Luke Goedeke Said He Hates Underwear Football Because He Can’t Hold
June 16th, 2025
Looks forward to grabbing pads.
Underwear football is mostly behind us!
When the Bucs broke minicamp last week, it marked the end of underwear football season. Yay!
Starting usually with the fourth or fifth day of training camp practice, the pads can come on. Then, the Bucs (and all teams) are practicing real football.
Bucs right tackle Luke Goedeke said last week he has a particular disdain for underwear football. It gets under his skin because, he said, offenses are at a disadvantage.
“It’s tough,” Goedeke said. “Right now, we’re basically in underwear trying to block someone. I would say defenses definitely have a huge advantage right now, because when we get the pads on, O-linemen have much more to grab and everything like that.
“Our jerseys are so loose [that defenses] can just push-pull the daylights out of us.”
As Joe has stated many times over the years, it is virtually impossible in underwear football to get any sort of read on line play because guys cannot hit. Even Bucs coach Todd Bowles has said a few times there’s little to gain in underwear football for linemen.
“[I’m] really working on eyes and hands and everything, just trying to work on fundamentals and build our craft,” Goedeke explained what he gets out of underwear football. “I mean, me specifically, just really working on my hand usage and just landing my punches better and being consistent kicking through the punch and everything in which this is a great opportunity to do that.”
But as far as real football, Goedeke’s just glad underwear football season is over and it won’t be long before Goedeke can blast some rookie piece of camp meat.