Too many silly penalties.
Luke Goedeke has become one of the better right tackles in the game. That’s fantastic. And as long as he stays healthy, he’s going to bank quite a bit of Team Glazer loot come March.
Now it’s time for Goedeke to work on his head. And no, Joe isn’t referencing the nasty concussion last year that cost him four games.
Joe is talking about Goedeke being smart.
A lot of NFL players need various methods to get themselves prepared to play. Some guys hatch fake narratives and then take to Twitter, frothing at the mouth about how no one respects them when in fact no one disrespects them. The huffing and puffing on social media is all ghosts and goblins nonsense. Kwon Alexander was notorious for this.
But hey, whatever works to get motivated.
Goedeke’s motivation seems to be that he needs to be the Bucs’ version of an NHL enforcer. The black hat dude. The guy who will come charging into a scrum to set things straight.
It’s good that the Bucs have such a guy. But does this get to Goedeke’s head? Joe brings this up because, per handicapper turned stathead Warren Sharp, Goedeke is one of the most penalized players in the game.
Per Sharp’s list below, the top offenders are offensive tackles. Ah, ha! These guys are holding. Not Goedeke.
Last year, of the nine penalties opponents accepted against Goedeke, six were false starts. That’s just dumb.
There is no excuse for a false start. Of all the dumb things a player can do, that’s at the top of the list, or bottom of the list depending on your point of view.
Not knowing the count is head-up-your-arse football, that’s all there is to it. Joe doesn’t know if Goedeke has revenge on his mind to blast someone across the line for payback that causes him to lose his focus.
Joe saw last year in the playoff loss to Washington how a silly five-yard penalty can really screw up a team.
So for Goedeke to take that next step to becoming an elite right tackle, he’s got to start focusing on the task at hand and knock off these dumb false starts.
most accepted penalties last 2 yrs:
31 – Jawaan Taylor (KC-OT)
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26 – Laremy Tunsil (WAS-OT)
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22 – Ronnie Stanley (BAL-OT)
21 – Ikem Ekwonu (CAR-OT)
20 – Dion Dawkins (BUF-OT)
20 – Garett Bolles (DEN-OT)
20 – Spencer Brown (BUF-OT)
19 – Luke Goedeke (TB-OT)
18…
— Warren Sharp (@SharpFootball) May 9, 2025