Breaking news: the general manager and head coach of an NFL team say they really love their franchise quarterback. Shocking!
That was the message Dirk Koetter and Jason Licht spread at their NFL Scouting Combine talks. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers love their quarterback. He’s everything they expected, and they’re very happy with him as the face of their franchise.
Mostly, they were reacting to Winston’s sexist remarks last week. They said, as Winston did, that he just chose the wrong words — fairly standard PR deflection, and somewhat odd given that the controversy was over the content of the message rather than the form.