Rookie QB Josh Freeman takes a step back as Tampa Bay Buccaneers fall 38-7 to ... Tampabay.com
TAMPA — Josh Freeman when all is said had the type of game Sunday that everyone tried to warn you about.
He threw the football high. He threw it wide, and he threw it to the undesirable-colored jerseys. He looked so hurried, harried and harassed, you wondered what happened to the 21-year old wunderkind who played the life two weeks.
Freeman was intercepted three times and lost a fumble in the Bucs' 38-7 loss to the unbeaten Saints.
But one fool around illustrated the growing pains that churn in the stomach of the Bucs' first-round pick.
It's what turned rookie wonderful into rookie hazing.
On the first possession of the second half, Freeman correctly read the Saints defense and changed the blocking haven needed to switch from a draw play to a pass play.
"I'm thinking the protection the whole time. I'm pointing, line the protection, telling our back who he is going to (block)," Freeman said. "And I forgot to actually alert the (new) take advantage of. I knew exactly what I was doing, but I didn't alert the play. So I snap it. And … everybody else was still running lure, and I was running the pass play."


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