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From a Bucs forum...
"From what I've seen of Howard in my all-22 viewings of our passing game, I do not agree with Arians. Howard is not getting regularly jammed or focused by the defense. He gets clean releases all the time. Nor do we draw up plays that are designed to go his way. He's an afterthought in the passing game who is most often used as a sixth offensive lineman. Very rarely is he the primary read, and very rarely is he the prime focus of the defense. Defenses are selling out versus Evans and Godwin, as they rightly should. If Brate is in the game and we're in the red zone, defenses focus him alot, as they should. But Howard? No way. He's getting single covered by backers, which is a matchup we should be expoliting. We aren't. There are opportunities to get Howard the ball if we so chose to do so, especially given the focus our othere receivers get. But we don't because reasons and therefore."
"We knew Arians's scheme uses tight ends as blockers, not receivers. It was plain as day based on his time in Arizona. He liked guys like Jermaine Gresham and Darren Fells who were excellent blockers but moved like dump trucks. He rarely threw to them, and made no obvious efforts to find more dynamic weapons at the position. The optimists assumed he'd change that based on what he was inheriting here. So far, they've been wrong. He wants three/four receivers on the field who can all beat single coverage, and he wants tight ends who can block enough for the QB to find them. Same thing with backs. His backs need to block. It's why Barber is still playing so much and Dare is coming in on 3rd down. His wideouts are the stars of the show, the rest block."
"From what I've seen of Howard in my all-22 viewings of our passing game, I do not agree with Arians. Howard is not getting regularly jammed or focused by the defense. He gets clean releases all the time. Nor do we draw up plays that are designed to go his way. He's an afterthought in the passing game who is most often used as a sixth offensive lineman. Very rarely is he the primary read, and very rarely is he the prime focus of the defense. Defenses are selling out versus Evans and Godwin, as they rightly should. If Brate is in the game and we're in the red zone, defenses focus him alot, as they should. But Howard? No way. He's getting single covered by backers, which is a matchup we should be expoliting. We aren't. There are opportunities to get Howard the ball if we so chose to do so, especially given the focus our othere receivers get. But we don't because reasons and therefore."
"We knew Arians's scheme uses tight ends as blockers, not receivers. It was plain as day based on his time in Arizona. He liked guys like Jermaine Gresham and Darren Fells who were excellent blockers but moved like dump trucks. He rarely threw to them, and made no obvious efforts to find more dynamic weapons at the position. The optimists assumed he'd change that based on what he was inheriting here. So far, they've been wrong. He wants three/four receivers on the field who can all beat single coverage, and he wants tight ends who can block enough for the QB to find them. Same thing with backs. His backs need to block. It's why Barber is still playing so much and Dare is coming in on 3rd down. His wideouts are the stars of the show, the rest block."
