With Bucs training camp quickly approaching, the PewterReport.com staff asks – and answers – 15 critical camp questions that need to be addressed this August, as Tampa Bay prepares to embark on the 2019 season. Over the next 15 days, PewterReport.com will offer up its thoughts on the topics that the Bucs will need to sort out in order for the team to be successful this season and possibly compete for a long-awaited playoff berth.

These are the storylines the PewterReport.com staff will be following closely in camp, and we invite our readers to share their thoughts as well in the comment section.

Can Arians fix Winston’s turnover issues?

Yes.

Well hopefully for the organization’s sake. And this question won’t be answered fully until the season ends in December. Then the team can take a look at the full body of work and know what they have and what their future will be moving forward with – or without –Winston. However, the answer does start in training camp.

Winston’s penchant for throwing ill-timed interceptions have hurt the Buccaneers over the course of his first four seasons. But with Arians now in charge, decision making should improve. Arians didn’t name himself the “Quarterback Whisperer,” that moniker came with his work – and success – with players like Ben Roethlisberger, Peyton Manning, Andrew Luck and Carson Palmer.

Bucs head coach Bruce Arians – Photo by: Cliff Welch/PR

As late as Thursday, Arians praised Winston’s work ethic and even said they had to tell him to slow down some — to not over work. And not even Winston’s harshest critics have ever questioned his desire or his work habits. The criticism comes from his turnovers, something that has plagued him at times, going back to his redshirt junior year at Florida State. Since coming into the league only Blake Bortles has had more turnovers than Winston in that time. But this coaching still will do everything they can and have a proven history of helping quarterbacks excel, especially Arians.

With a competent defense and a staff pushing Winston to make better decisions with the ball in his hands, Winston’s turnover numbers should drop. When that number goes down, the Bucs opportunities for wins should go up. Also with Winston knowing his defense should be better in 2019, the pressure or the need to feel like the offense has to score every drive, will eliminate Winston taking as many chances as he does.

And finally, Winston has a coach who is squarely in his corner and believes in him without question. Former head coach Dirk Koetter admitted he actually preferred Marcus Mariota in the 2015 NFL Draft. While that isn’t to say Koetter held that against Winston, it still had to have created some friction at times between the two. That isn’t the case with Arians, who seems genuinely excited to have the former FSU standout under center for his team, and also recently stated part of the reason he took the Bucs job was because he believed in Winston.