Jameis Winston: We Fight For Each OtherMatt Stein Sports Talk Florida Oct 28, 2015 6:21pm 
video linkJameis Winston had what offensive coordinator Dirk Koetter described as his best game yet in Week 7 at Washington, but the loss doesn't hurt him any less because of it."Absolutely not, a loss is a loss," he said. "I look at winning and losing; a loss is a loss and a win is a win. You can swap it over and say if I played a terrible game, but we won - a win is a win."Winston finished with career-highs in passing yards (297), completion percentage (72.4) and passer rating (128.1), but more importantly, he finished turnover free for the second consecutive week.We've heard week after week from Winston that he had to get better controlling the football in order for the team to have a chance to win, and he's doing just that. The rest of the guys around him, though, are where the frustration is at now.In particular, it was penalties that killed the Buccaneers more than anything this past Sunday. Any time you have 16 penalties as a team, it's going to be hard to overcome them and come out on top, especially when four were unnecessary roughness penalties that should have been avoided all together.According to Jameis, though, the aggression shown by Ali Marpet, Gosder Cherilus and William Ghlolston stems from the fact that the team is out there fighting for each other and doesn't want anyone else to try to "intentionally hurt" one of their teammates."Not only are we playing with each other, we're playing for each other. I love my teammates. We love each other and we don't want anyone to try and intentionally hurt one another," he said. "It's just competing. Some of those calls can go any way, it's just who they see. I believe it was a flop."The loss of both Vincent Jackson and Louis Murphy didn't help the Bucs chances either, but according to Winston, that didn't get the team down."When we lost Vincent and [Murphy] in the game - those are valuable assets to our team - we didn't panic, we said, 'we have to pick up our brothers because that's who we fight for, those two mean that went down we have to lift them up.'Winston's presence as a leader in the game was also noted by two other wide receivers Wednesday in Mike Evans and Dontaee Dye.Evans said that Jameis showed the type of leader he can be by reiterating the fact that they had to finish strong and not let the Redskins come back, and even went as far as to say that he showed the talent he has to be "one of the best quarterbacks in the game."Dye noted much of the same, describing Winston as a "natural born leader" who "keeps everyone calm in the huddle and never overreacts about anything."Winston's ability to keep calm is undoubtedly going to help him progress in this league, and in the same light, the team will only continue to do much of the same if they keep battling for each other when the whistle sounds on Sunday.
