I'm first going to give credit to an un-remembered Bucs poster who pointed this podcast out. Thanks.
Second, I'm going to caveat my amazement - if this was discussed already here apologies because I've never seen it nor heard these details mentioned. I've neither seen this on this forum nor (more importantly) seen any Bucs media discuss this.
Third, I haven't followed Chris Landry closely but I've never seen or read anything by him that makes me think he would blatantly lie about this. But, I do not know him.
*edit* As Mark Cook first pointed out, Landry has a history of plagiarism. I'm taking that one on the chin. Also, google it - it's both incredibly unprofessional/unethical and somewhat comical. The other side of this is that a lot of Landry's allegations care repeatedly hinted at in media reports from ~2014. But Landry's plagiarism past then raises the question: Is he telling the truth, backed up by numerous reports, or is he plagiarizing these reports and making it seem like his own sources?
First 15 minutes (from June): https://landryfootball.com/podcast-jameis-winston-suspension/
Chris Landry says, from his own personal knowledge going back to Winston in HS as well as NFL sources, that Winston has had significant issues starting in high school and many issues at FSU are not known publicly. These includes issues with young girls, coaches and teachers. That he had a massive problem there that continued in college and has never changed. It was bad enough in high school that a number of coaches took him off their recruiting boards entirely. This included Nick Saban.
Winston was coddled and protected from the consequences (including legal and criminal) in both high school and college because people did not want to ruin his future (and potentially personally benefited from it).
He had not just off field issues in terms of stealing but attitude issues and is very arrogant.
Were about 8 or 9 instances at Florida State that never reached the light of day. How does Landry know this? NFL teams have their own investigative arms where he has contacts. Things that just aren’t criminal, are not just being picked up and questioned by the police, things that aren’t criminal because you’re not charged. These events were corroborated, there were multiple situations where Jameis was clearly involved in doing things with girls that were on and off campus that were inappropriate (as is the case in a lot of college towns). They were either swept under the rug or didn't reach the prosecution threshold, FSU worked hard to keep things quiet. Apparently there were payoffs. Tallahassee does a really good job (starting with Bobby Bowden) of making things go away.
Why did the Bucs take him?
Landry says he doesn't know more than the Bucs - they knew all this stuff. They knew, they liked the player (they mis-evaluated him). The Bucs are not going to say "We liked the player but he’s a bad guy and we took him anyway" they’re going to say "We did our due diligence and we’re comfortable with him."
Bucs coaches Landry knows with the Bucs told him there was some sketchy behavior with Jameis but nothing that got him into legal trouble or made the media.
Jameis doesn’t have a bad work ethic, but he has a focus problem as a player. “He’s physically there, but mentally and emotionally he’s not there.”
“My surprise to this point is that there hasn’t been a [serious] incident.” Harder to get away with things in a pro town vs college. Landry doesn’t think, doesn’t know but doesn't think, there’s anything serious that’s been swept under the rug other than the Uber incident.
Landry: Some people do bad things because they’re immature, and some people do bad things because they’re bad people. Winston is a bad person.
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