Baker Mayfield Says He Likes Early Contact
July 22nd, 2025
Some quarterbacks never want to get hit.
Baker Mayfield isn’t that dude.
Speaking to Pardon My Take recently, Mayfield’s aggressive nature and eagerness to block and to try to run over defenders came up.
“Do you have to run through someone’s face to like kind of wake up in a game? Do you have to get hit first?” Mayfield was asked.
“Sometimes, yeah. It feels real nice,” Mayfield replied. “And I mean real nice … til the next day.”
Mayfield even joked that a good hit can be arousing for him.
Meanwhile, the Bucs would love to see Mayfield be a little more cautious with his body. Bucs officials love his playing style, but they think he wouldn’t sacrifice the aggression by avoiding a greater share of content.
It’s all a lot of fun — until Kyle Trask gets in a game.
July 22nd, 2025 at 9:26 am
Aroused, like the Sage at a Hunter Mountain bagel shop during Octoberfest
July 22nd, 2025 at 9:31 am
A true dawg but he might want to call shotgun on the next few plays after that first good hit. I’m just sayin
July 22nd, 2025 at 9:49 am
I guess big hits to Baker arouse both Bake and the Trask mob
July 22nd, 2025 at 9:53 am
He seems to start games with a lot of adrenaline, sometimes with early over throws. An early run is good for him but I want him to avoid contact at the end of the run.
July 22nd, 2025 at 9:57 am
Mayfield the masochist, just get out of bounds and get ready for the next play little big man
July 22nd, 2025 at 10:24 am
Oh no. Now the other team is really going to go after him. Bake needs to keep being the moxie guy that keeps running out of harms way. We need him healthy!
July 22nd, 2025 at 11:24 am
Nothing against Baker but, we’ll actually be better when Trask plays
July 22nd, 2025 at 11:30 am
Smelling salts, smokeless tobacco during games and shotgunning beers during golf outings. How can you not like Bake?
July 22nd, 2025 at 12:19 pm
Good one, coco
July 22nd, 2025 at 12:20 pm
My favorite player to watch since Favre…guess that’s not much of a coincidence.
July 22nd, 2025 at 2:52 pm
Second Lieutenants believe they are bullet proof, Matadors believe the bull can’t see them behind the cape, big spending drunks believe the strippers really like them, Karma lurks where stupidity begins.
July 22nd, 2025 at 3:49 pm
JD, Second Lieutenants and matadors have been trained to do what most won’t. Their training is part of them but their nature is all of them. Doesn’t always work out. But they believe it will. Like the little train “I think I can”. And strippers sometimes do like the big spending drunks. Doesn’t make a QB stupid for liking that first big hit. Most QBs and most football players like that. I would, however, agree with you that karma is a batch.
July 22nd, 2025 at 4:30 pm
Kenton Smith: True, Second Lieutenants and Matadors , even some drunks at Alcoholics Anonymous are trained to know better , but with a certain percent it doesn’t take ,as far as Quarterbacks go ,in 2023 according to Sportrac , 22% of NFL Quarterbacks were lost to their teams for the season due to injuries , That’s one out of every five which cost their teams 151 million dollars and who knows what it might have cost the teams in wins! No one is doing their organization any good being reckless, Winning the Super Bowl, coming home alive, collecting the bulls ear, or keeping your money for someone who cares, should be enough of a thrill for anybody.
July 22nd, 2025 at 5:05 pm
Anything can happen for sure JD, Baker played a year at Texas Tech, 3 years at OU, and 7 years in the NFL so far. One serious injury but played out the year anyway. You’d be hard pressed to show me one QB in the game that can come near that kind of stay on the field durability. Anything can happen, sure, but odds are Trask won’t get much playing time as long as Baker is here.
July 22nd, 2025 at 5:35 pm
And JD. Evans and Godwin and Winfield and Dean are costing us a fortune. To not help us win a thing. It’s absolutely preposterous your innuendo that Baker plays reckless enough to risk injury. Just like those 4 players I just listed he’s playing football. Nothing more, nothing less. He may not play the way you think he ought to but I’m certain he doesn’t give a rat’s ass about that. He’s got bigger fish to fry. And right now I’m sure he’s got the griddle heating up.
July 22nd, 2025 at 5:50 pm
When an athlete/quarterback, plays half a season in the NFL with a fractured shoulder AND a completely torn labrum, and you aren’t smart enough to give him a little respect and call him “little big man” in a pitiful attempt to diminish him, it just proves you are the craven keyboarder you sound like you are.
July 22nd, 2025 at 6:50 pm
Now Boys , You are getting all huffy for nothing, I never mentioned any quarterback by name , it was ya’ll who filled in the blank . Of all the quarterbacks at all the levels of play ,what made you automatically jump to the defense of that particular quarterback? Did it hit too close to the truth?
July 22nd, 2025 at 6:57 pm
Maybe it was the title of the story I had just read. My bad.
July 22nd, 2025 at 7:00 pm
JD Still. Now that I think about it it looks like Joe is stirring up the shlt.
July 22nd, 2025 at 10:07 pm
That’s my quarterback
July 22nd, 2025 at 10:11 pm
*and it looks like he’ll have a matador starting the season at LT to “protect” him, so that’s a healthy attitude. He is gonna get hit.
July 23rd, 2025 at 12:54 am
Gus Swayze will be fine. He has a lot to prove this year.
July 23rd, 2025 at 8:18 am
lmao did y’all see ATLBuc said they’ll be better when Trask plays😂😂😂☠️🤡
July 23rd, 2025 at 8:25 am
Honestly, as a Baker transplant fan, I love the dude but this is just his puffery. He is a tough dude but his play is always a little more rough and a bit too timid for a while after he gets hit.