Emeka Egbuka Tells Kay Adams He’s A Lucky Man To Be With Bucs
September 25th, 2025
Emeka Egbuka celebrates making a one-handed catch against Sauce Gardner in the Bucs’ 29-27 win over the Jets.
Who doesn’t enjoy a “psyched” Kay Adams? Especially when she’ interviewing Bucs rookie receiver Emeka Egbuka.
Yesterday, Egbuka had a chat with Adams on her weekday FanDuel TV show, “Up and Adams.” There, Adams got Egbuka to talk about his sick one-handed catch against the Jets. Overall, Egbuka said his catch was, on a 0-10 scale, a five. He said he’s had better in practices. But in a “game situation… it is up there.”
Egbuka said Bucs quarterback Baker Mayfield’s pass was designed to let a receiver make a play.
“In the quarterback locker room, what he’s taught us is just to let me touch the ball,” Egbuka said. “To put [the ball] in a spot where I can go up and make a play. That’s exactly what he did.
“It was the perfect location for me to do that.”
Adams started needling Egbuka about how Mayfield was mocking Egbuka for disrespecting one of his passes by catching it with one hand.
Egbuka, smiling, said his response was, “You’ve got to put it in a better spot. Put it where I can just use two hands.”
Adams told Egbuka that Mayfield is the luckiest quarterback because of all the receivers he has to target. Egbuka said, no, he’s the lucky one because he landed with an NFL team with a quarterback like Mayfield.
“Just to be able to have that wealth of knowledge [to lean on] and play for someone who’s like, such a firecracker on the field, like just at the helm of our offense, it’s hard not to be motivated when you’re working with Baker,” Egbuka said. “So I think having that kind of energy and that fire and that passion kind of just makes us all go a little bit harder.
“And as a rookie coming in, you kind of need that to be able to give you that confidence, that you know you can go out here and do it.”
And now, Egbuka, a rookie, may be the Bucs’ No. 1 receiver until Mike Evans returns. Joe hopes offensive coordinator Josh Grizzard doesn’t make the same mistake Dave Canales did two years ago and try to take Chris Godwin out of his comfort zone at slot where he dominates.
Emeka Egubka is gonna be a problem for the league… 😳
— Round Three (@roundthreepod) September 21, 2025
September 25th, 2025 at 9:17 am
We’ve got some good stuff cookin’
September 25th, 2025 at 9:28 am
That was a perfectly-placed ball against almost perfect coverage resulting in a perfect catch. It was a thing of beauty. He doesn’t play like a rookie!
September 25th, 2025 at 9:58 am
Hopefully Otton will be a target against the Eagles.
September 25th, 2025 at 10:03 am
Am I the only one concerned that he has dropped two important fourth quarter passes in back to back weeks. Other than that he looks good, but still has work to do.
September 25th, 2025 at 10:32 am
bucfan the slant was a bit behind him, and i think he caught 8 of 10 or something even with that drop. the deep one was the outlier imo. i doubt the quarter was a factor on the deep one because this last game he made that same catch pretty much on finl drive
September 25th, 2025 at 10:37 am
I was more concerned with the two easy drops by Evans. Hess guy we need on the field especially in the red zone.
September 25th, 2025 at 10:37 am
Bucfan
ME13 dropped two, right on his hands too.
Mike can make the hardest catches, but the easy ones have given him trouble
September 25th, 2025 at 10:57 am
Bucfan … Like every rookie, yes he does ‘still have work to do’. I’m impressed though that he’s caught 14 of 21 (66.7%), with 3 of those for TDs and 9 for first downs. The only WR doing better than that is Shep who’s having a very good year IMO … 11 of 15 (73.3%) with 9 first downs in there out of his 11 catches. That’s pretty clutch.
Interestingly BTW, Baker is down about 10% this year on his completion percentage (71.4% last season versus 61.6% this season). Our RBs this season are 18-for-18 in the passing game, and if you subtract them & just look at the rest (WRs & TEs), Baker’s completion percentage falls to 53%.
When you look at those WRs & TEs though, can see why it’s down. ME13’s catching 51.9% of this targets (he’s been heavily covered, but has given us 140 yds, 1 TD & 10 first downs). Miller is catching 33.3%; Tez Johnson 0%. Otton’s catching 42.9%; Durham 0%. Be nice to get Godwin & McMillan & Evans back.
September 25th, 2025 at 11:11 am
We are lucky to have him.
September 25th, 2025 at 11:25 am
Emeka gives Aqualung the warms.
September 25th, 2025 at 11:34 am
Bucfan, I’m no football whiz like DR. I listen to Bucs Radio so the videos I see are highlights. I can count at least 2 EE2 receptions from Feisty Bake that were so perfectly timed and caught (one for a TD), that it looked like telepathy. That’s nothing short of amazing between a veteran QB and veteran WRs. This is between a very good, smart veteran QB and a ROOKIE WR. Not sure what you can call it?? Emeka, this long time, long suffering Bucs fan is beyond thrilled and tickled pink that you signed with us!! Words fail me. EE2, along with Shep, Otton, White and Bucky, will take the pressure off CG14. That also includes the temptation for the DB to take a dirty, season ending injury causing shot at CG14. Gooooo Bucs, firecracker Bake and krewe, 4-0!!!
September 25th, 2025 at 11:36 am
Where’s Kenton Smith?
Hey, Kenton, didn’t you volunteer to keep Kay away from our players to avoid distracting them? Man, come one, don’t lay down on the job. I’ve still got an old vid cam ready to go as well.
September 25th, 2025 at 11:46 am
Looking back, this Egbuka pick might be Licht’s best pick.
Especially in 5 years or so depending on what happens this year.
Considering what happened with McMillan and ME13 already hurt, the pick is simply genius.
Zig when people think you are gonna zag.
This guy is winning Offensive rookie of the year plain and simple
September 25th, 2025 at 11:49 am
Tez would be at 100% and Baker a little higher and 1 td more if he didn’t get so aroused when Tez was open wider than a bridge tunnel.
September 25th, 2025 at 11:51 am
Well it looks like it was just me be pessimistic then and nobody else agrees. I want him to be great, but am only about 80% sold at this point.
September 25th, 2025 at 11:55 am
To your point Billy Bucco, I was surprised at Kay (don’t call me Dorothy) Adams’ comment about “all the receivers (Baker) has to target.”
I’m certain she wans’t referencing Ryan Miller, the Johnson brothers and Shephard. He won’t be able to target “the primary 4” all at once until at least week 11 it seems. Shoot, if we can just get 3 of the big 4 on the field at the same time it’d be a medical achievement apparently!
September 25th, 2025 at 2:34 pm
Confidence is key…. At this level it’s psychology that makes or breaks players and teams.
EE is right… He’s very fortunate to land in Tampa
September 25th, 2025 at 5:02 pm
The Eagles will have trouble game planning. Because of all the injuries and wrecked OL the Bucs have had to struggle to get er done. But they’ve done it and with some variety. Griz is off to a solid start IMHO. Not perfect but good.
Some poster here though said that Todd calls the plays which is kind of amazing since another poster says Todd doesn’t have enough time to be HC and DC and now another poster is saying he’s doing the OC’s job. This is what I’m talking about with today’s favorite buzzwords…Toddderangement Syndrome.
With ME gone how do the Eagles game plan? Is EE not the true #1 this week until CG gets to test his ankle and start to produce at the level he can?
Shepherd has even emerged as a weapon.
If Wirfs is REALLY back full strength that means the Eagles have to worry about Bucky/White and the running game. Bottom line is WE do not know what the offense if going to look like and neither do they.