Baker Mayfield Is Playing Above The Rim
October 15th, 2025
Excellent last two weeks.
Baker Mayfield has been on an absolute heater the past couple of weeks.
Looking at Mayfield’s passing chart from the 49ers game, it hit Joe: Mayfield only had six incompletions against San Francisco. That’s damn good.
When you combine his numbers against the 49ers (17 of 23) with what Mayfield put up against Seattle the week prior (29 of 33), missing just four passes, Mayfield is on a tear. He has connected on 46 of his last 56 passes. That’s throwing at an 82 percent completion percentage!
And that’s with no Mike Evans, no Chris Godwin, no Bucky Irving and almost a half-game without Emeka Egbuka.
Hell yeah, that’s MVP data!
Sunday against San Francisco, Mayfield had a Liam Coen-type day. Only two passes he threw were past the Coen Line (20 yards from the line of scrimmage). And both were for touchdowns!
Joe is impressed.
Todd Bowles is all of us watching this play 🤯 pic.twitter.com/Vcwwx7LWnI
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October 15th, 2025 at 9:14 am
Interesting how few passes knocked down by opposing lineman. Has Grizzard changed his delivery or tweaked positioning of his feet?
October 15th, 2025 at 9:17 am
Liam who?
October 15th, 2025 at 9:17 am
He is playing better than anyone ever has for this franchise. This is unbelievable.
October 15th, 2025 at 9:23 am
‘Born Again’ Baker will keep this team competitive for the next 10 years because of WHO he is as a person and a Player on the field and off of it. We are truly Blessed as Bucs fans to have him on this team. Go Bucs!!
October 15th, 2025 at 9:28 am
Baker is living the dream right now. I hope it continues right through the Super Bowl. Take a few months off after and do it again.
October 15th, 2025 at 9:40 am
We need San Fran to beat the Falcons this week.
October 15th, 2025 at 9:54 am
HILARIOUS MOMENT AFTER THAT BOMB DOWN THE MIDDLE TO TEZ
Did you all see the clip of Tez after the catch? They started chanting “M-V-P” and Tez asked his teammates on the bench why they were calling him the MVP?
Tez has a hilarious quote. I don’t want to spoil it. It is so funny.
JOE – Go find it and post it.
October 15th, 2025 at 9:54 am
I know Feisty Bake and the entire offense, coaches and players, are putting their collective heads together on the subject of Aidan Hutchinson. They’ve already seen that monster last season. You are unreal as well as smart, #6. You guys go up to Motown and sneak a win. Go Bucs!!
October 15th, 2025 at 10:20 am
I looked at the INTs that Bake had last year, and quite a few came from Bake staring down his target. This year he’s looking off DBs with his eyes – and this also works with the DL. The DL guys are also looking at Bakes eyes to bat balls down. Bake is looking off the entire defense and we’re him balling.
With all the hype about Baker, we need to find a chip to put on his shoulder. He likes that chip to get him ultra-motivated. Anybody got a chip for him?
October 15th, 2025 at 10:44 am
That second one he threw behind Emeka would have gone for 6. He only needed to beat the safety, who was not positioned to run him down. Otherwise, an incredible day.
October 15th, 2025 at 11:47 am
Baker is so damn tough too. He took that shot on the Kameron Johnson TD, bounced back up and celebrated. He’s willing to play through some pain, in fact, he probably enjoys it. I see now why he’s always on the smelling salts because he seems to need a little punch in the mouth to get going. The dude is unreal when facing adversity, I have faith that when we are behind, Baker will bring us back and at least make it interesting. Good to be a Bucs fan these days, I’m wearing my gear loud and proud up here in the far north of Alaska
October 15th, 2025 at 12:01 pm
And, Baker threw two stinkers in a row at Emeka when he was open that would have been completions. Also almost threw a pick right after Warner was injured. That’s when we thought, uh oh is this the game we see a reversion to the mean?
He was almost perfect after that.
October 15th, 2025 at 12:30 pm
Can’t believe I’m writing this, but the over-the-top media gushing over baker bugs me. I suppose I relished praising him for years when most didn’t see what was possible. Good for my ego😊 we all like to be right. Now everyone likes baker ! The rest of you bandwagoners ruined it! Hell, even cowherd praises baker daily! Its ok.. I’ll get over it😊
October 15th, 2025 at 12:41 pm
i’ve also always thought that the “midget” rhetoric around baker was dumb af, like that was the reason his passes sometimes got batted down or tipped, or why they didn’t pass a lot over the middle. he’s been “undersized” his whole life, and won the heisman and went #1 in the draft, he had no issues with deep passes down the middle and never struggled to see the field over his oline.
6’5″ quarterbacks have passes batted down/tipped too. it happens.
maybe some of you think that he grew 3″ over the summer or something??
October 15th, 2025 at 1:34 pm
If nukes aren’t flying before this season is over, and we get to play out the full season, I definitely think we can make a Superbowl run.
October 15th, 2025 at 2:26 pm
Fabulous clip of Bowles showing some real emotion – and then calmly saying, “Okay, next play.”
Usually, he only shares the last part with the fans. But, the two parts together are surely a part of why the team seems to regard him so highly.
October 15th, 2025 at 2:28 pm
“The Coen line”. Not bad.
October 15th, 2025 at 2:29 pm
Great graphic. That sort of play calling force the DBs to be ready to come up and makes them more vulnerable to those occasional blown coverages that Baker is using to put stakes in their hearts.
October 15th, 2025 at 2:48 pm
And that’s the Todd Bowles our team sees. He has that incredible laugh and joy all over his face. We don’t get too many glimpses of emotion from Todd, but when we do they are pure happiness.
October 15th, 2025 at 3:47 pm
He getting better as the season progresses. Its great to see. What I like best from Baker these past few weeks is how he’s not putting the ball in harms way but still staying aggressive. He’s not hitting DBs in the hands, he either overthrows or throws a dot.
He’s playing at a MVP level.