Baker Mayfield “Moved Around Perfectly”
November 28th, 2025
Expect Buccaneers franchise quarterback Baker Mayfield to start Sunday against the woeful Cardinals, losers of eight of their last nine games.
Mayfield is dealing with a sprained left shoulder but made great progress this week and “moved around perfectly” today, per Todd Bowles.
So it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know Mayfield will be back on the field Sunday from the opening kickoff at The Licht House. Mayfield left Sunday night’s game at halftime, turning the ball over to uninspiring Teddy Bridgewater, who got his first legitimate backup QB action of the season.
Now does this mean Mayfield will be close to 100 percent on Sunday? That’s 100 percent unclear.
November 28th, 2025 at 1:15 pm
It’s not his throwing arm so I am sure he will be okay. The smartest move Bowles had all season was to pull him after that atrocious first half and not risk getting him hurt even more
November 28th, 2025 at 1:40 pm
Playing against the Bucs right now is just what an ailing team needs to get back on track…
Hopefully I’m wrong, but I see 6-6 in our future.
November 28th, 2025 at 1:44 pm
Hopefully, he can continue to make those 3 yard tosses on 3rd & 5……
November 28th, 2025 at 2:38 pm
Moving around is not the concern. We need his scrambling/running ability and if he can’t take a hit…he’s not as effective.
November 28th, 2025 at 3:00 pm
We will know right away if he is actually healthy or not.
While Baker is an astronomical upgrade over Bilgewater, it likely is not enough.
The wide open Swiss cheese worst pass defense in the NFL is going to sink the ship again.
There is no way to overcome such a glaring weakness and we do not have a HC or DC capable of fixing it.
Fire Bowles immediately after this loss.
November 28th, 2025 at 3:04 pm
We have REALLY lowered the bar for a ” franchise QB” is ….but if course he will play against Brissett and the 3-8 Cardinals. Funny thing is, his 3 years here he is below.500 outside the division, vs great,good, average and poor teams. But this should be a automatic W. If they win 9-6 he will go down on Bucs lore. If the streaky journeyman plays well as journeyman do from time to time, his fans will try to put him in Canton at halftime. If he sucks because that’s what he’s been most of his career, he can fall on being ” hurt”
November 28th, 2025 at 3:25 pm
“Moved around perfectly”.
WTF does that mean???
I mean, pardon my french, but seriously.
The guy can move around perfectly, but if his shoulder isn’t properly and completely healed it doesn’t mean squat the first time it takes a serious hit.
We all get it that Baker’s the kind of guy who would drag himself onto the field with one hand if he had a broken arm and two broken legs. That kind of Never Say Die spirit is why the locker room and so many fans respect him.
We still have a shot at the playoffs.
$crew this “moved around perfectly”. Either his shoulder is healed or it isn’t. That’s all that matters.
If it isn’t, Teddy and a solid performance by our defense will win this one.
We need a fully healed Baker for the playoffs.
November 28th, 2025 at 3:46 pm
Baker should sit. If the Bucs can’t beat the Cardinals then we got bigger problems.
November 28th, 2025 at 4:29 pm
If he is moving around perfectly thats a GREAT reason to leave him on the bench, A baker that feels he is fine is going to put himself in a position he could get seriously hurt. Only takes one sack for the end to the season
November 28th, 2025 at 4:54 pm
I would rest Baker. That shoulder is not even halfway healed. Sure, you can give him a shot. But why risk further injury? Be smart. Lets see what our Backup has.
November 28th, 2025 at 5:32 pm
Baker has certainly won a few games for the Bucs with his legs but too much emphasis is being placed on his running ability. How many times did Roger Stafford run with the ball? Or for that matter, any other QB on teams that recently beat the Bucs. Jordan Love had five carries for four yards and they still beat the Lions. The offensive line has to do better and give whoever our QB is time to throw. There seems to be no hope for the defense unless they can change the mind set and not play ten years off the receivers.
November 28th, 2025 at 7:26 pm
After his injury, Mayfield threw a laser through a keyhole to Tez for a touchdown. Later, the pain hit. As far as the passing game goes, I’m more concerned with finding receivers who can (a) get open and (b) fight for the completion. Lots of folks are dumping on Bridgewater, as if he were throwing to Jerry Rice and Kellen Winslow. I think they should start Baker, build a good lead, and let the three-headed beast of a running game go to work and run out the clock, with or without
Baker. As far as full healing, keep him playing until we qualify for the playoffs; then you can rest him for the postseason. Given the scedule, we should be able to clinch befor the last game or two.
November 28th, 2025 at 9:05 pm
I’m sure the owners will be talking if Todd loses this weekend, excellent excuses or not.
November 28th, 2025 at 9:47 pm
Why have Bridgewater on the team if the coaches don’t trust him at full healthy to play effectively? I mean they bounced Trask for the guy, so if Mayfieid is injured then why not play Teddy? Our easiest (only?) path to the postseason is to sweep the Panthers and Falcons, so I vote let Mayfield get closer to 100% for those games, and play Bowles’ hand picked backup QB vs Arizona
November 28th, 2025 at 11:16 pm
Announcing that Baker is good to go only does 2, maybe 3 things. It gets AZ to study Baker’s tendencies and not prepare for Bridgewater and it got Vegas to move its line. Seems like smoke and mirrors to me, I do think Baker at 50% is better than Bridgewater at 100% and this leads to the third thing I think this does, it might get any of the Bucs who still care and giving it their all a boost as they might know that if Bridgewater is in the game, the team is cornholed. Sad state of affairs when you do not trust your backup QB enough to get one win over a 3 win team. Just like the last agme in 2023 where Baker at 30% beat a bad Carolina team 9-0 because Bowles and Canales were afraid Trask would lose that agme and the division……
November 29th, 2025 at 6:38 am
Despite thier record Arizona is a decent team with an above average defense. The Bucs did not lose the last 3 games because of baker. They lost because of the 4th string guards could not prevent pressure up the middle and the defense has played poorly. If the Bucs are aiming to go deep in the playoffs while star players return from injury, they should rest Baker for a week to get him completely healthy. At the same time this will pressure the OL and the defense to play up to thier standard and win the game without Baker. If they cannot do this at home vs Arizona, they are going nowhere anyway.
November 29th, 2025 at 9:29 am
I swear most of the commentators on here are filled with estrogen and weakness.
I’m with my Buccaneers 100%!
Go Bucs!
November 29th, 2025 at 9:46 am
We still need to do better than Teddy Bongwater. Scour the waiver wires, CFL rosters, practice,squads, UFL rosters, and free agents.