Kay Adams: Who Is More Valuable Than Baker Mayfield?
October 7th, 2025
All aboard!
Earlier this summer, the seductive Kay Adams of FanDuel TV was clearly driving the Bucs bandwagon.
Now? She’s the lead cheerleader for Baker Mayfield.
On her weekday show “Up and Adams,” Adams said she is at a loss for words to describe how much fun it is to watch Mayfield lead the Bucs to come-from-behind win after come-from-behind win like it’s no big deal.
“I’m running out of words to describe my affection for the play and the aura of Baker Mayfield,” Adams began. “I don’t know if there is a single player who has meant more to his team through the first five weeks of this season.”
Adams detailed Mayfield was so good he did something teams haven’t done against the Seahawks defense and Mike MacDonald. Mayfield made the Seahawks defense look pedestrian.
Or, as Adams said, MacDonald makes quarterbacks “look like me throwing against MacDonald.”
Except Mayfield did just that.
And Adams correctly pointed out Mayfield, despite his top-shelf play, has yet to have his full stable of receivers healthy.
Man, Joe thinks when that happens, Mayfield and the Bucs will really put on a show.
@upandadamsshow Has ANYONE in the NFL been more valuable to their team than Baker Mayfield this year? #nfl #tampabaybuccaneers #bakermayfield #superbowl ♬ original sound – Up & Adams Show with Kay Adams
October 7th, 2025 at 5:25 am
I wonder if Dorothy prefers a Riesling or if she’s more a buttery Chardonnay kinda gal?
October 7th, 2025 at 6:47 am
Baker proved them all wrong.
October 7th, 2025 at 7:11 am
Adams says she is “at a loss for words”. That’s OK by me. She measures her words because she’s so thoughtful and overall caring and kind. “look like me throwing against McDonald”. Oh Kay! And she’s so funny and pretty too! As far as her affection for Baker goes, maybe she can wait until the end of the season to go on about that. But she knows alot more about those things than I do. Because she’s so very capable at her job. Just such a very special person!
October 7th, 2025 at 7:28 am
@Leighroy: Well done. Dorothy Konopka.
October 7th, 2025 at 7:41 am
Calling Rod Munch…..Rod Munch come in please…….RodMunch, why have you gotten so shy?………It’s easy, RodMunch, just apologize, get a new screen name and you will be welcomed into the brotherhood of Baker…….Er, I mean the brotherhood of Bucs.
October 7th, 2025 at 7:57 am
Yawn.
October 7th, 2025 at 8:02 am
Baker has been a breath of fresh air.
I was pretty skeptical of how he got the starting job, but that wasn’t on him. If Bowles had just said Baker Mayfield was the projected starter from the geginning, I would have been fine with it. But Bowles staged a rake competition instead. I hate being lied to.
Bowles didn’t even need to lie at the time. He could have just said “I believe in Baker, and everyone else will too.”
But…so far as believing in Baker Mayfield, Bowles had great instincts. He had so much faith that he set aside his desire to build a defense for several years in order to make sure Baker haad everything he needed.
And then, in a year when he could have finally drafted a first rounder for the defense, he again set aside that eesire to get a top WR instead.
Yes, we NEED a better defense. No getting around that. But Mike Evens doesn’t have a lot of time left, and Godwin was an unknown. Could still be an unknown…though signs are pointing positive.
Mayfield is gold so far.
October 7th, 2025 at 8:09 am
Buccaneer Bonzai. Bowles didn’t stage a fake competition. If Trask had been a better QB I promise this organization would have started Trask.
October 7th, 2025 at 8:15 am
Not too unreasonable to think we’d be 0-5 with *any* other QB.
October 7th, 2025 at 8:18 am
Buccaneer Bonzai,
Whew……That’s a long way to get to your point: “ Mayfield is gold so far.”
Everyone except Rod Munch agrees with you!!!!
October 7th, 2025 at 8:38 am
Gipper Says:
October 7th, 2025 at 7:41 am
Calling Rod Munch…..Rod Munch come in please…….RodMunch, why have you gotten so shy?
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Not speaking up for Rod Munch. He is more than capable of doing that for himself. But hasn’t he already come out and acknowledged Baker is playing really well? Like a couple of weeks ago. Rod’s whole thing on Baker being a “choke artist” always struck me as something he was teasing people about. Hard for me to imagine that he actually felt that way. I mean it was so obviously absurd. Could be wrong but I never took that as him actually being serious. Just part of his schtick.
October 7th, 2025 at 8:48 am
they were severely shorthanded defensively hough. if excuse works for us, it works for them too.
October 7th, 2025 at 8:52 am
It’s been interesting and nice to see Baker grow into the player he is now. I definitely believed there was a competition for the starter spot when he got here, he came in and won it like he did the rest of the team and the fan base so I think we can put that to rest now. And even if Bowles was leaning in his favor was he wrong judging by the outcome? How bout some props to coach for being right?
He looks like he is playing with even more confidence this year, and he’s been great since he got here but this year there seems to be continuity with Grizz from last year, I think that helps the whole offense and may be a little over looked IMO.
October 7th, 2025 at 8:59 am
Durango 95,
Uh uh…….From the time Bucs signed Mayfield until it became obvious to everyone but Munch that Baker is an elite QB, he continued to rag on Baker. The problem is really his male fixation on Tom Brady. Until Munch takes the poster of Brady with his shirt off, down from his bedroom wall, Munch will never accept Baker. Munch was merciless to those of us who defended Baker from the beginning.
October 7th, 2025 at 9:02 am
Fist bump to Joe. Kay is an amazing looking lady. No doubt about it. And Baker is an amazing QB. Which is why I say Baker is the most entertaining QB this team has ever had. Ever. Bar none.Baker is a better QB today than Brady was in his 3rd season w/ our beloved Bucs.
Absolutely loved it when Baker was taunting Seahawks fans raising his arms up and down urging them to get louder. Challenging them to make more noise. He feeds off that stuff. Loved it. What a player, what an entertainer.
October 7th, 2025 at 9:09 am
Brady is season three was not only a below average QB (his rating was worse than Justin Fields) but an even worse offensive coordinator. Yes, that was Brady’s offense that he was running. There was no resemblence of Arians’ offense that Leftwich was supposedly in control of. Brady was the checkdown, smoke screen, don’t air it out until quarter number four King…. not the Brady of 2020 and 2021 when Arians was here and held him accountable. Baker was significantly better in 2023 than Brady was in 2022 and the stats, the results, and pretty much every possible metric that could be used, proves it. Baker of this year is on par or even better than Brady of 2021 or 2020 was. Brady never played as well with the Bucs as Baker is playing right now.
October 7th, 2025 at 9:28 am
MVP Todd Bowles. Under his tutelage, Baker will need 6000 yards and 50 TDs to secure double digit victories.
October 7th, 2025 at 9:29 am
Grizz deserves a lot of credit. First as QB coach, then as OC who took Coen’s offense and added the long ball!
October 7th, 2025 at 9:30 am
Durango95, that’s BS! He was and probably still is an unbeliever in Baker. He’s just biding his time just like so many others on this site as well as local and national media types just waiting and looking for that knock out punch.
Everyone is entitled to their opinion when it comes to the skill sets etc of a player but the one thing that is indisputable about Baker is his courage and guts. Some people love that about Baker but it is just those characteristics that some people can’t stand about him. In their eyes he’s too small to exhibit those qualities and that those qualities are reserved for the John Elway types. Rod is a small minded man and when he sees Baker’s bravado probably says to himself “who does that little punk think he is?”
October 7th, 2025 at 9:53 am
Here’s my vote for someone more valuable than Baker….Kay Adams.
October 7th, 2025 at 9:56 am
Seductive? Creepy as hell there Joe. Takes away from the fact she does
a hell of a job.
October 7th, 2025 at 10:16 am
I agree with Kay! No really I do! Of course I would agree with her on most anything she said, But thats beside the point….LOL
Go Bucs!
October 7th, 2025 at 11:10 am
Extend him now,, 3 years 45 a year , 90 guaranteed ,,, I wouldn’t wait until he is league MVP or a SB winner and wants 55 per year ,,,
Oh and GMF hasn’t been the same since Kay left