Baker Mayfield Offers His Take On Bucs Offense In Buffalo
November 20th, 2025
Improved offensive focus.
A week ago after dropping a game to New England, Baker Mayfield had sharp words for his teammates in the locker room as he scolded them for a lack of a killer instinct.
Bucs coach Todd Bowles not only agreed with Mayfield but stood up for Mayfield.
Then on Sunday, Bowles demonstrated he was not fully with Mayfield by punting when his offense needed just two yards to convert midway through the fourth quarter while the Bucs’ running game was rolling.
So much for the killer instinct.
Buffalo quickly scored and that was your ballgame.
Yesterday in his weekly press conference, Mayfield was asked for his view on how the offense played Sunday.
“I think there was a difference mentally,” Mayfield said. “Anytime you run the ball like that, guys are locked in — they’re doing their job.”
The Bucs had their best running game of the season with 202 yards. Sean Tucker himself had two rushing touchdowns and 106 yards total. Both he and Rachaad White averaged over five yards a carry.
For that to happen, Mayfield said every player on offense had to be dialed in.
“That takes everybody, not just the offensive line,” Mayfield said. “Obviously, they played extremely well to run the ball over 200 yards, but I think the message was well-received. We just didn’t make enough plays when we needed to.”
The Bucs are going to need every play and more (bunches of takeaways) if they want to hang with the Rams in Los Angeles Sunday night.
The Rams are red hot and as we painfully witnessed the past two games, the Bucs’ defense is hot, alright. A hot steaming pile of…
November 20th, 2025 at 9:05 am
The Bills run defense is among the worst in the league. Attacking their weakness was working, until we stopped doing it for no obvious reason.
November 20th, 2025 at 9:12 am
…a hot steaming pile of a Todd Bowel movement.
November 20th, 2025 at 9:59 am
I don’t think we stopped for no obvious reason. When we hit 4th and 2 that last drive, our 3 plays before that were, run 2 yds, pass, incompletion, punt. The runs were not penetrating at that point. I don’t think Baker had confidence a run would pick up 2 yards in that situation, or he would have checked off the pass play.
I didn’t like the punt, but also understand that our BEST chance was to not give Josh Allen the ball on the 39yard line. It would have been a haunted TD and end of game. Punt, stop them, which we did except for the dumb penalty by Parrish. Score
These guys aren’t idiots, but a lot of you treat them as if they are
November 20th, 2025 at 10:12 am
The long field goal was off the table because of the wind so yea go for it
November 20th, 2025 at 11:19 am
Hey Mister Special Teams Coach Thomas whatever your name is, can you pull your head out of your rear end and see if you can come up with a way to not allow 234 kick return yards? You should have been fired and would have been if it wasn’t for Coach Bowles and his loyalty program. If you need advice on covering kickoffs, call up Keith Armstrong, he can help you, he sucked too, but amazing to say, was better than your useless …
November 20th, 2025 at 11:24 am
Bowles never trusts the offense no matter who the QB is. Should’ve asked Baker his thoughts on Todd taking him off the field when they only needed a couple of yards. But hey, at least Bowles isn’t scared to go for 2 in the 3rd quarter with one of the worst redzone offenses.
November 20th, 2025 at 12:02 pm
“The Bucs had their best running game of the season with 202 yards. Sean Tucker himself had two rushing touchdowns and 106 yards total. Both he and Rachaad White averaged over five yards a carry.”
This was the biggest difference in the offense in the Bills game compared to the offense in the 2-3 games leading up to the Bills game.
Some of us have been clamoring for weeks to lead with the run game, it’s simpler for the OL w/o having to overexpose them to too many pass pro reps considering the shuffling we’ve had to do up front.
And it’s not just getting takeaways, we’ve got to max them out.
November 20th, 2025 at 12:19 pm
Everyone runs against Buffalo, it really doesn’t mean a thing.
You can hope to have success, but don’t expect it, and don’t build the gameplan around running for over 5 yards a carry – then being shocked when the Rams aren’t the Bills.