“Quarterback” Will Boost Baker Mayfield’s Profile; His Salary, Too?
May 13th, 2026
Quite a treat has been dropped in the laps of Bucs fans.
Baker Mayfield will be one of the featured QBs on this year’s edition of Quarterback on Netflix.
The first episode is scheduled for July 14. Past Quarterback series have been eight episodes each.
Get your popcorn ready.
This football and non-football look at NFL quarterbacks is good watch, especially in the dead of summer before training camp. It did wonders for Kirk Cousins’ profile and it should take Mayfield to new heights, as well. Also featured this season on Quarterback will be Joe Flacco, Cam Ward and Jayden Daniels.
Don’t confuse Quarterback with Hard Knocks. All the footage was shot during the 2025 season. (And Joe sure hopes Quarterback wasn’t a distraction that helped fuel the Bucs’ demise.)
Joe wonders if the boost in popularity Mayfield is sure to gain from Quarterback ultimately will boost his next contract. Mayfield’s current three-year contract ends after this coming season. If the Bucs are really going to give him an extension, it might behoove them to get it done before the show kicks off.
May 13th, 2026 at 9:02 pm
Personally I’m doing an LA Express deal and giving Baker the Steve Young treatment — that’s right, a lifetime deal! Except this one is worth at least $1 billion dollars! Also, while the Glazers weren’t willing to give Brady part of the team, I say Baker gets at least 10%. It’s only fair for the greatest of them all!
LETS GO BAKER!!!
May 13th, 2026 at 9:13 pm
Rod, what do you think it would cost to lock in Baker now for three more years, and how much do you think it will be if he has another season like 2024? Serious question; I don’t have a good sense of the $ involved.
May 13th, 2026 at 9:19 pm
Rod:
“…while the Glazers weren’t willing to give Brady part of the team…”
I know you’re being sarcastic, but if you think that part of what you said is true, please prove the discussion even happened, buddy 😉
May 13th, 2026 at 9:25 pm
JustVisiting, I think Baker is willing to give a little bit of a discount. He knows they’ve built around him, and if he wants them to be willing to keep doing that, he’ll lower the price. Kind of like Tom Brady did.
I could see $32-$34 million per year. He’s not going to want to break the team. And he’ll restructure at some point.
They probably have not done it yet so they can finish signing people and see what they have to work with…so probably after this season.
They can tag him if they jeed to, then work out a deal…but that will drive up the price.
May 13th, 2026 at 9:26 pm
If it takes this long to resign a quarterback then the bucs must draft a quarterback in the first round this year
May 13th, 2026 at 9:27 pm
They can follow him next year when hes in Arizona as a bridge to a highly drafted rookie en route to a 1-5 start. The ryan fitzpatrick arc has begun!
May 13th, 2026 at 9:28 pm
JustVisiting Says:
May 13th, 2026 at 9:13 pm
Rod, what do you think it would cost to lock in Baker now for three more years, and how much do you think it will be if he has another season like 2024? Serious question; I don’t have a good sense of the $ involved.
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If Baker had another 2024 year, it would mean Baker has had two extremely good years in three years, and you could at that point legitimately make the case that injuries caused all the issues we saw last year.
In that case I think he’d probably be close to $60M on a 4-year extension. Keep in mind how the cap keeps going up and up, so lets say it’s $58M – that would basically be about $50M last year. Just a best guess, obviously.
May 13th, 2026 at 9:31 pm
Thanks, BB. I definitely get rhe sense that Baker is driven by pride more than money, and I agree that he’s likely to give the Bucs a discount. My worry is that it cuts both ways and, if he feels disrespected by ownership/management and then plays to his potential this season, money won’t keep him.
May 13th, 2026 at 9:36 pm
Thanks, Rod. Seems like it all boils down to which year is the norm and which the exception. My gut says 2024 was the “real” Baker but, if I were a Glazer, I wouldn’t love betting my team’s success on being right.
May 13th, 2026 at 9:39 pm
Buccaneer Bonzai Says:
May 13th, 2026 at 9:19 pm
Rod:
“…while the Glazers weren’t willing to give Brady part of the team…”
I know you’re being sarcastic, but if you think that part of what you said is true, please prove the discussion even happened, buddy 😉
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I said at the time the Bucs should offer up Brady a piece of ownership just because of the publicity it gets you (long term – not just short term) – and just having Brady attached to the team I think raises your profile enough that it more than pays for itself. Basically the Raiders did that.
But no, I have no idea if that really happened – and who knows, maybe the Glazers did offer him the same deal and he turned it down. Brady really never had any ties to the area, even when he was here. I mean after all the first thing that happened to him was some of the Tampa mayors goons harassing him about throwing a football around in a park without wearing a mask. Also don’t forget Brady ‘broke’ into a house when he entered the wrong place while going to meet up with Leftwich. Plus, Brady’s first couple of home games, it was really windy, which was unusual – I remember Brady asking Cameron Brate (I think) if it was always like that. Also I don’t think he’s liked Baker running his mouth about how the fun the locker room is since Brady left. Overall I don’t really get the impression that Brady liked this area much – but he did his job as a professional hired gun.
May 13th, 2026 at 9:41 pm
Pay him now$$$$$$$$$
May 13th, 2026 at 9:43 pm
Do you pay a starting NFL QB, because he’s a starting NFL QB
Or, do you pay him for actually winning meaningful NFL games ?
That’s the Glazers money, they can do whatever they want to do with it
But, you don’t have to pay a QB $200 Million to win 8 games
May 13th, 2026 at 9:46 pm
JustVisiting Says:
May 13th, 2026 at 9:31 pm
Thanks, BB. I definitely get rhe sense that Baker is driven by pride more than money, and I agree that he’s likely to give the Bucs a discount.
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I don’t think Baker is giving any discounts.
I think he feels screwed by signing his current deal as the Bucs did a great job of squeezing him. I think going into 2024 he thought he had a lot more leverage, and when the Bucs were telling him to go look for offers, and he didn’t come up with much, the Bucs gave him a pretty middling deal.
Personally I do not think 2024 is the real Baker, but we shall see, and it’s why the Bucs shouldn’t sign him early unless they get a huge discount and have an early out – and I can’t see Baker signing that deal.
But the great thing is Baker is under contract, has a loaded offense, is still running a branch of that same 2024 offense – so he’s got everything in his favor to have a big year. If he does, it means the Bucs are winning, and I’d be happy with that.
May 13th, 2026 at 10:50 pm
If the season is 8 episodes the then the first 4 will be good for him, the last 4 will be bad for him.
So basically it won’t do anything.
But it will probably show how tough he is which can’t hurt. But the nfl pays for td passes and wins, especially playoff wins. Of which he has two. At 31.
May 13th, 2026 at 11:11 pm
Baker Doubters argue that they want a quarterback who will win a Super Bow. They believe they can get a Super Bowl quarterback for less than $40M. Delusional. You will have to give a QB a $50M+ contract before you win a Super Bowl. What is your priority: winning or saving money? Which other QB would realistically sign with the Bucs for less money and more wins than Baker? And can we have less talk about Baker having had only one or two good years? In fewer than five years, he has risen to within the top five career passers on each of two NFL franchises. He has nothing to “prove” to anybody. He’s had some downs, like all QBs not named Otto Graham, but the body of work is there.
May 13th, 2026 at 11:29 pm
T-Krass on WDAE this afternoon wondered if they had been following him around since last season’s second half collapse (draft, birth of his child, & etc.)!? If they’d been following him around since during the collapse, then I guess just the commercials wasn’t enough for ole Bake. Regardless, it’s all going to blow TF up in his face. Just Watch. It’s almost certainly a guarantee.
May 13th, 2026 at 11:40 pm
@ JustVisiting Says: “Thanks, BB. I definitely get rhe sense that Baker is driven by pride more than money, and I agree that he’s likely to give the Bucs a discount.”
There is absolutely NOTHING that would suggest this to be true. He has NEVER said such nonsense (or ever insinuated it) before… AND, his very OWN AGENT has already stated public ally, that there will be NO “Discounts.” Baker will take what HE CAN GET and not a PENNY LESS. 💯 And, why wouldn’t he… He knows that THIS will more than likely be HIS LAST shot at a big bite of the apple. If he doesn’t get the number HE WANTS, then he’ll play it out! My advise to him would be to take what he can get NOW.
May 13th, 2026 at 11:46 pm
Baker is ALL ABOUT “BAKER-FIRST.” Now, I’m not saying there is anything wrong with that. What I am saying, is that YOU PEOPLE are Delusional. You are stuck living inside of this very weird Baker-Fantasyland, that is not even CLOSE to being REALITY.
May 13th, 2026 at 11:48 pm
It was the best of times it was the worst of times. From a Superbowl win and boat parade to losing Jensen, his first losing season and losing his super model wife to her jujitsu trainer. I think he done with Tampa. Too exhausting. Just ask Evans 3-28. Go Bucs!
May 13th, 2026 at 11:55 pm
@ Mobucs – “Delusional!?” So, please tell me again, HOW MUCH $$$$ were the TWO Starting-QB’s making in just this past season’s Super Bowl Matchup!? What about Stafford… What about Nix and Caleb Williams!?
May 14th, 2026 at 12:02 am
@ Rod Munch – Brady already had that deal set in the place with Mark Davis, before he ever stepped foot in Tampa Bay! He already had the relationship. That’s why he really wanted to sign with the Raiders instead of the Bucs… Until, GRUDEN shut it down himself! Gruden flat-out REFUSED. He didn’t want him. So, really, we can all “Thank Gruden” for delivering us TWO Super Bowl Trophies.
May 14th, 2026 at 12:07 am
MelvinJunior – Good point.
May 14th, 2026 at 12:09 am
@ Mobucs – Better yet, tell ME again, HOW MANY $50-MILLION+ QB’s even made “The PLAYOFFS” at all, last season!?
May 14th, 2026 at 12:37 am
These showbiz bits are what got him in trouble in Cleveland. Another reason to let 2026 play out before Jason does more dumb stuff.
May 14th, 2026 at 1:34 am
Better spreading the salary cap around building a solid team and winning the Super Bowl with a solid pro like Brad Johnson than blowing the salary cap on one guy at one position because they are “elite”.
I really like Mayfield. But, crazy money for any player is losing football more often than not.