Baker Mayfield having fun in the sun: Buccaneers QB has finally found his warm and fuzzy place in the NFL

Tampa, Fla. – To Baker Mayfield walked out Tampa Bay buy Boccaneers’ shade easier, coat of orange dying hair brighter than the teammates took him to the head.

As part of the love of things for kids with cancer, Mayfield was one of the many bucs players who allowed the kids to the dye hair. It was a good fun and mayfield all of the fun these days.

He’s pushed now the past all that speak of being a busted top-overall pick up to become one of the league’s most-underrated quarterbacks, a player who must be strongly in the top 10 in the league.

London days when you stop allowed to leave after him, the top overall in 2018 in the Rearview mirror to settle in the third time in Tampa, come to the best NFL season again.

The bucs are the mayfield in the fourth team, but it’s home and searching for the entire career. They love the Tampa and loves the bucks back. His teammates sent out of it. The organization and front office love him. Hot feel clear that teammates walked past us.

Massive tackle taclean wirfs, one of his best friends, walked and gave mayfield a playful dis.

“Man, you look good in it, sad, but I do not know what you are going” Mayfield said wirfs.

“I am looking (expletive) huge” wirfs cried back.

Playful. Light. Laughter.

It’s the way to a lot of NFL Places June with the games or line, but it’s the way of Mayfield most time now that’s found at home. It’s all always wanted.

“Always had to trust that if I’ve got the right situation, good future,” Mayfeld said. “I knew what you were capable to do. It took me to getting to Tampa Bay’s best version of me.”

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Mayfield, who always means that I will be confident, admitted that it is not bent sometimes let go of brouts and panther before latching with los Angeles Rams in 2022.

“I had to build a confidence back,” Mayfeld said. “There are no points on the time when I’m done (don’t doubt). She first got it in the la”

He played five games rams, four as a starter and leaped four touchdown passes and two reads. The numbers are not very but its play impressed. I came off the bench in the week coming in Los Angeles and helped the rams to win the game on the Raiders with barely at any time learning. Then finished 24 of 28 transit to 230 miles and two touchdowns to beat Broncos.

It is enough to get a single-year deal in Tampa Bay in 2023, with an idea in an organization to be just to be a short stint after Tom Caesar.

Mayfield changed that to think with her story. Now it’s. Come time when threw a career-best 41 touchdown passes to the finish tied to the second in a league and the third in the yard with 4,500. In two seasons with Tampa Bay, which has 69 touchdown transit will be taken in the bucs to the playoffs in each of their times and earned three years, $ 100 million contract last year.

If you think you’re quiet in the victory you can forget. I asked if the infamous chip carries his shoulder gone.

“Neither text” said. “I love you playing here with his guys, but I have to be inside motivated. “

For the first time with 2020-21 times with browns, mayfield be in the same system for two straight years. The new doctrine is not an offense and new. However, learning a new coordinator.

With Liam Coen left after one year at the head undergraduate job with Jacksonville Jaguars, the bucs elevated assistant Josh Grizzzzzard as above as a coordinator. Grizzzzzzard, who is considered one of the bright, young people in a league – a coach that graduated by Yale – never called plays at some degree.

Grizzzzard, by the way, then mayfield in the ninth offensive coordinator in eight times. Nine. To think about it.

“Liam and I was nearly la and was great in my last year,” Mayfeld said. “Griz has his own tweaks on it. He’s handled it well. He’s handled it’s just going to transfer from one season to the next. Nothing we did the last year. We are working on the Number of Deep passes have come down the past two years) and fundamentals in the run game. Josh is still getting used to Calling plays. He was instrumental in our third-down install and passing-game stuff last year. So he has experience. “

Mayfield said coach Todd Bowles is using the use of situation to survey get familiar with calling games.

“He’s letting him call sporting the actual game-type conditions during use,” Mayfeld said. “But it went down to feel at playing coloni rather than something.”

To be in the same offensive account for two years in order to help. Mayfield asked more to a line of scrimmage last time under a coin, and he wants to carry with Grizzzzzard.

“I will try to get it because it is to be in the same way, because I am so the learning new transgressions,” Mayfeld said. “Now it’s just about the details. We have a great group. We have everybody back and added some pieces in the skill group. That makes it easier. 1 took a lot more ownership of it. When it comes to those checks at the line of Scrimmage, it makes it a lot easier with the guys being back. They know When we get this Blitz, and 1 am going to check to this play, it’s second nature for them. When people do not have to think about it, it’s a lot more. “

The bucks are all of them, especially in the offense and added receptor of Emeka egbuka in the first round April draft. And it was all in the team expected so far, giving them a nice weapon to the Mike Evans, Chris Godwin (still recovering a McMillan and Backy and Cade Otton White in Backfield.

“He (egbuka) has a natural feel at his route running,” Mayfeld said. “He has a good percent of getting to the right spots on Zone. He is the most pain. The head was never spinning. He was getting the other guys. And it’s polished.”

But mayfield was quick to point out the bucs offense this year will be a lot like it was a year.

“It also runs through the run game and Mike (Evans) ‘” “says.” This is how he goes. “

There are some things in the bucs need mayfield to cut into. One of his body on the line conditions can be smarter about it, although only 14 in carries the quarterbacks and makes the success of a slip.

The other is down into interceptions because they threw a league, leading 16 last year. But the part of the throwing reader is always going to be a gunslinger. That’s a person who is, and the quarterbacks to me in the past, you can play or send interceptions, but you are not throwing a lot of touchdown transit or.

“When you go and look at interceptions and what happened, a couple were just being too aggressive in certain conditions,” Mayfeld said. “You also have to eliminate the wrong decisions for the first time and mainly.”

Just protecting each other?

“Thirdly down, the game in the line, you have to do what you have to do,” Mayfeld said. “Other things in the Sideline, you can be smarter. I get it.”

And a little bit of a second.

“It’s very” said.

Wait a great a mayfield or offense again. The defense is better with some nice additions in the draft in secondary and acquisition of Hair Restick to pass through Rusher. If the unit is at the same time, Tampa Bay can be Crater Concertator.

If the bucs are to be there, Mayfield’s transformation would be complete. Would have gone out of Cleveland Fiasco to Crater As the browns continue to be MEDA in quarterback misery.

Mayfield is actually the underrated, and it’s nearly as people want to see more. And yet they do not believe.

That’s a mistake. He’s for real.

By Crater could change all of that negative thinking – and at least will change his or her contract status. A three-year-old expires after 2026 times. If this is playing this time as he did in 2024, the average salary of $ 33 million will look at the paltry compared to some of the recent deals on the quarterbacks. Mayfield’s cap number goes to $ 50 million next year, so the extension after this time could be probable. When you see the Brock Purdy take a deal and averages $ 53 million, mayfield has to be an eying and type of money.

That’s a big year for the mayfield, but I don’t make it. He turned 30 in April and seems to be content with what is like a player and it seems to think about the rest and work.

“I will not change something I’ve been in order to be here” said. “This is where I mean.”

Mayfield smiled. He makes a lot of these days. Nice to be fun again.