Baker Mayfield Making Offensive Line Calls
August 20th, 2024
Bigger role.
The Buccaneers’ big-money veteran quarterback has a little more on his plate right now
It’s official. Tampa Bay’s rookie center Graham Barton, the first-round pick, will be the starter on opening day
He’s learning fast. He’s been physical and the Bucs are happy as heck with him. But he doesn’t have every typical center responsibility on his plate, per Baker Mayfield speaking on SiriusXM NFL Radio yesterday.
Per Mayfield, Barton is shouldering the load when it comes to reading defenses to get the offensive line where it needs to be before the snap.
“Communication with him right now, it’s a little more in protection on me, of being able to, ‘Ok, we see this certain look, I’ll get us to the right protection,’ Mayfield said. “But I think he’s done a great job handling so far.”
Joe is intrigued to see how this develops. Mayfield hasn’t typically shouldered that kind of load in a regular season game. Joe has no reason to think Mayfield isn’t capable of setting protections and making line calls, but it does represent more on his plate.
August 20th, 2024 at 11:57 am
Right on
August 20th, 2024 at 12:04 pm
Joe said:
Mayfield hasn’t typically shouldered that kind of load in a regular season game. Joe has no reason to think Mayfield isn’t capable of setting protections and making line calls,
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I often wondered about his ability to change protections at the LOS and his ability to recognize blitzers because there were a lot of free runners at him last season. I can’t recall him making that many adjustments at the line
August 20th, 2024 at 12:04 pm
REGRESSION INCOMING.
August 20th, 2024 at 12:09 pm
Not a regression, just a planned shifted to the run game.
August 20th, 2024 at 12:14 pm
Trask To The Future Says:
August 20th, 2024 at 12:04 pm
REGRESSION INCOMING.
^^^^^^^^
You’re hoping/wishing/praying for this, right?
August 20th, 2024 at 12:20 pm
Mayfield has enough to do.
Especially with Bredesen and Mauch trying to stop inside pressure.
Bredesen started 5 games at Center for the Giants last year.
He was horrible, but he’ll be horrible at Guard, too.
Let him start at Center, and let Barton play guard.
Far less to think about.
Switch him to Center next year.
Ive suggested it before. Doesnt look like the direction they are going.
Personally, Id leave Barton at Guard. Next to Wirfs or Goedeke- he would be a destroyer.
If they really plan to start Bredesen, start him at Center. He is an NFL starting center.
While we groom or starting Center next year.
Elijah Klein.
Then next year, we only gotta worry about Mauch.
August 20th, 2024 at 12:24 pm
Mayfields a vet, he can handle it. Barton is smart, I’m sure he’ll be making the calls before the end of the season.
August 20th, 2024 at 12:42 pm
Regression Baker will still the be starter over Trask. Lol
August 20th, 2024 at 12:55 pm
Mayfield was never allowed to change protection or make audibles at the line of scrimmage that was what canales was wanting to do. Whatever the play was out of the huddle, was the play they were gonna run regardless of what the defense was doing. Baker is very smart at reading defenses so this will help their offense alot
August 20th, 2024 at 1:02 pm
This news makes the Pear family very happy. That plus audibles = faster more explosive starts.
August 20th, 2024 at 1:06 pm
Michigan Joe, it’s so weird to see supposed fans of the team and Uber fans of the…. Backup. Quarterback seemingly praying for a regression in quarterback play on the team they are a fan of. Almost makes it seem like they are not really a fan of the team, just one player, and not even a starter. How strange. And then how strange to follow the team on a blog that’s about the team. Not sure I would waste my time, but you do you.
August 20th, 2024 at 1:24 pm
Good. Thank God. He HAS TO. Enough of this ‘acting like’ you’re going up there to run a play, after killing 15-seconds off the clock before ‘huddling’ – just to then back-off and start looking over to the sidelines, as they do in High School & College… Then,running it all the way down to under 4-5 seconds before snapping the damm ball. You can NEVER get into any kind of rhythm that way, & it only allows the DEFENSE the time to fully setup and diagnose where the play is going, while giving them the opportunity to time and JUMP the snap!!!! You have to change up the timing on WHEN you snap the BALL… You CANNOT go up there, just to snap the ball with 1 or 2 seconds left on the clock EVERY fricken TIME… Or, you’re just doomed. Keep it movin’ – Let’s GOOOOOO.
August 20th, 2024 at 1:24 pm
Mayfield for the time being is the Bucs franchise QB, if he can’t handle line calls, then the Bucs shouldn’t have paid him.
August 20th, 2024 at 1:54 pm
@Steven007
Definitely weird here. A fairly large contingent of Baker and Bowles haters in the comments section who, in spite of their statements to the contrary are obviously hoping to see the team faili
August 20th, 2024 at 2:35 pm
Good Lawd the clown comments on these threads……. ………
August 20th, 2024 at 2:35 pm
This either goes extremely well or extremely not well.
As was just mentioned, if you pay a guy $100M you expect him to read defenses.
I mean we’ve been seeing Trask make line calls in both preseason games. The times he got sacked wasn’t from holes in protection calls, but from lineman who got beat. Looks to me like a feature in the offense. Giving the QB the protect calls a la Tom Brady is part of the Coen philosophy.
August 20th, 2024 at 2:37 pm
One of the Todd breakthroughs was indicating early into OQAs that Baker would work with Coen on line calls, audibles, etc. It gave me hope that Todd was evolving.
August 20th, 2024 at 2:46 pm
I have never been a fan of rookie centers starting the season making the offensive line calls until they get settled into the professional week prep and play repetitions. All it takes is one mistake during the game and your franchise QB goes down.
August 20th, 2024 at 3:30 pm
Anyone else hear Steve Kurr reference the Tampa 2 defense during the DNC last night? Thought that was pretty cool. No politics here please. Just making an observation.
August 20th, 2024 at 3:41 pm
‘Joe is intrigued to see how this develops. Mayfield hasn’t typically shouldered that kind of load in a regular season game. Joe has no reason to think Mayfield isn’t capable of setting protections and making line calls, but it does represent more on his plate.’
Now you’ve done it Joe. You’ve got me concerned about this offense at the beginning of the season. Here we are with a new offense being directed by a new OC, with a new Left Guard & a new Center, but our QB ends up with a much heavier workload. Setting protections & making line calls is a new responsibility, but apparently Baker will ALSO be allowed to change plays based on the defensive alignment. What could possibly go wrong?
Uh, maybe communications breakdowns? Maybe more penalties? Maybe missed blocking assignments? The list just goes on & on. Got a hunch that early in the season Coen will stick to the KISS principle & keep things VERY simple. Wouldn’t be at all surprised to see us run the ball A BUNCH during these early games.
August 20th, 2024 at 4:31 pm
Mayfield is a veteran starting QB. He should be able to call his own plays and audible when necessary. Not being able to do that last year is more of a red flag on the coaches part. Not Mayfield.
August 20th, 2024 at 4:48 pm
Who was the Fool on here that kept pushing signing Russel Wilson and let Mayfield walk? Wilson is about to lose his QB spot to Fields. Will the pathetic fool admit that he was wrong? Nope, he will act like he never said it.
August 20th, 2024 at 4:54 pm
74 Bucs Fan Says:
August 20th, 2024 at 3:30 pm
Anyone else hear Steve Kurr reference the Tampa 2 defense during the DNC last night? Thought that was pretty cool. No politics here please. Just making an observation.
You got to be a complete idiot to watch that circus.
August 20th, 2024 at 5:44 pm
This is the next step to being great.
August 20th, 2024 at 6:36 pm
BakerFan…. typical.
August 20th, 2024 at 6:55 pm
Regression incoming. 🫨. Baker is already “regressing” to more responsibility as the QB under Liam as OC. Hope he quiets his critics early in this season.
Go Bucs!!!
August 20th, 2024 at 7:27 pm
Baker 2024
>4500 yards passing
30TDs
Seeing Canalwater in the rear view mirror is a relief. Coen is aggressive and wants to score points. He also chews arse if arse needs to be chewed, instead of giving everyone a cookie.
August 20th, 2024 at 8:13 pm
74bucks fan says only a traitor wud ever watch anything to do with the DBC slave owners did u know k Harris is a desedant of slave owners
August 20th, 2024 at 8:19 pm
Circus is being kind they r the original slave owners that’s why they coronated Obama that’s part of their reparations at u r expense never at their -DNC that is expense,they just steal u r money & elections
August 20th, 2024 at 10:43 pm
Wow. Illiterate much?
August 20th, 2024 at 11:33 pm
Site sucks
August 20th, 2024 at 11:52 pm
THE TRASK EXPERIMENT HAS FAILED…BETTER GET WHAT YOU CAN BEFORE THE SEASON STARTS. I DON’T BELIEVE HE’S EVEN BACKUP MATERIAL…AND VALUE IS DROPPING
August 21st, 2024 at 12:16 am
It isn’t like Mayfield doesn’t already notice the defense, it’s the fact that he will have to do a bit more. That time can’t be assessed.
It could also be that he will be able to do it, it’s not like we haven’t seen him pick up defensive signals during a game.
It just is one more thing, it could be bad, or good.
Truthfully, our defense’s edge rush and corner weaknesses still concern me more than this.
August 21st, 2024 at 1:02 am
Bake is the franchise Quarterback, the teams highest-paid player and captain: time to hand him the reigns. IMO no team in today’s NFL legitimately contends for a title w/out the QB having the freedom to change the playcall and protection at the LOS whenever necessary. This seems like the next step forward for our offense as far as I can tell.
August 21st, 2024 at 6:30 am
Hmm…
Sounds reasonable. I have seen this happen with other teams before. Barton is no dummy and I am sure he will learn and pick it up.
Remember Hainsey having issues and Brady crawling his ass for it. A few times Hainsey was lost pre snap as I remember. He learned though.
Go Bucs!