Baker Mayfield Passing Chart Week 8
October 30th, 2024
Baker Mayfield
The dink and dunk continues.
Look, Joe isn’t about to rag on the Bucs offense in any way. Baker Mayfield is having a wonderful season. The Bucs have a running attack. The offensive line is blocking its ass off like Joe hasn’t seen since the 2020 Super Bowl season.
Only a complete clown or a devout hater would nitpick the Bucs offense. Shoot, they just scored 26 points without Mike Evans or Chris Godwin.
The offense is not what’s wrong with this team.
Still, it is a dink-and-dunk offense. Hey, whatever works. In the 31-26 loss to the Dixie Chicks, Mayfield only threw four passes farther than 20 yards.
In fact, of his 50 pass attempts, only 13 traveled beyond 10 yards. That, Bucs fans, is a dink-and-dunk offense.
But it’s working. So how can Joe quibble?
October 30th, 2024 at 9:55 am
Short passes with great YAC are fine with me. Joe’s obsessed with long passes and I’m not, I’m obsessed with points. I would like to see a couple deep attempts early in games to stretch the defense.
October 30th, 2024 at 9:58 am
Ok Joe we will see what happens not hating at all just don’t see a future with his style of play but we will see sir!!!!!
October 30th, 2024 at 10:42 am
keep sloughing off the turnovers and then watch how the season turns out
October 30th, 2024 at 10:43 am
We lost, although Winfield should have had the play of the day.
Regardless, we Didn’t score enough points and are left to wonder how the game looks with the ability to take some deep shots. I happen to remember a deep shot to Scotty Miller in the end zone that changed a game , ( two, actually.)
It’ll be interesting to see what Coen attacks on the KC defense. Can’t wait.
October 30th, 2024 at 10:50 am
IT’S WORKING?
“BAKER MAYFIELD IS HAVING A WONDERFUL SEASON”?
Really? …really?
Scoring 26 points doesn’t matter if much of it happens being down by 2 or more scores. Defenses soften up and give up a lot underneath when they have a lead of more than one score. They’re basically running out of the clock at that point.
October 30th, 2024 at 10:52 am
Tampa Bay has no legitimate deep threat and we lost our intermediate receivers in Godwin and Evans (who when healthy can go deep, but has been injured since Week 1 and now out).
All of the INTs in the last three weeks have been targeting young receivers deep and the wrong or poor routes have contributed. Deep shot to McMillan in the endzone, McMillan slows before the ball drops, so we call it an overthrow, but it’s route.
It’s on the ALL22.
October 30th, 2024 at 11:08 am
If you throw it less than 10 yds and still get a 20+ yard gain (YAC), it’s just as good as throwing a 20+ yd pass where the receiver is tackled at the point of reception. However, I do have one beef with the offense. It’s good. I agree with that. But, it could be even better if Mayfield eliminates those end zone INTs. It’s all about play count. When you give up plays because of turnovers, it gives the opponent more opportunities to score. Obvious, I know, but important. Look at all the points we’ve given up this year because of Red Zone turnovers.
October 30th, 2024 at 11:19 am
The turnovers are a BIG problem because Baker and Co. put a bad defense back on the field. He needs to protect the ball better and throwing into double and triple ain’t it. Plus throwing jump balls to short receivers won’t get it done either. Baker mostly underthrows on his picks. Hopefully he improves…soon
October 30th, 2024 at 12:30 pm
Take what the defense give you is ok until they don’t. 5 games the Bucs averaged about 36 points when defense gave and 2 games they averaged 13.5 when they didn’t. Chiefs give up 17.5 with 10 being the fewest and 25 the most. 49ers scored 18 and Ravens 20. I don’t see the Bucs putting up 30 but hey they brought in a future 1st ballot HOF guy to distribute the ball and 30 should be the minimum.
Spags knows teams want to play hot potato with the ball to avoid their rush.
It keeps his defense simple as it’s 9 playing goal line with a 2 safety back to cover when a DB jumps the quick route and misses. Then when he just feels like being ornery he dial up some heat with the best of them just because he can.
October 30th, 2024 at 12:46 pm
Thx all 22. A voice of reason in a sea of blather.
October 30th, 2024 at 1:39 pm
Thinking that the Falcons game was testing the waters without Godwin and Evans. Baker did a good job considering the circumstances. It was a close game and we really should have won.
October 30th, 2024 at 2:00 pm
I’ll say it again: If I was Coen, I would not be encouraging Baker’s deep ball. Sure, you gotta have some deep routes to get the defenders out of there, but he’s inaccurate but more importantly, pretty darn good when satisfied with 8 yard pickups and methodically marching down the field.
October 30th, 2024 at 2:09 pm
Why are we talking about the offense being the problem in the ATL loss? 26 points could have won the game if our defense hadn’t left the center of the backfield open all night. Missed tackles. Blown routes. Playing soft and searching for people to cover. If they had played to the ball or completed tackles, we could have prevented getting over run. But the guy calling shots on defense clearly didn’t prepare any schemes designed to disrupt the Falcons, even though we lost to them for the same reason a couple of weeks ago. $#&@ flows downhill!
October 30th, 2024 at 2:51 pm
So on passes of more than 10 yards he was …
5 of 13 with 2 INTs
So, over the last 3 weeks, he’s …
12 of 39 with 1 TD and 6 INTs when he passes more than 10 yards down the field.
Sorry, Baker Boi(s), that doesn’t make him better than Mahomes or MVP material. In fact, those type of numbers get you cut when you got a big contract. Hopefully he can turn things around, or at least stop throwing downfield more than just a token amount.
Baker is good at keeping plays alive and making short passes, so until teams shut that down, just keep using him in a way that takes advantage of what he’s good at.
October 30th, 2024 at 2:52 pm
Put the ball in your playmakers hands. Simple as that.
October 30th, 2024 at 5:13 pm
Hey he is only accurate within 20 yards that’s why when the 2 min drill is needed to drive the field to win the game, he fails
Take away the yards after catch and the soft defense due to being down by 2 or more scores his stats is garbage. When you are down by under 7 points and have to go 80 yards in less than 2 minutes baker is definitely not the one to get the win
October 30th, 2024 at 5:15 pm
Rod munch
I totally agree with you
October 30th, 2024 at 7:33 pm
I just finally got to watch the replay. What a game! We fought til the very end. We had many players stepping up. Ya, there were mistakes on the defense and offence but the game had me on the edge of my seat and I already knew the final score. We played darn good with the players we had. It was so entertaining!
GO BUCS!
October 31st, 2024 at 2:14 am
He’s a journeyman he’s a midget he’s a game manager he’s a throwaway from the trash heap. Hmm. Joe you reckon you and Munch will ever make up your minds. Oh well it’s a woman’s prerogative to change her mind.