Baker Mayfield Passing Chart Week 9
November 7th, 2024
Bucs QB Baker Mayfield.
On Monday night, while the Bucs didn’t pull out a win, one thing impressed Joe.
Liam Coen called one helluva game. Down his two top receivers and a third the team had banked on before the season, Coen did a masterful job getting a lot out of his weapons.
Switching up running backs, running behind Tristan Wirfs (!), giving Baker Mayfield a wide variety of targets, Coen used a lot of smart, well-crafted and creative plays.
And it wasn’t like Coen was facing the Bucs defense. Even with Pat Mahomes, the Chiefs are undefeated this season largely because of their defense.
Even though Coen was really short-handed, his offense remained the same. It’s a dink-and-dunk offense (Mayfield ranks No. 31 for quarterbacks throwing passes at or beyond the first down marker) — but it’s working.
Monday night, Mayfield threw just one pass farther than 20 yards downfield. Of his 31 pass attempts, nearly a third (10) were thrown to targets behind the line of scrimmage. Despite this, Mayfield averaged nearly seven yards of offense per throw.
Joe is almost convinced Coen is going to be a head coach somewhere next fall. He’s doing that good of a job.
November 7th, 2024 at 4:01 am
If Bowls does not fix the defense. Could Liam be the next head coach of our Bucs? Also would need a DC then.
November 7th, 2024 at 4:05 am
Coen is doing a really good job so far.
He s Offense works better than Canales last year and Canales got a HC job.
When Canales left i was lukewarm to be honest but With what Coen has shown so far i think it will be a shame if we dont see this Offense in a 2nd year.
Go Bucs
November 7th, 2024 at 7:02 am
I’m not so sure hiring someone with only one year of NFL OC experience is as attractive as it may have been. Just because a coach has been an OC or DC doesn’t mean he has the experience needed to guide the entire franchise to a successful season. Look at the debacle with Canales in Carolina. Nevertheless, I think Licht has to find a way to lock down Coen for at least another year to ensure he won’t be poached.
November 7th, 2024 at 7:02 am
The way Bowles is managing the games Coen will be our HC in 2025. That’s a no brainer. Pun intended.
Let’s Buck, TUCK, White and Bake!!!!!
November 7th, 2024 at 7:27 am
Personally think that saddling a brand-new HC with either OC or DC responsibilities is the kiss of death. It’s hard enough to be an effective coordinator without ALSO having to simultaneously learn how to manage the entire team as HC.
Of course, some might point to Dave Canales as the exception. Oh wait, he’s 2-7 right now, after beating the dysfunctional Raiders & Saints. Nevermind.
November 7th, 2024 at 7:32 am
BTW Joe, NFL teams typically hire coaches (other than HCs) fro 2-year contracts I believe. Why doesn’t the NFL make other teams honor that contract instead of allowing them to poach coordinators after 1 year? Or at least establish a ‘penalty’ for hiring away another team’s 1st year coordinator (say a 1st or 2nd Rnd draft pick).
November 7th, 2024 at 8:26 am
I want Coen to stay and or be HC. But my opinion means nothing.
November 7th, 2024 at 9:02 am
Coen will be our HC next year, Joe!
November 7th, 2024 at 10:45 am
Coen is a better OC than Canales. Canales is still a good coach. The Panthers were gonna be a mess with any coach, not like they were a winning ball club last season and Canales has taken them backwards.
If anything, with their injuries, having them show up and win Sunday means Canales is somewhat holding that locker room together. If the Bucs can’t regroup and go on a 2nd half run like last year, perhaps they will be missing Canales positive presence.
Anyway, Coen seems to be great, slapping HC on his plate might not be good for anyone next season but we will hopefully retain him one way or the other and find out.
November 7th, 2024 at 10:58 am
Baker- the Head Coach maker.
Meybe Cansles and Cohen are riding Mayfields coatails.
Belacheat sucks, but Rode Bradys talent long enough to be vonsidered a great Coach. Hes not. He sucks. Sucked before Brady. Sucked after Brady.
Mayfield is making every OC we have look great. Hes never gonna have the same OC 2 years in a row- unless one takes over Head coach at their current team
Which might happen here. That defense is ugly so far. Licht and Bowles are both a little nervous, I imagine.
November 7th, 2024 at 12:38 pm
Jason and the Glazers will not let Liam leave and keep LovieII. Not a damn chance.
November 7th, 2024 at 12:41 pm
Kinda reminds me of the “West Coast” offense San Fran ran a long time ago.
I agree Liam is doing a stellar job overall !
I too hope he sticks around @ least another year 🤞🏼.
Don’t think he needs to have HC duties added to his plate tho. Could mess up a good thing 😬
November 7th, 2024 at 1:15 pm
baker > crock turdy
November 7th, 2024 at 2:37 pm
Isn’t it at end of season & another team calls to meet with a neither teams oc or DC that the team has a rite to deny that to happen?
November 7th, 2024 at 2:38 pm
Isn’t it at end of season & another team calls to meet with another teams oc or DC that the team has a rite to deny that to happen?
November 7th, 2024 at 3:20 pm
You can’t deny it Joe, Liam Coen just keeps coming up with great offensive game plans even with the Evans and Godwin out. Even against Championship teams with highly rated defenses !!
Could he be a candidate for a HC position in 2025 ? Absolutely, but is he ready to take that step or does he like doing what he does best for another season or two ? Totally up to Liam Coen.
One thing is for sure, if he leaves the Bucs we will be hard pressed to find another OC as talented as him.
Go Bucs !!!
November 7th, 2024 at 5:50 pm
Much much better looking chart. Lots of credit goes to Baker for cleaning this up, and considering the complete lack of talent at WR it was a very impressive effort.
Equally, tons of credit goes to Coen who continues to call amazing games – and use Baker in a way that best fits his talent. Most stupid NFL coaches just flat out refuse to change their system to accommodate the talent, and Coen has been the exact opposite of that. For example when Luke went down, and that piece of garbage Sucke was in at tackle, it took nearly two games to do it, but Coen did change the offense pretty dramatically since he knew Sucke couldn’t hold a block at all – and the offense was just getting the ball out as quickly as possible – which worked well with Godwin in particular. Now that you’ve lost Evans and Godwin, he’s doing more creative runs, end arounds, and featuring the TE – again, using the best talent on the field instead of just saying the stupid ‘next man up’ bullcrap and running the same plays like Ryan Miller is just as good as Mike Evans.
For those saying you want him as HC, the Bucs may have no choice but to promote him as teams will come after him this offseason – but ideally you’d want him to stay focused on just the offense. I’ve seen over and over again how good OC’s are turned into HC’s, and with their time divided, the offense goes to squat. But, again, the Bucs likely won’t have a choice but to promote him if they want to keep him, and the Bucs should do that if they have to.
November 7th, 2024 at 5:53 pm
Also, again, give Todd Bowles credit for his amazing job at picking OC’s. Canales did a great job last year, and Coen is doing an even better job. Sometimes defense guys are the best at picking OC’s since they know who is the most creative, who gets the most out of their players, and who gives them the most problems.
Also keep in mind that Canales was something like the 11th pick of Bowles, all the others turned him down figuring Todd was going to get himself fired.