Todd Bowles’ Best Move Was Believing In Baker Mayfield
January 14th, 2024
Todd Bowles saved Baker Mayfield’s career. And Mayfield paid Bowles back by maybe saving Bowles’ job with an NFC South title. (Photo courtesy of Tampa Bay Buccaneers.)
No matter what, Joe is geeked that the Bucs are a playoff team, an NFC South champ again (third-straight year — a franchise first).
How did the Bucs get there? It wasn’t a suffocating defense. It wasn’t an overpowering run game. You can make a very strong argument that it is because of how offensive coordinator Dave Canales resurrected Baker Mayfield’s career.
And Mayfield is here because of Bucs coach Todd Bowles.
The Bucs needed a quarterback. Mayfield was basically thrown on the NFL scrap heap after he flamed out in Carolina last season. Sure, he showed signs of life in Los Angeles but unless Matt Stafford was traded, Mayfield wasn’t going to start.
Likewise in Baltimore, the Crows were interested in Mayfield because Lamar Jackson might have held out after he had the franchise tag slapped on him.
The Bucs were the lone team to give Mayfield a real chance at starting. And that was in large part due to the relationship Bowles and Mayfield forged before the 2018 NFL Draft when Bowles coached the Jets.
And boy, has Bowles’ faith in Mayfield paid off. Mayfield is a top-10 quarterback my many metrics. Here’s how:
Touchdowns: 7th (28).
Passing yards: 9th (4,044).
Passing yards under pressure: 2nd (1,043).
Touchdown-to-interception ratio: 10th (2.8).
(Joe will add that only a dozen teams have a better record than the Bucs.)
Simply put, it’s hard for Joe to believe that the Bucs wouldn’t re-sign Mayfield this offseason. Top-10 quarterbacks who lead their teams to a division crown can’t exactly be found on the sub line at the Publix deli.
If not for Mayfield’s stellar season, would Bowles even be the Bucs coach right now?
Baker Mayfield vs Jalen Hurts since Thanksgiving:
Yds/Att
Baker: 7.7 (#13)
Jalen: 6.5 (#29)Comp %
Baker: 64% (#20)
Jalen: 61% (#32)EPA/Att
Baker: 0.09 (#15)
Jalen: 0.04 (#18)TD%
Baker: 6.0% (#8)
Jalen: 3.8% (#22)EAGLES @ BUCS PREVIEW:https://t.co/9ldHi1FIaJ
— Warren Sharp (@SharpFootball) January 13, 2024
January 14th, 2024 at 9:51 am
Release the Hounds of Silliness. Time to grab some popcorn
January 14th, 2024 at 9:52 am
Ah, Tony you beat me to it
January 14th, 2024 at 10:05 am
I hope Baker can overcome his physical limitations on Monday night…
It would be nice to see a pass completed that is over 12 yards.
January 14th, 2024 at 10:06 am
Very encouraging/refreshing post! Go Bucs!!
January 14th, 2024 at 10:09 am
The passing yards under pressure stat is phenomenal!
January 14th, 2024 at 10:09 am
This one has everything.
appreciation for the season and Qb regardless of Monday night
calling for Baker to be re-signed
Categories of Baker being top ten
success of division title on Baker
Its Like a David Since76, Mush, Belle Td etc head exploding cocktail
January 14th, 2024 at 10:16 am
Ahhhh puuuuuurrfect MarinesBuc’s Head….lol,,,,, was the first to explode. Its like distant thunder as the electrical winds of silly hate approaches
January 14th, 2024 at 10:25 am
Congrats to baker kicking those three field goals against Carolina in that do or die game. What a leg on that guy. Really saved our season with that clutch performance.
January 14th, 2024 at 10:28 am
Probably true assessment. Mayfield was the affordable option,but they wouldn’t have brought him in if Bowles didn’t think Baker had some gas left in the tank. Glad it worked out for both of them. Hard to see them passing on re-signing unless his agent gets $50m stupid.
January 14th, 2024 at 10:28 am
Anyone want to bet that Jalen’s completion percentage will be ALOT better than 61% Monday night. Oh for man on man coverage? Isn’t everyone healthy?
January 14th, 2024 at 10:32 am
Actually Joe,
I once met Evander Holyfield on line for chicken fingers at the Publix Deli, so you never know!
January 14th, 2024 at 10:33 am
Solid, but not great season. Every other team in the nfc south will get better next year, whether its players, coaching or both. Will we get better by hanging on to the bread crumbs of going all in?
January 14th, 2024 at 10:37 am
But who did we play? Do the ratings reflect the quality of opponents on the schedule.
To start the year the Eagles were rated at the number 1 hardest schedule. Bucs rated at 22 strength of schedule. Saints 31 and Falcons 32.
Derek Carr stats are pretty close at 13th for 2023.
January 14th, 2024 at 10:37 am
I like this matchup for the Bucs. It’s certainly better than one and done against Dallas. We beat Philly a couple years ago in a very similar situation. But Baker will need his A game to get the job done. Our defense should Russ to the occasion
January 14th, 2024 at 10:37 am
Worbel a better choice for Monday. He has rhe same playoff record as Baker and he can run faster. This way Baker can avoid losing future monies.
January 14th, 2024 at 10:40 am
It all comes down to the Glazers. If they’re not happy with the results they’ve been getting from the Bowles coaching staff, everybody is getting fired, and we’re probably starting over with one of the many quarterbacks in the upcoming draft.
If the Glazers like the progress they are seeing (and, despite the mediocre record, I really do see a way better team than last year’s) then undoubtedly they’ll resign Mayfield to probably a Carr-like contract.
January 14th, 2024 at 10:42 am
I appreciate what Mayfield has brought to the team. The team as a whole out-performed expectations. New QB, New OC, newly revamped o-line, etc. Having a winning record, regardless of strength of opponent, was seemingly out of reach, let alone winning the division for the rd straight year.
I’m not going to get carried away with the “inconsistent play” of Mayfield because this is a team sport. Not to make excuses but having no productive running game and still forcing it left Mayfield with far too many 3rd and long situations for any reasonable person to think could lead to a high success rate or “consistency”. Obvious pasimg down against a solid pass rush and decent coverage makes it hard for ANY QB to operate.
However Monday turns out, if you compare this team from camp to now, it should foster some optimism. Canales will learn and grow. We have a couple of young studs on D. Bowles had a full off season and season to operate without the spectra of BA over his shoulder and he has also shown improvement and made very few coaching.errors compared to last year.
If we can keep Evans, Winfield, Mayfield, etc and add a couple of pieces via draft, trade or FA, my “glass” will be “mostly full” for next season.
Go Bucs!!!
January 14th, 2024 at 10:45 am
@ Tony
How do you think Baker will play on Monday night?
I hope he doesn’t fall short…
January 14th, 2024 at 10:53 am
Scotty, AJ Brown out, Boy Dick Munch is not going to like those stats recited, he’s picked out his own tid bits to keep spewing his sht.
GO BUCS
January 14th, 2024 at 10:54 am
Aj brown was huge in the first game. He’s out. It’d be nice if Bucs had mike Tyson as a pass rusher. He could bite jalens hurt finger.😊
January 14th, 2024 at 11:00 am
“Passing yards under pressure: 2nd (1,043)”
I deduce from that he’s under pressure a LOT
January 14th, 2024 at 11:00 am
Really Joe, that warrants moderation?
January 14th, 2024 at 11:03 am
Let all the arguing about Baker END and let’s play football.
He will write his story and it better be a “heady” showing because that’s the position these playoff games come down to.
Watched the replay of KC and Miami, and Mahomes made all the difference.
Even Andy Reid said he was the difference.
He took the easy throws and “Identified” the one on one matchups.
If Baker can check it down MORE to White and attack this Philly defense “horizontally” they will suffer with those big D Lineman.
Make them run to the side as much as possible and use your TEs in the middle.
Take your shots when they suck up.
If Baker can’t do the simple things then he doesn’t belong.
If he can, we will win this game 34-17.
If he can’t this is a low scoring game.
Time to MAN UP!!!!
January 14th, 2024 at 11:07 am
Marine Buc Says:
January 14th, 2024 at 10:45 am
@ Tony
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I like how almost every post I see from you has me in mind. Even the Borg couldn’t control you more.
January 14th, 2024 at 11:10 am
Tb bolts Says:
January 14th, 2024 at 10:25 am
Congrats to baker kicking those three field goals against Carolina in that do or die game. What a leg on that guy.
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Two heads now exploded and the Team Hate roll call continues…….
January 14th, 2024 at 11:12 am
We can see which fanboi wrote this article.
Blowles was forced to choose Mayfield because after one idiotic season of being our head coach he handed the GOAT his ONLY losing season in his ENTIRE 20+ year career he had to save his job.
How much you want to bet if Brady had atleast Cornales as his OC last year the Bucs would’ve gone better than 8-9?
They didn’t bother developing Brady’s successor and went with the lazy choice.
All those stats are smoke and mirrors they don’t show the true story. After 6 years in the league Baker is 42-47 all time for a reason and it wasn’t all because of the coaches and players around him.
He has hit his ceiling with the Bucs and if they sign him to a long term contract then they consign themselves to a record just like Baker’s, win some lose some.
Teams who develop their high drafted qb are the ones who go on to become winning franchises.
The Bucs in their entire 47 year history have NEVER done that and look at their record.
Blowles has doomed the Bucs to continue in his record as a head coach because he refused to take the lumps necessary when starting a 1st time starting qb because he has no foresight, only coaching not to lose
January 14th, 2024 at 11:14 am
-Tony Marks
I can see that you still suffer from mental erect!le dysfunction.
The Blue Pill didn’t help you Tony? Your brain still can’t get it up. That’s a shame. Increase the dosage.
You were the first person to bring up other people such as myself, Rod, etc.
We live rent free in your head, and you project that on to others. Classic Tony.
I’m fine with Baker being our quarterback for next year.
I’ve stated that Baker has earned being our quarterback next year with his production and that I want him as our quarterback and that we need a workhorse back (I’m not convinced about White between the tackles) to compliment with White like a Kamara/Ingram combo and a monster at center to replace Hainesy who has played atrociously.
The Bucs need a back like Wiscon’s 6’2”, 245 lb, 4.4 forty running back in Braelon Allen who is #34 on Bruce Feldman’s Freak List. Think Derrick Henry or Bo Jackson or Jim Brown.
If the Bucs can draft Braelon Allen at RB and the #1 center in Sedrick Van Pran who is a 6’4” 310 lb mauler out of Georgia then Baker and the Bucs offense will be DANGEROUS next year.
Please take the Blue Pill, Tony.
Your problem is also math, Tony.
I said that Baker is more hurt going into this week with the 2 injuries the Bucs reported on the injury report for the playoff game against the Eagles. You can literally read that on the Bucs official website.
You said I was wrong and that Baker wasn’t more injured going into this week’s Eagle’s game vs last weeks game against Carolina and that players and coaches don’t lie about injuries, which is super gullible for you to believe.
You know that a rib injury for the Panthers’ game last week = 1 injury, right Tony?
You know that a rib injury and an ankle injury for the Eagle’s game this week = 2 injuries, right Tony?
Please take the Blue Pills!
I cited NFL Next Gen Stats from the Carolina game last week where Baker played injured and didn’t complete a pass for over 10 yards and that I was concerned about that happening again this week against the Eagles and if that happens then the Bucs will struggle to win and you argued with me and called me names.
Everybody on this site would be thankful if you took the Blue Pills and cured your mental erecti!e dysfunction, Tony.
Please do it for us rational fans who are not on the fringe like you Tony with your shrine to Baker and David who has a voodoo doll of Baker.
January 14th, 2024 at 11:15 am
@ Tony
What is the borg?
Sorry – but I’m not a big Star Wars fan.
January 14th, 2024 at 11:20 am
Exploding heads #3 and #4 mark present (although #4 started rambling about something so I stopped reading )
January 14th, 2024 at 11:27 am
Billy Bucco with the only true non Baker love/ hate post. Simple and plain, if he plays well we can win can if not we can’t.
Guess we’ll see which Baker plays tomorrow night.
Regardless of the outcome we all know the fanbois will say he’s the only reason why we won or it was everybody else’s fault why we lost
January 14th, 2024 at 11:27 am
-Billy Bucco
Your offensive game plan for the Bucs against the Eagles is spot on for how the Bucs can beat the Eagle’s defense.
Stinnie, Hainsey and Mauch are our weak link on offense and Baker is injured. Because of that you must plan accordingly. Quick horizontal plays to your playmakers in space and tire out the strength of the Eagles defense which is their front 4 is a great plan.
Fingers crossed 🤞 that Canales plans it, Bowles allows it, Canales calls it and Baker executes it.
Running at the Eagles as Canales has said is a key to our success is really the final nail in our coffin and the death of our season.
January 14th, 2024 at 11:29 am
Hey Marks …
Below is my response to your previous attack on my knowledge about and, like all here, subjective opinion of Baker Mayfield.
I mostly read Joe’s site for laughs, yet congruently it is refreshing to see we have some diehard Bucs fans in this snowbird invasion zone.
GO BUCS!!
But you, Tony, stand out as the most myopically skewed fan of Baker Mayfield I’ve encountered within these pages, or anywhere for that matter. In your eyes he can do no wrong.
Others might give him credit where credit is due, but also call him out for poor play when warranted. But not you. You relentlessly attack any anti-Mayfield poster (despite empirical or documented evidence to support their critique) as if he has committed a federal crime for criticizing your hero. You callously label them Trask loving, idiot fools or claim they don’t know what they’re talking about. You often do so with a mind prone to rambling periods blurred with mixed metaphors.
I was thinking (like many I presume), “Wow, what is it with this guy?”
And then it hit me.
I envisioned your bedroom walls adorned with Mayfield pictures and posters, perhaps even one or two with you by his side with the inscription, ME AND BAKE CHILLIN’
After digesting this epiphanic moment, I was left with a single question. And I’ll preface it by saying that we’re all adults here, and it is 2024.
So don’t be shy and answer truthfully.
Are you head over heels in love with Baker Mayfield?
January 14th, 2024 at 11:31 am
-Tony Marks
The mental erecti!e dysfunction is strong with you, Tony.
Your brain is still limp and flaccid and can’t get it up, Tony?
That’s a shame.
January 14th, 2024 at 11:34 am
Belle Glade Buc the only thing that would make true Buc fans on this site as happy as the Bucs winning the next game is if that loser left or was banned. He truly does not bring anything of substance to this board and neither does his fanboi troop or the turncoat “Buc” fans who are really Baker lovers.
January 14th, 2024 at 11:36 am
BillyBucco with the only true objective view on the Eagles game
January 14th, 2024 at 12:03 pm
Marine Buc (and others) are really hung up on “Midget Mayfield’s” height (or lack of). Here’s a list of the playoff QBs this year (shortest to tallest):
Baker Mayfield 6’1″
Tua Tagovailoa 6’1″ (lost)
Brock Purdy 6’1″
Jalen Hurts 6’1″
Lamar Jackson 6’2″
Patrick Mahomes 6’2″ (won)
Dak Prescott 6’2″
CJ Stroud 6’3″ (won)
Matthew Stafford 6’3″
Jordan Love 6’4″
Jared Goff 6’4″
Josh Allen 6’5″
Mason Rudolph 6’5″
Joe Flacco 6’6″ (lost)
It seems there are 3 other “midget QBs” (6’1″) that made it to the playoffs and is the extra inch for Mahomes, Jackson and Prescott REALLY a big deal? LOL
January 14th, 2024 at 12:09 pm
Marine Buc Says:
January 14th, 2024 at 11:15 am
@ Tony
What is the borg?
Sorry – but I’m not a big Star Wars fan.
Marine just tipped his age. It isn’t Star Wars. It’s Star Trek Next Generation.
“Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.”
January 14th, 2024 at 12:16 pm
I can’t wait for the opportunity to use a reference to ” Hugh”.
January 14th, 2024 at 12:18 pm
Glass Half Full Guy and Citrus County 😅🤣😂😅🤣😂
January 14th, 2024 at 12:18 pm
@ Citrus
WOOOSH…
LOL!
January 14th, 2024 at 12:21 pm
-Glass Half Full
I agree with you about Baker’s height.
My concern about Baker being our quarterback this season was his past production on losing football teams.
Baker’s performance this season has put that skepticism from me to rest.
If Jason Licht doesn’t fix the interior of our offensive line from Stinnie to the weakest link Hainsey in this draft, then our running game and passing game will not be as effective as they can be.
I love The Bucs need a back like Wiscon’s 6’2”, 245 lb, 4.4 forty running back in Braelon Allen who is #34 on Bruce Feldman’s Freak List. Think Derrick Henry or Bo Jackson or Jim Brown.
If the Bucs can draft Braelon Allen at RB who looks like a Derrick Henry power back clone and Sedrick Van Pran who is a 6’4” 310 lb razor blade chewing out of Georgia then Baker and the Bucs offense will be DANGEROUS next year.
Give me the best safety in the draft and fellow Gopher to Winfield Jr in Tyler Nubin and you will have addressed our major weaknesses with good young players.
January 14th, 2024 at 12:23 pm
@ Glass
Baker is fine for the money he is currently being paid.
But I am a little weary of giving him a large multi-year deal.
Unfortunately – the Bucs will have very limited options at QB this off-season.
January 14th, 2024 at 12:25 pm
-Glass Half Full
I agree with you about Baker’s height.
My concern about Baker being our quarterback this season was his past production on losing football teams.
Baker’s performance this season has put that skepticism from me to rest.
If Jason Licht doesn’t fix the interior of our offensive line from Stinnie to the weakest link Hainsey in this draft, then our running game and passing game will not be as effective as they can be.
The Bucs need a back like Wiscon’s 6’2”, 245 lb, 4.4 forty running back in Braelon Allen who is #34 on Bruce Feldman’s Freak List. Think Derrick Henry or Bo Jackson or Jim Brown.
If the Bucs can draft Braelon Allen at RB who looks like a Derrick Henry power back clone and Sedrick Van Pran who is a 6’4” 310 lb masher out of Georgia then Baker and the Bucs offense will be DANGEROUS next year.
Give me the best safety in the draft and fellow Gopher to Winfield Jr in Tyler Nubin and you will have addressed our major weaknesses with good young players.
January 14th, 2024 at 12:36 pm
Citrus hopefully Locutus/Picard won’t tell the Bucs “sleep”
January 14th, 2024 at 12:37 pm
Citrus hopefully Picard won’t tell the Bucs “sleep”
January 14th, 2024 at 12:38 pm
Citrus hopefully Picard won’t tell the Bucs to sleep
January 14th, 2024 at 12:39 pm
Citrus County hopefully Picard won’t tell the Bucs to sleep
January 14th, 2024 at 12:40 pm
The borg are a cyber/ human army depicted in Star Trek. A mindless collective controlled by a single entity, acting as a collective hive mind. Not unlike the cult of trask….😊
January 14th, 2024 at 12:42 pm
Citrus County hopefully the Bucs won’t be told to sleep
January 14th, 2024 at 12:42 pm
Baker is about to get mega exposed come Monday night. The only mystery is how tony marks will react to his last garbage performance of the season. My guess is the ol tried n true “no one thought they’d win more than 4 games” lmao the standard is so low for these baker obsessed clowns. Baker is worth his minimum contract and nothing more. Baker should give chase mclaughlin half of that minimum contract.
January 14th, 2024 at 12:46 pm
Joe’s you need to check or tweak your mod algorithm.
Can you tell me what is wrong with “Citrus County hopefully the Bucs won’t be told to sleep” that got modded?
Absolutely doesn’t make any sense the random words that are modded then all of a sudden aren’t like 100
January 14th, 2024 at 12:50 pm
Tb bolts: You have a hard time telling the truth, don’t you? Look up what the NFL minimum salary is.
January 14th, 2024 at 12:51 pm
@ Tony/Citrus/Let em bake
Nerd ALERT!!!!
January 14th, 2024 at 12:55 pm
That is an answer that we cannot know. It is possible that either Trask or Wolford could have done at least as well.
It would not have been hard, the offense was woeful many times this season.
January 14th, 2024 at 12:57 pm
Letumbake your grey matter is truly baked, are you serious??? You clowns go to a war of words over anything said derogatory about your namesake hero and try to compare him to a man who’s never started even though during that 6 game losing streak he should’ve. You fools are the true Borgs up here. Whatever the Borg Queen Tonya Harding says you all fall in line with what she says. You fakerbois NEVER criticize Cricket for his sub par play but make up things to make your selves feel better. Nothing worse than you male cheerleaders messing up the game of football
January 14th, 2024 at 1:00 pm
Joe in broke down Michigan, truth ? You can’t handle the truth because you hide behind Cricket’s skrotum
January 14th, 2024 at 1:24 pm
Why is it that most David’s on this site need some kind of psychological help?
January 14th, 2024 at 1:33 pm
I’ll take him! Sign him! The man’s proved himself to me by a lot plus he’s one of the toughest football players on the field today. Go Bucs!
January 14th, 2024 at 1:46 pm
Tony Marks: On behalf of the Bucs Nation and really all of America, thank you for bringing those Baker-Hating, Kyle-Culting and bed-wetting excuses for Bucs “fans” to their knees with your prose. Lol…
January 14th, 2024 at 1:47 pm
Tb bolts Says:
January 14th, 2024 at 12:42 pm
Baker is about to get mega exposed come Monday night. The only mystery is how tony marks will react to his last garbage performance of the season.
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Well I can let you kow right now TB
the divsion title is in the books
the 4000+yards is in the books.
using Joes list
Touchdowns: 7th IN THE BOOKS
Touchdown-to-interception ratio: 10th IN THE BOOKS
winning record IN THE BOOKS
Playoff team IN THE BOOKS
IF Baker toughs it out under multiple injuries and wins – THATS GRAVY
IF The bucs lose
The meal was still MUCHOS Bueno consdering the Haters like yourself predicted faaar less AND in only his first year here and no runnig game.
I know TEAM HATE wants DESPERATELy to make his entire season here all about this one game because they got their reaer ends whooped during the regular season
But until you get a terminator to go back in time
You are stuck with everything else thats
IN THE BOOKS
January 14th, 2024 at 1:58 pm
Ha! I’ll plead guilty 😊 though I never liked star trek past the second generation.
January 14th, 2024 at 1:59 pm
Man, this story and posts has gone to sht. I’m sticking with the CPOY, may be banged up but will give it everything he’s got. Nothing to lose, and trying to close out a memorable season and year that far exceeded expectations.
I think the Bucs are gonna want it more than the boys from Brotherly Love.
January 14th, 2024 at 2:03 pm
WyomingJoe Says:
January 14th, 2024 at 1:46 pm
Tony Marks: On behalf of the Bucs Nation and really all of America, thank you for bringing those Baker-Hating, Kyle-Culting and bed-wetting excuses for Bucs “fans” to their knees with your prose.
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You are welcome my man
Us true Buc fans and saviors of the comment section must do our part to restore Logic , decency and the American way from the wannabe Sith.
“The common sense people you trained, gone they are . Consumed by Mush Vader.”
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January 14th, 2024 at 2:07 pm
Let em bake Says:
January 14th, 2024 at 1:58 pm
Ha! I’ll plead guilty 😊 though I never liked star trek past the second generation.
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NObody came close to Kirk , Spock and Bones.
Especially in the movie releases. Voyage home is still the best by far.
January 14th, 2024 at 2:07 pm
Now I’m not a QB analyst, and I suspect nobody else on this site is – but I find it hard to believe that Trask would have had a better season under centre than Mayfield. He’s less mobile, far less experienced (I.e none) and would undoubtedly have made a ton of rookie mistakes (as they all do). Behind this o-line, with no run support to speak of – it would be miraculous for KT to improve over what BM has done.
I don’t believe KT is the guy because we’ve had three years to look at him and still BM is preferred by the coaching staff. If Trask was ‘the man’ then BM wouldn’t have been brought into Tampa.
January 14th, 2024 at 2:08 pm
“Us true bucs fans” my man you are a baker fan and nothing more lmao you and wyomingbakernuthugger you two can enjoy watching baker get bullied monday. Get the excuses ready its going to be a doozy
January 14th, 2024 at 2:14 pm
“PAY THE MAN”
Are you one of the people who keep posting “Pay the man!” every time we discuss Baker? Take a look at Hurts’ contract and how it will decimate the Eagles’ roster over the next three years.
January 14th, 2024 at 2:17 pm
Throw all those garbage stats out. What is our record in this weak division ? Nearly .500
How Baker has been late in the season ? Garbage.
This all come to end with a loss to Eagles for TB/BM in Tampa.
January 14th, 2024 at 2:21 pm
Tb bolts Says:
January 14th, 2024 at 2:08 pm
Get the excuses ready its going to be a doozy
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You tell em TB!!
We know you will represent with your bad self Monday night
Pizza in hand, popcorn on the ready , beer belly flapping
in the basement with the wife upstair with the milkman
Go eagles GO eagles!
because you A TRUE Bucs fan
January 14th, 2024 at 2:26 pm
David Says:
January 14th, 2024 at 2:17 pm
Throw all those garbage stats out
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WEATHER UPDATE:
Trppical depression number 5 of the roll call of silliness has made a touch down
January 14th, 2024 at 2:32 pm
@ Tony
“NObody came close to Kirk , Spock and Bones.
Especially in the movie releases. Voyage home is still the best by far.”
Come on man!
Stop trying to blow Darth Vader and let’s talk football!
Nobody cares about Star Trek Wars anymore.
Grow the F up.
January 14th, 2024 at 2:34 pm
Davidbigfan99 u r total bs it’s losers like u that give the bucs a bad name I will get my leash out strangle u til u pass out & wake up as a real human u deserve a real chance at a normal life I feel sorry for knuckleheads such as you
January 14th, 2024 at 2:39 pm
Marine Buc Says:
Nobody cares about Star Trek Wars anymore.
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“Star Trek Wars”
Good lawd what a dufus.
January 14th, 2024 at 2:42 pm
@ Tony
What are you wearing right now?
January 14th, 2024 at 2:43 pm
Star Trek Wars pajamas?
Do you have the matching bed sheets?
January 14th, 2024 at 3:05 pm
JA Says:
skewed fan of Baker Mayfield I’ve encountered within these pages, or anywhere for that matter. In your eyes he can do no wrong.
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I can’t account for yout lack of reading Skills JA. I have said multiple times I see baker as around a top 14 to top 12 guy in the right system . This season I could see him in the fuure cracking top ten maybe but never seen him as top five
According to your reading skills however I would have to rank him top five if not number one.
The reason you see people goo all out on defense of baker is not because they think he is perfect or the GOAT but because of the level of IRRATIONAL hate they see spewed agaisnt him
yeah we are RIGHTEOUS group that don’t like unfairness or evil
IF you haters would ahve ben reasonable and logical then you wouldn;t see so much defense. However you mitwits can’t stop at – I dont like him. You always have to go to the idiot level like
“He’s nothing but a good backup in this league”
BY almsot any metric Baker is top twenty among STARTERS and in many top ten
the idea a starter in the top half of the league s is nothing but a backup is just
Stupid
ignorant
drop down sily
dirt for brains
IQ plumetting
terminally math challenged
rubish. However your hate compells you to make such demonstrably silly claims
so you get push back and its well deserved. Cry me a river
January 14th, 2024 at 3:19 pm
@ Tony
To quote the great Luke Solowalker – “Live long and prosper amigo”
January 14th, 2024 at 3:58 pm
@ Marine Buc
Seems the Baker boys are taking your Trek Wars tongue and cheek seriously.
January 14th, 2024 at 4:25 pm
@ BucaneroJim
Hook, line and sinker my man…
It’s just too easy.
January 14th, 2024 at 4:31 pm
Tony Marks,
Im an “ Undiscovered Country” man myself, but voyage home aint bad!
Dont sweat the “anti-Baker” boys. At this point , Benjamin Franklin said it best
“ any fool can complain, condemn, and criticize. And most fools often do!”
January 14th, 2024 at 4:55 pm
-Marine Buc
I remember liking Star Wars and children’s toys when I was in elementary school.
In middle school and continuing on into adulthood my interests changed to girls, friends, girls, sports , girls, food, girls, music, girls, cars, girls, hunting, girls, fishing, girls.
Star Wars doesn’t even register on my Give A F Scale today as a grown man.
January 14th, 2024 at 5:11 pm
Tony is literally calling people who have criticized Baker as evil.
Tony is off his rocker and completely unhinged.
To sane people evil is racism, child abusers, serial killers, slavery, etc… and not people criticizing sports figures.
To insane people and unhinged people like Tony criticizing sports figures is just as evil as racism, child abusers, serial killers, slavery, etc.
January 14th, 2024 at 5:18 pm
The most inconsistent player on the team other than Tryon is Mayfield .
January 14th, 2024 at 5:20 pm
Jordan Love is better than Baker Mayfield and some of y’all want Baker Mayfield back lol 😂😂 make it make sense!!
January 14th, 2024 at 5:41 pm
@ Belle
I know bud.
It kind of gives you a little peek into the maturity levels we sometimes have to deal with here at good ol’ JBF…
LOL.
January 14th, 2024 at 5:50 pm
Todd believed in Baker in March 2018 during draft pick visits to the jets. Browns got their first and Todd had to settle for Darnold.
January 14th, 2024 at 7:01 pm
Capt.Tim Says:
January 14th, 2024 at 4:31 pm
Tony Marks,
Im an “ Undiscovered Country” man myself, but voyage home aint bad!
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Yeah undiscovered country wasn’t too shabby but nothing for me beat the crew back in the 1980s earth
January 14th, 2024 at 7:10 pm
BelleGladeBuc Says:
In middle school and continuing on into adulthood my interests changed to girls, friends, girls, sports , girls, food, girls, music, girls, cars, girls, hunting, girls, fishing, girls
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People usually do have a higher interest in what they can’t get
Its just human nature..
which kinds of explains why you don’t get star wars later releases as an adult – kinda need to have watched it with a woman to get the full charm
not just by yourself with a small bag of popcorn 🙂
January 14th, 2024 at 7:58 pm
Oh, please. The guy is a .500 journeyman. Trask would have been .500 too and we would know what we have. Instead all we know is that the .500 journeyman is just that.
January 14th, 2024 at 7:58 pm
Getting tired of hearing that “The Buc’s played nobody this year”…
Green Bay (whom we stomped) just put a hurt on the Cowboys. Houston (whom we had beat) stomped Cleveland. I think we can beat Philly, as long as we don’t try to play into their strength (D-Line). If we keep trying up the gut on 1st and 2nd down, we lose. Period.
Instead, lets use the same game play we did vs Green Bay. Lots of Play Action rollouts on 1st down. Crossers to Godwin, White, and Otten. Then try to work it deep to Evans or Palmer, or even run a rollout/throwback once in a while. Give White some YAC on short checkdowns. Play MAN on Defense – Philly has no one who should scare us, and Hurt’s hand will limit his downfield throws.
This game will show us if the Coaching Staff can game plan a win, or not. Either way, they’ve earned another season – but I would love to see some growth.
January 14th, 2024 at 8:32 pm
-Tony Marks
Star Wars and Star Trek dorks were Band/Drama/AV geeks that us guys on the football team made fun of in high school.
Movies were for making out with your girl and not for watching.
Popcorn was a waste of money.
Now go write a Star Trek Wars poem to match your Bucs poem and tell us how much more manly you are than us with your prose.
January 14th, 2024 at 9:03 pm
Belleglade buc.
Lol. Fun listening you pretend you were a cool kid. You werent. Anyone as angry and unhappy as you are, was the kid we used to bully. And I doubt you’re shaking down much leg, at your low paying job.
Its always pretty obvious who hates their life, by the way they talk about others. All the Baker haters are angry because he is successful, when everyone said he would lose.
Losers hate to see a potential member leave their club.
Baker has exceeded all expectations. He’s a top ten QB, who took a cap strapped bad team to the playoffs. He may get a long term contract here. I hope so. But he will get a long term contract somewhere.
And all the hate wont change that. Baker proved he is a winner. Naturally, losers are gonna hate that.
January 14th, 2024 at 9:48 pm
BelleGladeBuc Says:
January 14th, 2024 at 8:32 pm
-Tony Marks
Star Wars and Star Trek dorks were Band/Drama/AV geeks that us guys on the football team made fun of in high school.
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what a nitwit – last star wars movie was released 4 years ag and made over a billion dollars ( clearly more than AV guys) and he is still stuck on The Empire Strikes Back.
Latest star trek series was released last year
You aren’t making yourself look cool. You a re making yourself look like a 45+ older dude still stuck in Belle glades who modern culture has passed by just like the game of football has done the same.
January 14th, 2024 at 10:14 pm
Someone is still bitter because the hotties in high school wanted nothing to do with the space dorks.
January 14th, 2024 at 10:38 pm
BelleGladeBuc as jimmy Says:
January 14th, 2024 at 10:14 pm
Someone is still bitter because the hotties in high school
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Even your eye glasses are delusional. There was not then and there is to this day no hotties in Belle Glades unless they already baby mamas.
January 14th, 2024 at 11:28 pm
Baker has been and is inconsistent. Better draft Bo Nix.
January 14th, 2024 at 11:29 pm
Baker Mayfield is just good enough to tease you.
January 14th, 2024 at 11:30 pm
Trask people are funny. They act like the next Ben Roethlisberger is being persecuted by Todd Bowles. Grow up Gator children.
January 15th, 2024 at 7:00 am
@jimmy
If wanting to see what Trask can do makes me a Gator, does wanting to keep playing Mayfield make you a Sooner? Or does it make you an FSU fan? Let us know!
January 15th, 2024 at 8:11 am
-Captain Tim
-Tony Marks
You didn’t bully anyone in school big guy.
I did, because I was an offensive lineman who was tall and really big and really strong all of my life and I really liked hitting and hurting people as well as getting hit and being hurt. I was a poor kid with anger issues who was smart enough to figure out that football was my ticket out of my situation.
Football is for violent people who like to commit violence on another human being and like having violence committed on them. I was good at it and earned a scholarship to a major college football program.
Thankfully I met my bride in college and she helped me become a better person and took me to church, helped me graduate college, and after 30 some years, a few kids and now a bunch of grandkids later I am thankful for her for helping me become a better person.
You said any quarterback who wins a Division Championship in the NFL is a great quarterback.
I asked you if 2020 NFC East Division Champion Quarterback Taylor Heineke was a great quarterback, and like the tough guy you are you ran away from that like a chicken 🐔 and didn’t answer that simple question.
You run like a scared little deer in the woods from a simple question and you expect anyone to seriously believe that you were a bully. 🤣
I love all types of music, but rap is one of my favorites. NWA and Dr. Dre some of my favorites. Dr. Dre is a billionaire who is known worldwide, had a movie made about his career, and he performed at the Super Bowl in what I thought was one of the best halftime shows ever, and yet there are people who hate his music and hated that Super Bowl halftime performance I’m fine with that.
Weird how Star Trek Wars fans are so easily offended by people who don’t like those movies. Shows some real insecurity.
January 15th, 2024 at 11:58 am
-Tony Marks
US Sugar, the largest US exporter of sugar and importer of sugar resides in Belle Glade.
Also, Belle Glade is one of the largest importer and exporters of corn.
The world and the US depend on Belle Glade.
If Belle Glade stops producing corn and sugar the world starves and dies.
Look at how many food products on your grocery store shelves that have corn or sugar or both in them and get back to me.
In the history of ALL US High Schools, Belle Glade and Pahokkee combined, two small rural high schools just separated by a bridge have produced 60 NFL players who have all played in the Muck Bowl and know each other well, including Hall of Famer Ricky Jackson.
That is the most NFL players that any area in the history of the United States High Schools has EVER produced.
For comparison in Florida and nationally the big city upper class rich kid private school of St. Thomas Aquinas has produced 42 NFL football players.
Could you be any more clueless Tony?