Is Baker Mayfield’s future with Tampa Bay in jeopardy?

Yahoo Sports Daily hosts Caroline Fenton and Jason Fitz discuss if Baker Mayfield’s future in Tampa Bay is in jeopardy after the Buccaneers fourth straight loss. Watch the full episode of Yahoo Sports Daily on YouTube or YahooSports.TV.

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Baker melted down in this game.

Had some throws that he just didn’t need to make.

The Dolphins with Quinn Ewers take a 20-17 win, which by the way, for a Dolphins team that a month ago everybody was convinced was gonna fire everybody and completely clean house, the Dolphins have gotten up to 7-9 and the Buccaneers now are down to 7-9 in a wildly disappointing finish for their season.

Uh, it’s, it has been something that I think we need to study, the decline of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

It wasn’t that long ago that you and I were talking about Baker being in the lead for the MVP race.

We were talking about Tampa Bay, can they win a Super Bowl?

The question was never, will the Tampa Bay Buccaneers hold onto Baker Mayfield for the foreseeable future and will the Tampa Bay Buccaneers make the playoffs?

‘Cause now it all comes down to that matchup with Carolina next week in week 18, which I’m very excited about.

Like I’m glad we get football that matters in week 18.

But this isn’t how this year was supposed to go for the Bucs.

And you can chalk it up to injuries, I do think that’s a big part of it, whether it was to Chris Godwin or Mike Evans or on the offensive line or to Baker himself, Baker doesn’t look right and this team doesn’t look right.

I do want to give all the credit in the world though to the Dolphins.

Quinn Ewers looked pretty good.

Like Quinn Ewers, uh, I think might have some there there.

Are the Dolphins gonna run it back with Quinn Ewers next season?

I don’t know.

But I think that we can have that conversation in the off season just based off of a very small sample size that we’ve seen from Quinn Ewers.

So I want to give credit to Miami, but I mean, this was a Bucs team that w- what were the odds for them to win the division going into the season?

-300?

-350?

I know things change and I know that odds, you know, don’t really mean that much, but that was the public perception of this Bucs team.

It never was a question of if they were going to win the division.

It was never a question of if they’d make the postseason.

And now the Bucs just feel like a very flat team.

A tradition like no other.

By the way, the Bucs were a plus 100 division preseason, uh, we find out.

Uh, producer Josh apparently- Bucs?

… had a ticket on it.

Uh, had, had, had a ticket on it.

But they, uh, that would’ve made them the favorites still- Plus 100?

… at the… Plus 100.

That still would’ve made them the, the shortest odds, uh, uh, uh, 100%.

But I, I will say this.

A tradition like no other, if there’s one thing you can count on, either the AFC South or the NFC South, there’s always buried in the early playoff game.

Uh, we get a, a little example of that this weekend as they have flex scheduled the, the final weekend of the season as they always do.

The Saturday afternoon game, the first of the games is Carolina at Tampa Bay.

Is Baker Mayfield’s future with Tampa Bay in jeopardy?

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