{"id":412758,"date":"2026-09-28T12:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T12:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/412758\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T12:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T12:56:14","slug":"tampa-bay-buccaneers-news-baker-mayfield-injury-signals-rock-bottom-for-bucs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/412758\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay Buccaneers news: Baker Mayfield injury signals rock bottom for Bucs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are disappointed after a Week 3 loss against the Minnesota Vikings at Raymond James Stadium.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Buccaneers not only lost their third straight game to start the season, but they also saw quarterback Baker Mayfield suffer a thumb injury that could hold him out for some time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Bucs Nation, how do you feel about the Bucs after their game against the Vikings in Week 3? Let us know in the comments section below.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s Buccaneers news<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The Bucs had some positives amidst the negatives in their game against the Vikings. However, a losing result is what the team will take away the most.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Despite starting 0-3, the Bucs are just one game back in the NFC South standings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Vikings wide receiver Justin Jefferson left the game against the Bucs with an ankle injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">An early candidate for \u201cGame of the Year\u201d came in Week 3 as the Baltimore Ravens stunned the Dallas Cowboys with a last-second field goal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Tampa Bay Buccaneers are disappointed after a Week 3 loss against the Minnesota Vikings at Raymond James&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":412759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,2989,137,136],"class_list":["post-412758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers-news","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=412758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}