Baker Mayfield Explains Game-Ending Pick
December 21st, 2025
Bucs QB Baker Mayfield.
Baker Mayfield appeared on the Buccaneers Radio Network after the game and explained what he thought happened on the game-ending (season-ending?) interception late in the loss to the Stinking Panthers.
You can see on the replay from the Bucs’ end zone angle that Mayfield had to avoid traffic and briefly moved before launching the pass off-balance.
He was trying to get the ball to Mike Evans. It was a classic not-on-the-same-page play. Mayfield threw left, Evans broke inside to the right of Mayfield.
Mayfield said he thought Evans was under the impression Mayfield was going to scramble. Apparently, when a quarterback scrambles, Evans was supposed to break off his route and run to a different spot.
Mayfield made it clear he could fully understand why Evans thought he was going to scramble.
That’s two straight games to division rivals, lesser teams, in which Mayfield has thrown an ugly interception in the fourth quarter.
Those two losses likely will cost the Bucs not just a playoff berth, but perhaps more important to the bean counters at One Buc Palace, cost the Bucs a home playoff game and the millions of dollars in revenue that comes with it.
That tends to get people’s attention rather quickly.