{"id":347572,"date":"2025-12-14T03:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T03:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/347572\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T03:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T03:50:08","slug":"shaun-king-blasts-bucs-effort-directs-blame-at-baker-mayfield-and-overpaid-players-joebucsfan-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/347572\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaun King Blasts Bucs&#8217; Effort, Directs Blame At Baker Mayfield And Overpaid Players &#8211; JoeBucsFan.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tShaun King Blasts Bucs\u2019 Effort, Directs Blame At Baker Mayfield And Overpaid Players<br \/>\nDecember 13th, 2025 <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/LichtKing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-159035\" class=\"wp-image-159035\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/LichtKing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"152\"   \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-159035\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ex-Bucs quarterback Shaun King alongside Buccaneers Ring of Honor GM Jason Licht.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It\u2019s dangerous territory when the \u201cE\u201d word gets thrown around by former players questioning current players\u2019 effort. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">That\u2019s the kind of stuff that drives major change, including those coaching said team.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Former Bucs QB Shaun King, a lifelong Bucs fan from St. Petersburg, is frustrated by the Bucs and thinks they\u2019ve got too manyoverpaid and underdelivering players.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cEverybody on our defense that\u2019s been eligible to get a bag has got a bag, and they be out there like they don\u2019t give a good god damn,\u201d King told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thecoachjbshow\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Coach JB Show yesterday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cA debacle like that on Thursday Night Football where you\u2019re up 28-14 with everything at stake you just fall on your face? \u2026 We made Kyle Pitts look like the reincarnation of prime Tony Gonzalez. Like are you kidding me?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">One of four quarterbacks to lead the Bucs to the NFC Championship game, King added that a showing like Thursday puts Todd Bowles in danger of getting fired.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">King, the former University of South Florida quarterbacks and running backs coach, said Baker Mayfield has been playing poorly for weeks and is pressing and becoming inaccurate.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">It got real bad Thurdsay for Mayfield, per King.\u00a0\u201cI haven\u2019t seen him that uncomfortable in the pocket for no reason in a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shaun King Blasts Bucs\u2019 Effort, Directs Blame At Baker Mayfield And Overpaid Players December 13th, 2025 Ex-Bucs quarterback&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347573,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[5961,5960,349,99,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-347572","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-bucs-message-boards","9":"tag-bucs-news","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}