{"id":363301,"date":"2025-12-22T08:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T08:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/363301\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T08:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T08:13:10","slug":"baker-mayfield-explains-game-ending-pick-joebucsfan-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/363301\/","title":{"rendered":"Baker Mayfield Explains Game-Ending Pick – JoeBucsFan.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\tBaker Mayfield Explains Game-Ending Pick
\nDecember 21st, 2025 <\/p>\n

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Bucs QB Baker Mayfield.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

You can see on the replay from the Bucs\u2019 end zone angle that Mayfield had to avoid traffic and briefly moved before launching the pass off-balance.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Mayfield made it clear he could fully understand why Evans thought he was going to scramble.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s two straight games to division rivals, lesser teams, in which Mayfield has thrown an ugly interception in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

That tends to get people\u2019s attention rather quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Baker Mayfield Explains Game-Ending Pick December 21st, 2025 Bucs QB Baker Mayfield. Baker Mayfield appeared on the Buccaneers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":363302,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[5961,5960,349,99,1824],"class_list":{"0":"post-363301","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\/363301","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=363301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/363302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}