with Aileen Hnatiuk<\/a> of WFLA-TV.<\/p>\nWill it get to Baker? Will it affect his routines? Wirfs said the Bucs already had a full preview in 2023 \u2014 when Mayfield played on a one-year, prove-it contract.<\/p>\n
\u201cEven the first time around, it didn\u2019t really affect him, like how he approached every day \u2014 how he interacted with any of us, how he went out to practice. It never affected him that way,\u201d Wirfs said.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut, yeah, I don\u2019t know a ton about it. Obviously, I want him to be here for a long time. I want him to be my quarterback for a long time. So, I hope things work out for him and with the whole contract situation. But I know he\u2019s still the same guy who\u2019s coming in here day in and day out and leading us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wirfs said he\u2019s aware Mayfield set a contract-extension deadline of Day 1 of training camp, aka July 30. Per Wirfs, that is Mayfield\u2019s way of telling teammates he\u2019s all about them. \u201cHey, like when the season\u2019s here, I\u2019m all ball,\u201d is how Wirfs described the Mayfield mentality.<\/p>\n
Joe expects Mayfield to accept a Bucs offer this summer. The deadline, though, is a bit goofy. If Mayfield thinks contract chatter could distract him in early August, then what the hell is going to happen in December or January if Mayfield knows he\u2019s got to perform because hundreds of millions are on the line?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tristan Wirfs Talks Baker Mayfield Contract Chase June 20th, 2026 Yes, Bucs players are aware Baker Mayfield seeks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":716372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[5961,5960,349,99,1824],"class_list":["post-716371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-bucs-message-boards","tag-bucs-news","tag-nfl","tag-sports","tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716371","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=716371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/716372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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<\/a>Yes, Bucs players are aware Baker Mayfield seeks to become the highest paid athlete in the history of Tampa Bay Sports.<\/p>\n