Baker Mayfield Is On To New Orleans
December 4th, 2025
Locked in.
Baker Mayfield is locked in.
Yesterday in Mayfield’s weekly press conference, the Sage of Tampa Bay sports, famed JoeBucsFan.com columnist Ira Kaufman, tried to get Mayfield to talk about the Stinking Panthers. Twice.
Mayfield wasn’t biting.
A main story around the NFL in the wake of last weekend’s games is that the Stinking Panthers are not just nipping at the ankles of the Bucs, they are breathing down their necks.
The three-game losing streak by the Bucs last month enabled the Stinking Panthers to pull within a half-game of Tampa Bay. Then Carolina beats the Rams, the very same team that seal-clubbed the Bucs a week prior.
Uh, oh.
First, Ira tried to ask Mayfield about former Bucs offensive coordinator and current Stinking Panthers coach Dave Canales. Mayfield was uninterested.
“We’ve got the Saints this week,” Mayfield said. “Dave can do what he wants.”
Realizing Mayfield was dismissing his question, Ira followed up saying how the Bucs have to play the Stinking Panthers two weeks from Sunday. Mayfield was unimpressed.
“Yeah… not yet,” Mayfield said. “We play the Saints this week.”
When you hate a team as much as the Bucs dislike the slimy Saints, you don’t look past them, you look forward to stomping their arses.
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