{"id":736663,"date":"2026-02-07T22:46:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T22:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/736663\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T22:46:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T22:46:22","slug":"baker-mayfield-didnt-trust-his-offensive-line-joebucsfan-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/736663\/","title":{"rendered":"Baker Mayfield “Didn’t Trust His Offensive Line” – JoeBucsFan.com"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\tBaker Mayfield \u201cDidn\u2019t Trust His Offensive Line\u201d
\nFebruary 7th, 2026 <\/p>\n

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Is this why Baker Mayfield had a rough second half of the season?<\/p>\n

After the bye week, Mayfield threw 13 touchdowns and 9 interceptions in 9 games. Not good, but it was a different kind of horror show versus the one featuring Jameis Winston throwing 19 touchdowns and 18 interceptions in his final 9 games of the 2019 Bucs season.<\/p>\n

Mayfield had various injuries in his final 9 games. Were the injuries limiting him?<\/p>\n

That\u2019s a mystery, but Bucs legend and official team operative and Xs and Os analyst Rond\u00e9 Barber is adamant that those injuries were a factor, as was Mayfield\u2019s mental state playing behind guys like guards Michael Jordan and Dan Feeney.<\/p>\n

\u201c[The injuries] messed with him and he didn\u2019t trust his offensive line. You could see it. He was jittery. He was quick,\u201d Barber said with passion this week on the WFLA<\/a> streaming show that bears his name.\u201d<\/p>\n

Imagine if a healthy offensive line is all Mayfield needs to get his game right. Throw in a healthy receiving corps and Bucky Irving doing Bucky things, and the Bucs could be a highly dangerous team again in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Baker Mayfield \u201cDidn\u2019t Trust His Offensive Line\u201d February 7th, 2026 Is this why Baker Mayfield had a rough…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2077],"tags":[211,2599,2598,7,6,704,250,2597,2596],"class_list":{"0":"post-736663","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa-bay-buccaneers","8":"tag-buccaneers","9":"tag-bucs-message-boards","10":"tag-bucs-news","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-tampa-bay","14":"tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers","15":"tag-tampabay","16":"tag-tampabaybuccaneers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116031783016260841","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=736663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}