Bucs HC explains how Mayfield has reached ‘one other stage’
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
quarterback Baker Mayfield is working together with his third offensive coordinator in three seasons with the group after Liam Coen left the Buccaneers to turn into the top coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars final winter. That stated, Mayfield clearly grew comfy with present OC Josh Grizzard when Grizzard was Tampa Bay’s cross recreation coordinator beneath Coen.
Mayfield handed for 256 yards and two touchdowns with zero interceptions to information the Buccaneers to a 30-19 victory over the San Francisco 49ers that improved Tampa Bay to 5-1 on Sunday. Following that consequence, Buccaneers head coach Todd Bowles spoke with Albert Breer of Sports activities Illustrated about the place Mayfield is as we speak in comparison with the place the signal-caller was roughly 12 months in the past.
Baker Mayfield’s “maturity stage” has improved with Buccaneers
“Being in the identical offense two years in a row, he actually makes extra strategies and may verify into performs to get us into the suitable play on his personal than he has prior to now,” Bowles stated about Mayfield. “So the maturity stage from a play-calling standpoint has actually taken him into one other stage. And he needs to be nice that approach. I believe he’s embraced that problem and he’s displaying it each week.”
As Kevin Patra of the NFL’s web site talked about, Mayfield was with out key receivers Mike Evans, Chris Godwin and Jalen McMillan earlier than rookie and momentary WR1 Emeka Egbuka went down with a hamstring harm on Sunday. Mayfield responded to such setbacks by making a pair of highlight-reel performs within the recreation’s third quarter, the second of which was a 45-yard landing cross to 2025 seventh-round draft selection Tez Johnson. In response to Breer, Johnson adjusted his route based mostly on the protection earlier than Mayfield launched his greatest cross of the afternoon:
