Four weeks into the NFL season and the most unexpected development in the entire league — even more than the NFL entering its Taylor Swift Era — is that on Sunday Baker Mayfield was lecturing his Tampa Bay teammates to guard against … overconfidence.
Yes, the left-for-dead, post-Tom Brady Bucs. Yes, Mayfield, the discarded former Cleveland Brown who no one was certain would even beat Kyle Trask out for the starting job.
Mayfield certainly knows about both. He won a Heisman at Oklahoma. He was the Browns No. 1 draft pick and with fiery, excellent play was heralded as a franchise savior. He became such a national darling, he and his wife Emily lived at the stadium, at least in high-rotation national television commercials.
Mayfield was traded out of town for a fifth rounder and spent part of 2022 in Carolina before getting released and then hooking on late as a stopgap for the injury-decimated Los Angeles Rams. He went just 2-8 as a starter last season. Mayfield was talking after a 25-for-32, 246-yard, three touchdown passing performance against the Saints defense. He added 31 yards rushing and showed plenty of toughness and leadership by getting up after some backbending hits.“Bake is tough,” coach Todd Bowles said. “He fits in here. He understands the offense very well. The guys love to play for him and he works for us.”
It’s early of course — “only the first quarter of the season,” Bowles noted. Still, “3-1 is better than 1-3,” the coach acknowledged. If nothing else, a believed to be lost season is anything but.
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