Baker Mayfield Passing Chart Week 14
December 11th, 2024
Passing breakdown.
Again, Joe loves Bucs offensive coordinator Liam Coen. How could you not?
What Coen has done for this Bucs offense, running, throwing, blocking, is just incredible. The Bucs have improved in every area imaginable on offense.
So the following may sound like nitpicking, but Joe believes it is relevant. It’s pretty well documented that Coen runs a dink-and-dunk offense.
And last week may have been the week Mayfield threw his highest percentages of short passes this season, despite Mike Evans playing.
Mayfield threw just two passes further than 20 yards from the line of scrimmage. The two passes were 25- and 26-yards long. And as Woody Hayes famously said about passing, only three things can happen and two are bad.
Mayfield threw an incompletion and an interception on his two passes longer than 20 yards.
Again, the offense is working. Working well, in fact. So this is almost like asking to fix something that is not broken.
But this dink-and-dunk method in the long run may just cost Mike Evans his coveted streak.