Bucky Irving
Bucky Irving always ready to roll with Baker Mayfield.
One thing Joe knows from experience: Bucky Irving does not like to talk to reporters after a game.
Joe has tried to talk to Bucky twice after games. Once at his locker in New Orleans. Once after a home game when he tried to sneak out before reporters were allowed into the locker room and Joe cornered him.
Both times Bucky was not at all happy.
But last night it seemed as if Bucky found time to talk to former Bucs running back Shady McCoy and Emmanuel Acho who co-host “Speakeasy,” a live postgame show where they go over each game and speak with some players on winning teams.
There, McCoy and Acho got Bucky to talk about Bucs quarterback Baker Mayfield. Let’s just say Bucky has no fear with Mayfield near.
“Man, that’s my dawg,” Bucky said of Mayfield. “That’s a guy I will take with me into a dark alley because I know he will turn out [OK].
“Those are the type of quarterbacks you want around. They’re competitive, they want to win a football games, man. I will go to war with him any day of the week.”
Joe just finds it so cool that Bucs players, from Lavonte David to Bucky and dozens in between, gravitate to Mayfield. They all admire his grit and determination and guts and bulldog mentality.
And damn if the guy isn’t becoming one of the most clutch quarterbacks in the league, whether it is his timely running for first downs or his fourth-quarter touchdowns.
The last time a quarterback led a team on game-winning drives with less than two minutes left in back-to-back road games was none other than Dan Marino himself in 1999.
Pretty cool company for Mayfield.
Bucky Irving says he will, "go to war with [Baker Mayfield] any day".
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