Baker Mayfield will be fine.
Joe is still stunned by this and it seems folks who work at the Mouse Outfit are, too.
And there’s nothing like building content on content you have artificially manufactured.
On the weekday morning show on BSPN “Stay in Bed,” a gaggle of analysts debated if the Bucs really are the No. 1 team in the land. Mike Greenberg seemed to think so.
The consensus was the Bucs have learned how to win close games with backups. That’s a good thing. And that should really help them down the stretch when the Bucs are healthier and playing games that could directly determine their playoff seeding, or the actual playoff games themselves.
Dan Graziano noted people forget the Bucs are going for a five-peat as the NFC South champs. Greenberg noted the core of the Bucs’ Super Bowl-winning season in 2020 is still on the team. So it is not like the Bucs have been totally rebuilt.
All of this stems from the near-unbelievable power ranking BSPN gave the Bucs as being the [No. 1 team](https://www.joebucsfan.com/2025/10/bspn-bucs-are-no-1/) in the NFL after six weeks.