Another Rage Game For Baker Mayfield
November 7th, 2025
Baker Mayfield loves to dig up old wounds and feed off them.
Heck, after the Bucs beat the Jets in Week 3, Mayfield ranted about how the Jets defensive coordinator cut him off the Panthers’ roster three years ago.
That seemed to come from nowhere, considering Jets defensive coordinator Steve Wilks was the Panthers interim head coach in 2022 with Mayfield.
Wilks was presiding over a team that Carolina ownership was dismantling. The team was tanking and already had traded Christian McCaffrey and others. Plus, everybody knows an interim head coach has as much power over a roster as former Bucs head coach Raheem Morris did with Tampa Bay in 2009. Bucs ownership had made a decision to toss veterans to the curb.
Wilks even fired back to say Mayfield was reaching for nonsense.
That brings Joe to Sunday.
Josh McDaniels is the Patriots offensive coordinator who will try to dissect the Bucs defense. McDaniels also is the guy who was the Raiders head coach in 2023, when the Raiders needed a starting quarterback. Did he sign Mayfield? No. Instead the Raiders gave Jimmy Garoppolo a three-year $72.5 million contract while Mayfield got a bag of cashews and the right to allegedly compete with Kyle Trask in Tampa.
Given how Mayfield’s brain works, Joe believes Mayfield has serious beef with McDaniels, especially considering their history.