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Pays back his old team.
Former Bucs cornerback Carlton Davis got payback.
Back in 2024 the Bucs shipped out Davis, a former Bucs long-time starting cornerback, to Detroit. Davis, like most people living in Florida, wasn’t happy about leaving.
And Davis hurt his old team last Sunday, to hear Bucs offensive coordinator Josh Grizzard.
Today, Grizzard endured his weekly press conference. He was asked about a failed Bucs’ two-point conversion against New England. Baker Mayfield threw a short pass to Tez Johnson to the right side from 10 yards out to pull within 21-16 late in the third quarter.
The Bucs decided to try for two in an effort to make the difference a field goal game. Emeka Egbuka took a reverse and sprinted to the right. It looked to Joe at the time that the target was supposed to be Baker Mayfield as he was briefly open along the right sideline.
Egbuka tried to throw but there was too much traffic from the Patriots’ defense.
Grizzard admitted today that is exactly what he wanted: Throw to Mayfield in the end zone for two. And Grizzard fingered Davis for blowing the play up.
> “Unfortunate,” Grizzard said of the failed conversion. “Very unfortunate. Carlton Davis, he saw it.
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> “He just stayed on the backside of that. We were trying to throw it to Baker.”
So Joe was right: Mayfield was the intended target.
Grizzard wouldn’t comment further about the play, other than to say, “It did not work.”
So Davis came home again last Sunday. And got a measure of payback.