Baker Mayfield’s Playoff Passer Rating
June 20th, 2026
Wild statistic on Baker Mayfield.
Joe is offering up the following not as an absolute, but for open and frank discussion concerning the Bucs and quarterback Baker Mayfield.
From the Twitter feed of the notorious Dov Kleiman (interesting that many of the well-know, self-inflated members of the #NFLMedia fourth estate rag on Kleiman regularly, but when one of their own gets busted breaking one of the highest canons of journalism ethics, sleeping with your married-to-another-woman source, it’s crickets from the very same self-anointed defenders of democracy) comes a graphic that highlights two interesting numbers from Mayfield.
Would you believe — said in a Maxwell Smart voice — that Mayfield has the highest playoff passer rating of any quarterback in the league?
Now personally, Joe doesn’t put any stock into passer ratings. Why? Go look at career passer ratings.
Anyone over the age of 12 knows Steve Young was a better quarterback than Saint Lamar Jackson, Tom Brady was a better quarterback than Deshaun Watson, Dan Marino was a better quarterback than Tua Tagovailoa, Joe Montana was a better quarterback than Derek Carr, Roger Staubach was a better quarterback than Teddy Bridgewater, Terry Bradshaw was a better quarterback than Geno Smith … and on and on and on the list goes.
So Joe is just going to call it like he sees it: Quarterback ratings, despite what Joe Buck thinks, is unadulterated horse manure.
What matters to Joe is the second number on this list and that is postseason record.
Still, it’s interesting to Joe that he fully expects some people who love to parrot quarterback ratings will be the first to holler if the Bucs sign Mayfield to a contract extension.
We’ll see how much stock the Bucs put in quarterback ratings in the next few months. But yeah, Joe fully believes, one way or another, Mayfield to be taking snaps from center for the Bucs when the 2027 season kicks off.