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MVP candidate.
_The following is a brief summary of some scenes from the Netflix series “Quarterback,” a “Hard Knocks”-like look at NFL quarterbacks. Cameras tail them on and off the field. Joe Flacco, Cam Ward, Jayden Daniels and Mayfield are featured this summer._
\* After various clips are broadcast of Pat McAfee, Colin Cowherd, Kyle Brandt and others talking up Mayfield as having his best season and atop MVP lists, Mayfield said he learned at Oklahoma that individual awards are in reality team awards. That if the team does well, the individual accolades will come. So he noted the MVP chatter was the result of his teammates playing well.
\* Before the 49ers game in a WAGs bus, Emily Mayfield noted pregame is different when she’s carrying a baby. Because the non-alcoholic beers don’t “take the edge off” like the real thing. “These don’t get the job done,” she later said from her suite. Emily Mayfield still shot gunned her NA beer with the Bucs WAGs like her husband. Not drinking does give her the opportunity to “play bartender.” Shots are mandatory for all the ladies when the Bucs score unless they are pregnant, she declared.
\* In the huddle early in the game, Baker Mayfield says, “Let’s score 50. Impose your will.” Aw man, Mayfield missed a perfect opportunity to channel Sooners legend Barry Switzer when he used to holler before Oklahoma games, “Let’s go hang half-a-hundred on their asses!”
\* After throwing a touchdown pass to Kam Johnson against San Francisco, Mayfield hollered, “F@CK YEAH, MAN! I’M A F@CKING DAWG!” Mayfield was drilled late on the play and a roughing-the-passer flag was thrown. From her suite, Emily Mayfield laughs and says, “You can’t do that!”
\* When Kindle Vildor picked off 49ers quarterback Mac Jones near the far sideline and appeared to have a chance to house it, but kept falling down, Baker Mayfield hollered from the Bucs sidelines, “Get up you motherf@cker!”
\* When Mayfield throws his touchdown bomb down the middle to Tez Johnson, Tony Romo on the CBS broadcast says, “If I was the crowd, I’d be chanting ‘MVP’ right now.” Unknowingly to Bucs fans in the stadium, they heeded Romo’s words and obliged.
\* After the game, Teddy Bridgewater told Mayfield that he’s an “assassin.”
\* In the Lions game, Mayfield said the Lions crossed up the Bucs and played mostly man-to-man. Mayfield said the offense felt like it was a step behind all night. “It’s never a good feeling.” He added he reaggravated his bone bruise that he suffered in Houston.
\* Mike Evans’ devastating injury was not referenced. Not once. Not one clip. It was like it never happened.