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Rough game in Los Angeles.
_The following is a brief summary of some scenes in 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 Baker Mayfield are featured this summer._
\* Rather than veg on the beach or maybe golf as Baker Mayfield said he often does during a bye week, Mayfield goes to New York City to support two of his brothers-in-law who are competing in the New York Marathon. There, Mayfield confesses he is fascinated by subways.
\* Talking with running backs coach Skip Peete in practice prior to the New England game, Mayfield said, “This is when real ball starts.”
\* Speaking after the loss to New England, Mayfield had zero inkling of the collapse the Bucs were about to endure.
\* Sitting in the stands at Buffalo, though she isn’t wearing any Bucs gear, a Bills fan sitting to Emily Mayfield’s immediate left asks, “Are you Tampa fans?”
\* Speaking on camera, Emily Mayfield said she is always worried her husband will get hurt because “He sometimes thinks he’s a running back. … You have to let Baker be Baker.”
\* After the game, Emily Mayfield is trying to console her husband who is still bitter about the loss. “I just can’t throw that interception,” he says.
\* The series does a piece of Mayfield with the Rams in which two days before the game, Mayfield arrived in Los Angeles. Some 70 or 80 plays the Rams were expected to run in the Thursday night game against the Raiders were on Mayfield’s wristband. “Sean didn’t call one single play off that wristband,” Mayfield said of Rams coach Sean McVay.
\* How did McVay respond? With a huge smile he said, “Let’s not let the truth get in the way of a good story. It might be true.”
\* Emily Mayfield said the come-from-behind win engineered by Mayfield on that Thursday night was “The turning point in his career. … He still had it.”
\* When Mayfield initially hurt his left shoulder against the Rams in what he described as a routine tackle, he said it even hurt handing the ball off. After he threw a prayer on the final play of the first half, he lay prone on the turf in pain and knew it was bad.