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“That You Don’t See Much Out Of A Quarterback”

June 1st, 2025

Baker Mayfield is no Tom Brady or Jameis Winston.

That’s the word from one of his Tampa Bay teammates.

If you think Mayfield is going to fire up players with a big speech or be dissecting his comrades’ games to make them better, Mayfield is not your guy, so says Lavonte David.

Per David’s chat with Mina Kimes on her podcast, Mayfield is very different from his predecessor Tom Brady.

“Tom was a leader who, you know, he would talk to you. He’ll come to you, ‘Hey, this and that and that.’ Talk to you, more vocal type guy and get on you when you’re not doing something right, and stuff like that. But Baker is a lead by example type guy,” David said.

“That you don’t see much out of a quarterback. And, you know, when I saw that and the way he puts in work, the way he’s grinding out there at practice, his mentality. … I love it, though, man, just his grit, how he grinds and puts the team on his back type thing.”

“He’s not going to talk. He’s not going to give you the speech; he’s just going to go out there and prove it. And that’s what I love to see out of him.”

Mayfield is not the dude to rehearse for a pregame show; he won’t be eating his fingers anytime soon. And he won’t be getting into technique much with players like Brady did.

However, Joe was told by a reliable source that Mayfield got the ear of a struggling teammate last season and helped the guy get to a better place.

Mayfield will talk. It’s a just a different kind of leadership, as David noted, the kind less typical of an alpha QB.