Baker Mayfield Talks “Killer Instinct”
June 10th, 2025
Nine weeks ago Todd Bowles talked about the Bucs lacking “killer instinct.” and players must be the ones to enhance it.
Joe asked Baker Mayfield about that today.
“You know, a lot of times we would start fast, there’s always that lull,” Mayfield said after practice at One Buc Palace. “And I think in the past two years of me being here, overall, if you stand back and look at the beginning of the season to the middle of the season, it’s not getting satisfied. Always hitting the reset button for the next week … But that killer instinct, it doesn’t matter what we’re doing. We’ve got to put teams away when we’re ahead.”
Mayfield added that the Bucs’ killer-instinct fails have nothing to do with preparation. He says they’re just about execution, especially later in seasons when little new is being drawn up week to week.
Joe hopes the Bucs find that secret sauce to be more consistent and, frankly, more badass. A third consecutive roller coaster season would be very rough on Joe’s health.