Mayfield after Texans spat: Bucs won't tolerate it

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  • Jenna LaineSep 17, 2025, 04:46 PM ET

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      Jenna Laine covers the Tampa Bay Buccaneers for ESPN. She started covering the Bucs for ESPN successful 2016, but she has covered the squad since 2009. Jenna is simply a erstwhile cheerleader astatine the University of South Florida and speaks to the consistency of the programme arsenic being 1 of the apical champion successful the nation.

TAMPA, Fla. -- Buccaneers backmost Baker Mayfield was asked Wednesday to recount his third-and-10 scramble against the Houston Texans successful which helium got caught by antiaircraft extremity Will Anderson Jr., instantly clutched his near leg, past sprang up and started jawing with information C.J. Gardner-Johnson.

"We don't instrumentality immoderate s---. That's astir it," Mayfield said.

The play happened Monday nighttime with the Bucs up, 14-10. For a moment, it looked similar Mayfield could person been earnestly hurt. But helium continued playing and led them to a 20-19 victory.

Mayfield posted a representation of the play connected his Instagram feed, drafting a effect from Gardner-Johnson, who is coming disconnected a Super Bowl-winning play with the Eagles.

"Boy this cute but inactive ringless," Gardner-Johnson wrote.

Despite taking respective hard hits during the game, Mayfield connected Wednesday said he's fine.

"[I feel] great," helium said. "It's Week 3 successful the NFL. I consciousness great."

He said the aforesaid astir his near leg, which had a compression sleeve connected it portion helium was speaking to the media.

"Good. Great," helium said of the leg.

Mayfield was a afloat subordinate successful the team's walk-through Wednesday, though helium is listed with a foot/toe injury.

His assemblage enactment coach, Dave Matthews, who flies successful from Arizona and has worked with the QB since his clip with the Cleveland Browns, is not coming successful other this week.

"Normal schedule," said Mayfield

The Bucs arsenic a full person a antithetic docket this week, with a walk-through Wednesday to relationship for 1 little betterment time up of Sunday's location opener against the New York Jets.

Also successful Monday's game, Tampa Bay moving backmost Rachaad White took an exceptionally hard deed recovering a Mayfield fumble. He came backmost successful for the precise adjacent series, and past connected the last series, helium ran successful a 2-yard touchdown with 9 seconds near to triumph the game.

"You look astatine that play -- helium took a nasty changeable trying to dive connected the ball," Mayfield said of White. "Obviously a huge, immense play for america being capable to punt it. But yeah, it's guys laying their assemblage connected the enactment -- that worldly screams disconnected the tape. Guys announcement that. You mightiness not accidental thing but you motion your caput like, 'Yeah, that's the benignant of radical we have. We're gonna combat for each different and effort to prime up each different erstwhile we're down."

White was not listed connected the team's wounded study Wednesday.

Starting close tackle Luke Goedeke did not enactment successful the walk-through aft aggravating a ft wounded against the Texans that helium initially suffered successful Week 1. Sources antecedently told ESPN's Jeremy Fowler that helium could miss aggregate weeks.

Rookie wide receiver Emeka Egbuka, who has a league-leading 3 touchdown catches, missed the walk-through with a hip/groin injury.

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