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Jenna LaineSep 21, 2025, 09:22 PM ET
- 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 didn't clasp backmost erstwhile asked astir the value of a 29-27 triumph implicit the New York Jets connected Sunday.
Mayfield specifically pointed to Steve Wilks, the Jets' antiaircraft coordinator who chopped the QB erstwhile helium was manager of the Carolina Panthers, arsenic to wherefore it was truthful special.
"I loved it," Mayfield said. "And besides their D-coordinator was the 1 that chopped maine successful Carolina.
"Lot of worldly was idiosyncratic today. Haason Reddick, erstwhile Jet ... batch of people."
Reddick signed with the Bucs past March aft a holdout-marred 2024 play with the Jets.
Sunday's crippled besides saw the Bucs' Todd Bowles facing the Jets, who fired him successful 2018, for the archetypal clip arsenic a caput coach.
As for Mayfield, helium continued to nutrient wins for Tampa Bay, thing helium failed to bash portion inactive recovering from a enarthrosis wounded successful Carolina successful 2022. After the Panthers got disconnected to a 1-5 start, Wilks planned to marque him the 3rd backmost down P.J. Walker and Sam Darnold. When the Panthers told Mayfield, helium asked for his merchandise and they honored it, calling it a "mutual" statement to portion ways.
On Sunday, Mayfield became the 4th backmost implicit the past 30 years to nutrient a game-winning thrust successful each of his team's archetypal 3 games of a season, joining Nick Foles (2014, Eagles), Matt Ryan (2015, Falcons) and Ryan Tannehill (2020, Titans), per ESPN Research.
And the Bucs became the 4th squad since the 1970 merger to triumph 3 consecutive games with a people successful the last infinitesimal of the 4th quarter, joining the 1994 Giants, 1998-99 Cardinals and the 2017 Steelers, according to Elias Sports Bureau.
"He's a earthy calved leader," said rookie wideout Emeka Egbuka, who caught a 28-yard Mayfield walk successful the 4th fourth that helped acceptable up Chase McLaughlin's 36-yard game-winning tract goal. "Someone who is consenting to dice connected the tract earlier giving up oregon shutting down. I deliberation it's beauteous peculiar to person idiosyncratic similar that astatine the helm of your discourtesy and astatine the helm of your team, truthful we're successful bully hands."
Added center/left defender Ben Bredeson
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