'You're just poking the bear': Bucs' Wirfs recalls fan heckling Baker in Seattle

TAMPA, Fla. -- Tampa Bay Buccaneers All-Pro near tackle Tristan Wirfs offered his thoughts Thursday connected the viral video of backmost Baker Mayfield's trash-talking speech with a Seattle Seahawks instrumentality past Sunday, saying helium thinks the heckler needs to elevate his crippled to lucifer that of his Pro Bowl quarterback.

Wirfs, who was lasting adjacent to Mayfield astatine the clip the instrumentality began trying to provoke him, said his volition was conscionable to disregard him. Wirfs thinks that was Mayfield's, too.

"[Baker] wasn't saying thing astatine first, truthful I was similar I won't accidental anything," said Wirfs, who simply smiled.

That's erstwhile Mayfield clapped back, exclaiming, "You're gonna beryllium existent f---ing quiescent astatine halftime. You're a f---ing p---y."

Wirfs said they were fixed a heads-up astir the heckler -- raising his expectations for what specified an enactment mightiness entail. But helium was yet disappointed successful the level of competition.

"A person of that feline similar won the lottery and bought play tickets to the Seahawks, I guess. So, they said, 'Hey there's gonna beryllium a feline similar chirping,'" Wirfs said. "And helium didn't person anything. Like his worldly was f---ing s---. Pardon my connection but it was brutal. Like if you're gonna beryllium a heckler, you got to measurement your crippled up. And Bake conscionable benignant of fto him cognize that, and it was beauteous cool. It was beauteous cool. I was conscionable laughing, like, 'You're conscionable poking a bear.'"

Bucs near tackle Tristan Wirfs connected the Seahawks instrumentality chirping astatine Baker Mayfield: "He didn't person anything. Like his worldly was f--ing sh-. Pardon my connection but it was brutal. Like if you're gonna beryllium a heckler, you gotta measurement your crippled up. And Bake conscionable kinda fto him cognize that." pic.twitter.com/7XgxMQZXiE

Wirfs witnessed the carnivore travel retired of hibernation, arsenic Mayfield hadn't been shown successful immoderate specified incidents successful his 3 years with the Buccaneers.

As for his quarterbacking performance, Mayfield threw 2 touchdowns successful summation to moving backmost Rachaad White's 2 scores connected the crushed successful a 38-35 victory. Mayfield wounded up signaling the second-highest completion percent of his vocation astatine 87.9% -- the highest of immoderate NFL backmost truthful acold this play and a franchise grounds for a Bucs backmost with 30 oregon much walk attempts.

When asked if different fans should refrain from antagonizing Mayfield, Wirfs said: "I don't know. I mean, they tin try. That's p...