I haven't listened to the podcast yet, but another site is reporting on it:
Mayfield described the team as "stressed out" in that last year and then was asked, "[w]hat’s the craziest or funniest Brady story you’ve heard?” asked co-host Tyler Casagrade.
"You hear some of the stories about (pause) if [Brady] didn’t like a certain playcall and he didn’t like it throughout the week and they still called it in the game, there might have been a throwaway on purpose or throwing it at the running back or receiver’s feet,” Mayfield said. “There’s a lot of mind games going on.”
According to the other site, "Mayfield didn’t dispute the hosts’ assertion that Brady was a de facto offensive coordinator with the Bucs."
FWIW, Bowles has alluded to the same things and even Arians made a comment about the play calling.
Still very worth it for the Lombardi, but there was way more going on in 2022 than most thought.
Think this is fair. Different situation so he was a good fit.
“The building was a little bit different with Tom in there,” Mayfield said of Bucs headquarters with Brady. “Obviously, playing-wise, Tom is different. He had everybody dialed in, high-strung environment, so I think everybody was pretty stressed out.
“So for me, and everybody was expecting the Bucs to not be good last year, they wanted me to come in, be myself, bring the joy back to football a little bit for guys that weren’t having as much fun, and just continue to raise the competition level. They just asked me to be myself. As a player, you really can’t ask for much more than that.”
I watched the video, Mayfield didn’t really dish, he just mentioned what he was told.
The comment about shutting plays down he didn’t like were second hand and was more like “c’mon, it’s Tim Brady …” my recollection was he stayed away from the defacto OC question.
Mayfield seemed to be making the point that he wasn’t going to be Tom Brady, and nobody asked him to, but he could just be himself.
It was a good lunchtime watch.
Im sure it was stressful playing for Brady but ultimately every single one of those guys in the 2020 team is grateful for the opportunity as they have a SuperBowl ring
guys like David and Evans endured the shit years
Guys like Wirfs and AWJ endured nothing but playoffs but the older guys likely telling them, hey man it could be much worse, you are lucky right now...and still...just have the ring from their rookie years and likely the only ring they may get!
in terms of Brady, the dude was playing at MVP level his first 2 years for us. those were awesome times and we were the talk of every sports show.
his last year was shit and not enjoyable to watch. Hard to not be happy with this year thus far but let me remind you we were 3-1 last year until a 1-6 slide so hopefully we can be consistent and keep it going looking like a good team.
The Bucs are playing with house money with the Baker Mayfield era and they know it. they were supposed to be shit last year and won a playoff game. This year, so far exceeding expectations with that road Detroit win; but we are back at expectations if they somehow lose to Bo Nix and the Broncos.
he stayed away from the defacto OC question.
I would think so too just by the way the other outlet phrased it
Definitely not dishing. He is a good interview, man.
Said we would win the division and "be playing in February."
Richard Sherman chimes in with the (obvious) response perhaps: they are both telling the truth:
“Both of them spoke facts,” Sherman said.
“You know, it’s perspective. Everything’s perspective. … Tom Brady is a really fun guy. He’s not some dictator in the locker room, but he is a guy that holds everybody to a high standard — his receivers, his offensive line, his coaches, his offensive coordinators, his training staff, everybody in the building. Sure, that’s going to be stressful. But he gives you that kind of performance, that kind of effort, where you got to deal with a little bit of stressful.”
“But he’s not wrong,” Sherman said of Baker. “Like Baker, if you walked into the building and everybody was stressed, but they got rings on their fingers, maybe the stress is what they need. Maybe that’s the kick in the butt they need because that pushed them to where they needed to go. Because the difference between a Super Bowl championship team and just a good team is inches. It’s details. It’s attention to detail. And Tom was incredible about those things. He made sure.”
and the best truth is in bold.
