The Tampa Bay Buccaneers fell 20-6 to the Detroit Lions on Sunday afternoon, and Buccaneers quarterback Baker Mayfield had quite a brutal assessment of the team’s performance on Sunday.
During the postgame press conference, Baker Mayfield got pretty candid about his performance, admitting that he “sucked” against the Lions.
“We sucked today,” Mayfield said according to Rick Stroud of the Tampa Bay Times. “I sucked today. We sucked today. It was awful from the get-go. Can’t play like that. We didn’t start fast. We didn’t pick it up in the middle and we didn’t finish strong. We have to be better.
“The Lions are a good ball club that if we play like that, we’re going to lose every time. We played good defense, the special teams [did] an amazing job again, and the offense — we just need to pick our shit up. It’s really no other way around it.”
It’s a brutal admission about his performance, but Mayfield isn’t necessarily wrong in his assessment. He completed just 19 of his 37 passing attempts with one interception and failed to lead his team to a single touchdown – it was certainly not one of the better performances of his NFL career.
We’ll have to see if he can bounce back next game.
