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Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Baker Mayfield has a reputation as the NFL's fiercest trash talker, and now there's even more footage to back it up.
Two weeks ago, Netflix dropped the third season of "Quarterback" featuring Mayfield, Cleveland Browns/Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Flacco, Tennessee Titans quarterback Cam Ward, and Washington Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels. The documentary series shadowed the four QBs throughout the 2025 NFL season.
"To be honest with you, I didn't watch the full series," Mayfield told reporters at Buccaneers training camp. "They sent all the clips of us in it, just to give the final OK. Um, apologies to the families with little kiddos because the language on there is actually not very suited for them."
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Mayfield continued:
"[I] might be a little angry elf on the field every once in a while, so that's probably the part that I do regret a little bit. That's the fire on the field, unfortunately, that comes out on TV. But, yeah, I wanted to portray that I'm all ball. You can say what you want in the media — you can say that I'm cocky, and whatever — but it's all ball. I love my teammates, I love this game, and I love playing it."
Mayfield will be pretty intense this upcoming season because it is the final year on his contract, and the Buccaneers did not sign him to an extension before his training camp deadline.
"I wanted a deal done and set the deadline and them it was gonna be all ball after that, and I did mean that," Mayfield said elsewhere in his Thursday presser, later adding that it's "disappointing [...] to feel undervalued after thinking you've earned it."
"I think I'm a franchise quarterback," he added. "I've been told I'm a franchise quarterback. It's been said from ownership down here, and so to not have a deal done is very disappointing. But I said the deadline is the deadline."
The Buccaneers will open their 2026 regular-season schedule against the Cincinnati Bengals in Cincinnati on Sunday, Sept. 13.
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