Buccaneers QB Baker Mayfield doesn't care what the odds are
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers aren't the favorite by many sports books to win the NFC South, but Baker Mayfield doesn't care. The Buccaneers are no longer a team that people will keep an eye on at all times, which happens when Tom Brady isn't the quarterback anymore. Now, they are a team everyone expects to […]
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers aren't the favorite by many sports books to win the NFC South, but Baker Mayfield doesn't care.
The Buccaneers are no longer a team that people will keep an eye on at all times, which happens when Tom Brady isn't the quarterback anymore. Now, they are a team everyone expects to just lay over and lose a bunch of games.
The players don't feel that way and actually could care less about the disrespect. Baker Mayfield, the guy replacing Brady, is one of them. The odds aren't in the Buccaneers' favor, but he doesn't care.
“I played in this division last year and I am pretty sure the Bucs won it still, so I don’t really care what the people in Vegas putting odds on it [think] because it’s May," Mayfield told the media on Tuesday. "We haven’t played a real snap of football. There is a long way to go before that. It’s just the time of year where everybody is pretty bored and they don’t really have much to talk about and it makes it fun.”
Of all of the main sports books, like Draft Kings, Ceaser Sportsbooks, Bet MGM, Points Bet, and Fan Duel, all of them have the Buccaneers finishing last in the division. Mind you, the NFC South may be one of the worst divisions in the league too.
In other words, all of the odds makers have the Buccaneers as a bad team, which may very well happen. But at the same time, they were a bad team last season and still won the division, because that's how bad the division was, and very well could be in 2023.
The Buccaneers made a lot of offseason moves with what they were able to work with. They added some young guys through the draft and a veteran quarterback in Mayfield who was a first-overall pick not too long ago.
Mayfield, being on the Browns most of his career, has seen disrespect and odds not favor him pretty often. Even last season with the Panthers, I'm sure he saw it. He knows how the game goes, he knows what to expect, and I think as long as he plays well, the Buccaneers can be a team that competes in the NFC South.
