Could Baker Mayfield take a step back in 2025?
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Charles, what about you with this Bucks offense?
What are you focusing on?
What grabs your attention?
Reasons for optimism, reasons for pessimism, any of those?
Reasons for pessimism are I just envision this as an offense where Baker Mayfield has a heavier portion of the plate than they did last year, and I've seen that too many times for seasons at this time.
This is Baker's 7th season in the NFL.
I mean, we're talking about if Tristan Werth is down for the first month of the season, I mean, you don't, you don't know, I, I would imagine it's pretty good because he's still Tristan Werth, but you don't know what that looks like when he does get back, um, eventually, um.
And I just imagine like if he is slowed down, it doesn't take much for Baker to become a completely unraveled quarterback.
Like this stuff has to be perfect for him.
And a bunch of their best games last year were when his A dot was under like 4 yards or even 3 yards sometimes where you're just dumping it off, you're not letting it affect the game.
We know what happens when Baker becomes a quarterback that has to sit there and read the field.
The sacks skyrocket, the interceptions skyrocket, the fumbles skyrocket.
He's just not a very careful quarterback, so.
You had to neuter him so much last year for you to get that offense.
Can you do it again with a new offensive coordinator who, Nate, we were talking about this morning.
Look at his resume.
He hasn't done much of anything in his, in his coaching career.
Look, I, I, I don't get how this could possibly be one of the best offenses in the NFL.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I, I'm like you have to recreate so much from last year that is already not on the table for week one.
I don't know.
It, it's just too many mysteries here, too many things that don't seem like.
It's gonna mesh cohesively as well as it did last year.
Uh, the offensive line should still be pretty good, but I just don't trust Baker with like any sorts of injuries up front.
That 2023 Bucks offense was 20th in points per game.
It was 27th in success rate and 17th in EPA per play.
So they did take a bit like it's not just two straight years of, of burning the league down on offense.
There's, there's, there's a couple.
There's one last year and then a solid season the year before.
Baker could be a high-wire act.
I, I've always, this has always been my comparison for Baker.
He's Russell Wilson without the athleticism.
Just as far as a football thrower, can fire some tight window throws.
A little bit of pressure scares the hell out of him and it can kind of just unravel him.
Sometimes good, he's always gonna bail to his right as well, um, sometimes good, but sometimes it can go, it can get screwy.
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