Baker Mayfield made plays tonight but he’ll be thinking for the next 7 1/2 months about his botched fourth-quarter handoff to Jalen McMillan at the Bucs’ 15 yard line.

Fair or not, that lost fumble was the difference in the Bucs’ three-point loss.

What a stain that puts on Mayfield’s extraordinary 2024 season.

Joe actually thought the Bucs shouldn’t have gotten so cute in their own territory and just kept pounding the rock to Bucky Irving with a 17-13 lead on first down. But yeah, Joe’s nitpicking. The Bucs have run that jet-sweep play before and there was nothing wrong with the call.

So how will Mayfield handle this kind of adversity? How will it drive him?

Long offseason ahead for the Bucs’ franchise quarterback.