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00:02 - Focus here on Tampa Bay.
00:04 Baker Mayfield announced as the starter.
00:07 Let's take a look at this clip with Baker saying,
00:08 "Yeah, you know what, I'm the starter.
00:10 Let's get after it."
00:11 - Yeah, I mean, this is a game I always dreamed of playing.
00:14 Wanted to play it since I was little.
00:16 And yeah, just being able to be on a platform now
00:19 with the great franchise to earn the job,
00:21 it's an unbelievable feeling.
00:23 You never want to take those for granted.
00:25 You know, I'm one of 32 guys that consider
00:26 a starting quarterback in the NFL.
00:28 So it's a special honor.
00:31 Living out a dream, but now's not the time to be satisfied.
00:33 So yeah, I think all of our guys are ready
00:36 to push through this regular season and see where we go.
00:40 - Interesting fit here, Mark,
00:41 with Baker Mayfield going to Tampa Bay.
00:43 And let's take a look in totality.
00:45 First, we'll start with Tampa Bay, right?
00:46 Moving on from Tom Brady, trying to make that next,
00:49 who's, or I was gonna say,
00:50 who's gonna be that next quarterback.
00:52 And the decision being made was Kyle Trask.
00:54 We heard a lot in the off season.
00:55 We like the guy, we think he could be our starter.
00:57 They bring in Baker Mayfield.
00:59 Then all of a sudden we see the quarterback competition,
01:01 or is it, or was it, I should say,
01:03 a quarterback competition overall?
01:05 Give me some thoughts right now on Baker Mayfield,
01:07 first with his move to Tampa Bay,
01:08 and maybe how this played out in your mind with Kyle Trask.
01:11 - Well, I mean, Baker Mayfield has a distinction.
01:16 I think he's the first quarterback to start
01:18 for four different teams in a two year span.
01:21 And that's not something you celebrate.
01:23 That's not actually a good thing.
01:24 That's a bad thing.
01:25 That means you've been on bad teams
01:27 and you haven't been good enough
01:29 to keep a starting job anywhere.
01:30 So I wouldn't put that feather in my cap there
01:33 from Baker Mayfield, but this is where he is right now.
01:36 I mean, he's, he just said in the clip, he's one of 32,
01:40 probably shouldn't be one of 32.
01:41 I mean, there's a argument that the bottom six
01:44 or seven quarterbacks in the NFL
01:45 probably aren't actual starters in the NFL.
01:48 And I'm not sure that Baker Mayfield
01:49 can play at a starting level anymore.
01:52 As I said a moment ago, when we did our,
01:55 you know, initial kickoff here about Kyle Trask,
01:57 what does it say about him
01:58 that he couldn't win the starting job?
02:00 You know, I think they invested a second round draft pick
02:01 in Kyle Trask and he couldn't win the starting job.
02:03 I mean, you have a third round draft pick
02:05 in Desmond Ritter in Atlanta.
02:07 You have other, you know, mid round picks
02:09 who have been able to start in this league
02:11 and Kyle Trask can't win that job.
02:13 It's a little interesting to say that, you know,
02:15 you might've whiffed on the kid right now,
02:16 but maybe some of this is about Baker Mayfield
02:19 getting the start because he has experience
02:22 and the leash is gonna be fairly short for him.
02:25 If he can't, you know, make this offense better.
02:27 And granted again, you know,
02:29 they have some weapons in the receiving game here, Donnie,
02:32 but I don't know how much of a running attack
02:35 they're gonna have and how good their offensive line is.
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