{"id":18352,"date":"2025-01-13T16:11:54","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T16:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=18352"},"modified":"2025-01-13T16:11:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T16:11:54","slug":"video-baker-mayfield-had-the-most-heartbreaking-reaction-after-buccaneers-crushing-wild-card-loss-to-commanders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/?p=18352","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Baker Mayfield Had The Most Heartbreaking Reaction After Buccaneers\u2019 Crushing Wild Card Loss To Commanders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cameras caught\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/tag\/baker-mayfield\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Baker Mayfield<\/a>\u2019s reaction in the tunnel after the\u00a0<a class=\"mai-link-injected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.totalprosports.com\/nfl\/tampa-bay-buccaneers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tampa Bay Buccaneers<\/a>\u00a0ended at the hands of the Washington Commanders, and it\u2019s certainly hard not to feel for the 29-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>Baker Mayfield\u2019s career year ended in gut-wrenching fashion, with Commanders kicker Zane Gonzalez booting the game-winning 37-yard field goal off the right goal post and in send his team to Detroit:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A DOINK TO THE DIVISIONAL ROUND!!!! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Commanders?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@COMMANDERS<\/a> WIN! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TRwyX11zcZ\">pic.twitter.com\/TRwyX11zcZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NFL (@NFL) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NFL\/status\/1878654631015747697?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 13, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>While the Commanders are celebrating their first playoff win since 2005 (fittingly, a Wild Card Round road win in Tampa Bay), Mayfield and the Bucs head into the offseason wondering what could have been.<\/p>\n<p>After the game, Rick Stroud of the\u00a0<em>Tampa Bay Times<\/em>\u00a0shared a video of a crushed Baker Mayfield making his way to the locker room:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A dejected Baker Mayfield leaves the field for the final time in 2024. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vTzxwEtafv\">pic.twitter.com\/vTzxwEtafv<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rick Stroud (@NFLSTROUD) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NFLSTROUD\/status\/1878655648872669197?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 13, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Mayfield made a costly mistake in the fourth quarter, botching a handoff that led to a Commanders\u2019 fumble recover at the Tampa 13-yard line. Jayden Daniels found Terry McLaurin for the go-ahead touchdown four plays later, and the Commanders never trailed again.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-baker-mayfield-proves-2023-wasn-t-a-fluke\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Baker Mayfield Proves 2023 Wasn\u2019t A Fluke<\/h2>\n<p>Mayfield signed a three-year contract extension in the offseason worth $100 million after leading Tampa to a third straight NFC South crown in 2023. Proving it was no fluke, the 2018 first overall pick had a career year with a 71.4 completion percentage for 4,500 yards, 41 touchdowns and 16 picks.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Cameras caught\u00a0Baker Mayfield\u2019s reaction in the tunnel after the\u00a0Tampa Bay Buccaneers\u00a0ended at the hands of the Washington Commanders, and it\u2019s certainly hard not to feel for the 29-year-old. &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18352"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18352\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18354,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18352\/revisions\/18354"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usdailys.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}