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Jason Smith: "What Baker Mayfield has been able to do this season... You're looking at someone who now is one win away from the NFC Championship... He is gonna get [a huge] contract in the offseason. He's been pretty solid all year, but he's hit a next level here in the playoffs... [His career] was in the toilet -- he was taken number one overall by the Browns and didn't even see the end of his contract, then he goes to Carolina and can't even hold onto the number one job. He was circling the drain. He was supposed to be a bridge quarterback this year until Tampa could get a new one in the draft... well look at where he is now."
Jason and Mike, fresh off watching the Buccaneers topple the Eagles to advance in the playoffs, take a few minutes of the show to give Tampa Bay quarterback Baker Mayfield his flowers for exceeding all expectations this season. Jason believes that the former number one overall draft pick, after spending the past few seasons as a journeyman, has finally found himself a home in Tampa and expects him to get a sizeable multi-year contract in the offseason.