Baker Mayfield 'was awesome' in Buccaneers' Week 1 victory | Chris Simms Unbuttoned | NFL on NBC

while we wait for the Lions to come back and win this thing we go give me the headlines presented by Hyundai this is where we are in the printing press we got papers coming out tomorrow morning it is now 11:12 at night here on the East Coast we got two games to talk about here Buccaneers they handled the Washington commanders your headline for this game is Bakers Bay yes not Tampa Bay Bakers Bay and oddly enough like I'm going to tell you a little bit his his charity is called Baker's Bay I've seen it in the end Zone on like their like the wall he's taking over he's taking over H you know and I love that and I always when the Buccaneers M yo ho yo ho the pirates life for me uh but that was a an impressive win for the bucks today first off Baker Mayfield was awesome especially early on in the football game five consecutive scoring drives to open the game I mean and and let me just say like five consecutive scoring drives and just one good aggressive throw after a another I mean Baker really threw the ball awesome today and then I think what's impressive off of that is they had a little running game to go along with it you know there they if they can get that going with a guy like like Baker Mayfield okay because Baker Mayfield if you can get people to creep up to the line of scrimmage and start worrying about you know the the the Run game he is a guy that's going to go oh you're creeping up too close I'm going to throw it deep to Mike Evans I'm not going to let you off the hook here and I think their offenses is built like that too but really did a great job of yes running the ball Mike Evans with a few big plays uh Chris Godwin they got rasheid white into the passing game as well that was really good and you know all in all I don't think that that that Washington defense is all that talented right but this is a good start it's Dan Quinn and he's trying to impress and come out and show everybody but we saw another rookie quarterback on the other side too it just it was the theme of the day rookie quarterbacks who look good in the preseason the regular seasons not the same not with the type of players that are on the field and of course the schemes are so much more drastic I bet you these guys including Jaden Daniels today drop back a few times and I'm like what the hell is this coverage I don't know what's going on I never saw this in the preseason but I will say Jaden Daniels look good today didn't throw interception out of all the rookies he looked the best I think 70% completion percentage ran for 88 yards now some of this at the end of the game when it was a blowout two rushing touchdowns though but still was in control of himself never looked too big let me just say to when he runs he looks really fast like really fast the first few times he took off I was like wow that was easy and he might be challenging people like Lamar and Justin fields for the fastest quarterback in football like right away Kyler Murray in that conversation too but yeah I mean as we know this Washington team we don't expect them to be World beaters this year this is a we're building for something for the future we're building Jaden Daniels to get him going but the Buccaneers reminded us that they're a playoff football team from last year and they got talent on both sides of the of the ball uh and yeah damn I thought they looked really good today penguin sunburn says Dam okay bucks offensive line I know it was only against the commanders but that has been a solid unit for the past couple Seasons be hard for me not to imagine them being a wild card team if not more so maybe I'm they they they scared me today I didn't pick them to be in the wild card or anything and they scared me and that and then and um our buddy there talking about that game um at penguin sunburn y he's right and I think that o line has a chance to maybe be as good as it's ever been in the last few years I really do across the board I think this might be the year where they really might we might be able to have like a legit Run game right you know I know they can pass you're going we on well I got drafted by them they gave me millions of dollars I'm allowed to say no I know but I don't think you've always gone we though I don't even know why I said that that just like totally just came into my mind I usually always say we with the Giants yeah uh but they don't have a good enough offensive line but I guess when you almost die on the field and like lose your spleen you're allowed to join the Wii Party part of them they're part of you you're forever yeah you know I just thought it was I was like oh he's back he's back on board they're we again one more uh game to talk about here in the newspaper in the printing press Vikings beat oh here we go to your Giants the Giants Giants oh what is what is that that's the Ghostbusters song Ghostbusters a movie I did see when I was when you were 5 years old all those movies grown up yeah yeah that that's the headline for this one Ghostbuster why do I say this come on Sam darnold he was seeing ghosts in that Monday night football game against the Patriots a few years ago remember when he was playing for the Jets and they had him miked up and everybody talked about it in New York oh my gosh he sees ghosts is he overwhelmed oh no he wasn't overwhelmed he was just on a shitty team so everybody would have been overwhelmed and I I was so happy for him today to come out like that just firing the ball around a field where he probably has no good memories at and kind of puts that to bed and also I think puts questions to bed I think right away to go hey the Vikings offense is going to be something to worry about here you know we know Kevin oconnell his ability to throw the football and what he does there uh is very special and the Aaron Jones Edition at running back was real man Aaron Jones looked really really good so all of those like totally positive what did darnold start out 11 for 12 oh 12 for 12 I think 12 for 12 130 or 40 yards right off the bat and really put the Giants in a spot where you know pretty on early on early third quarter late second quarter you're like ah the gmen are they got no chance today get this for the Vikings this was their largest margin of victory since since 2019 flip of the coin here for the Giants this was bad again because they started last season if you remember yeah they lost 40 to nothing to the Dallas Cowboys that's not a great way to start your season last year this was not much better no how worried are you about your New York Giants very I mean offense still doesn't look great right I I know Daniel Jones is going to get a lot of crap and he should you know he missed some throws but still was under pressure a lot today they can't run the ball worth a dam right and then the other thing that I think is a little worrisome about them and we knew this going into the year is their secondary their secondary is not good they tried to trade throughout preseason to get another corner to go along with Aaron Banks and you saw today that they they're going to have issues matching up with offenses that have more than one goto guy you know what I mean and this would be one of those teams that has more than onew guy with the way they play offense and okell spreads things around and everything there so yeah not a good start not a good start at all for the New York Giants uh pains me to say it Dexter Lawrence looked like he was awesome today uh other than that I don't know if there was a whole lot more other positives there Malik neighbors does look the part that's the other part mik neighbors looks real okay I'll say that but I just don't know if they're going to be good enough to really feature him and and show all the good things he can do oh man it was third and five uh it's been some this is is a weird Drive they're driving down the field they're in field goal territory right now it's fourth of five they're going to kick it and tie this game up with 20 seconds it looks like we're going to go into overtime so here well here's the problem you do have Jak you do have Jake baks I don't I don't condone a go for you you don't to go for here wait maybe you're kicker doesn't make it in this range all that well well I am worried about the maybe like in this little range of four to five yards he doesn't kick it good so I am worried about the kicker this is Jake Bates he came over USL or what is it called now the UFL I don't know but he knocks just he he kicked one in from here already I know but I'm a little worried right down the middle all right so it looks like we are going to overtime in this game it looked like you guys were going to have a touchdown on that drive was that jir Gibbs running over the middle and he tripped and fell on the little post route yeah that was him right that looked like it was about to be a walk-in touchdown and he I don't know the turf monster might have got him well we have just guaranteed that I will be distracted for the entirety of the podcast now but what I can say with certainty is that was give me the headlines presented by Hyundai yo yo homies thanks for watching yeah it's time the NFL season is here on Chris Sims unbutton you can hit subscribe to get all the weekly picks plus our Sunday Recaps as the games are happening oh you know it nobody does that better than us thanks again for watching Remember to subscribe peace out we'll see you next time on on button