After pulling off a heart-stopping 20-19 victory over the Houston Texans on Monday night, Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Baker Mayfield stood before ESPN’s Laura Rutledge , with a mix of grit and clarity. He, along with Rachaad White, had just engineered an 11-play, 80-yard masterpiece in the final minutes, a drive that encapsulated both the brilliance and the bluster of this Bucs team. When Rutledge asked about the game’s defining play, a fourth-and-10 scramble where he willed his way for a first down, Mayfield deflected praise onto the Texans’ scheme and his teammates.

“They just did a good job dropping out into coverage there in the two-minute stuff,” he explained. “They’re able to do a lot of stuff with pressure, and they didn’t do that. They dropped out underneath s

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