Baker Mayfield was riding high after beating the Jets last weekend.

Though now a Pro Bowler with the Buccaneers, the No. 1 overall pick had an bumpy journey to Tampa Bay. After Cleveland, Mayfield had stops in Carolina and Los Angeles before landing with the Buccaneers.

“Their D-coordinator (Steve Wilks) was the one who cut me in Carolina. So, a lot of stuff was personal today,” Mayfield said after a 29-27 win over New York.

There’s only one problem with that, which Wilks pointed out in a Jets press conference on Friday morning.

“I don’t think an interim coach has much say over personnel,” Wilks said (via ESPN’s Rich Cimini). “If that were the case, I wouldn’t have gotten rid of our best player, Christian McCaffrey.”

Wilks was Carolina’s interim coach after the firing of Matt Rhule

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