As he sat at the table for his postgame press conference, Baker Mayfield talked about what the Buccaneers had lacked in their loss to the Patriots.

“You have to have some pride about you. You got to have the fear of failure and messing up for your teammates. You got to have better responsibility for the guys around you,” he said. “In tight ball games like this, when you play a good team like the Patriots , little things will get you beat.”

Mayfield is an MVP candidate and the Buccaneers have been to the playoffs in five straight seasons and have won four consecutive NFC South Division titles. They’re among the NFL’s best-run franchises right now and arrived for the game in first place.

But on Sunday at home, they didn’t take care of their details well enough to beat “a good team like

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