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Baker Mayfield Said He Was In The Dark With Renewed Contract Talks September 10th, 2026It seemed easy to connect the dots as Adam Schefter seemed to do. During training camp, Bucs co-chairman Joel Glazer showed up at practice. He stood on the sidelines and talked mostly with Bucs AC/DC-loving general manager Jason Licht. At one point, Joe noticed that holdout back-injured Vita Vea was standing right in front of Glazer. A few hours later, Vea and the Bucs agreed on a new deal. Joe doesn’t believe in coincidences in football. The Boss showed up and a deal for Vea was struck. Hhhmmm? So when Schefter, the BSPN uber NFL insider, spoke on his podcast this week, he said Bucs quarterback Baker Mayfield broke bread with Team Glazer at a function. A few days later, voila! Mayfield had an extension. Joe was ready yesterday to ask Mayfield at One Buc Palace if his dinner with Team Glazer in any way sparked contract negotiations to resume. But before Joe got a chance to ask that, Mayfield told the local pen and mic club he had no idea the Bucs and his representatives has resumed talks. Remember, Mayfield vocally had stated his deadline to get an extension was the start of training camp. If the deadline was missed, he wouldn’t negotiate until after the season. “I told my agent, ‘Listen, I’m done talking about it,'” Mayfield said of his deadline. “Unless something really changes, you can bring that to my attention. “If you think I actually am willing to agree to it, then bring it to my attention.’ Apparently, they engaged in talks last week that I did not know about until Monday [at] about 6 p.m. “It caught [Mayfield and his wife] off guard when we were at dinner, just sitting down to eat, and the agent said, ‘Hey, I think I need to give you a call. I need to update you on something.'” And the next thing you know, Mayfield became one of the highest-paid quarterbacks in the NFL. Even when Mayfield spoke often about his self-imposed deadline, Joe didn’t believe it was that firm. If Mayfield’s agent got an offer from the Bucs that Mayfield couldn’t refuse, Joe couldn’t picture Mayfield digging his heels in and hollering at Licht, “I TOLD YOU NOT TO TALK TO ME UNTIL FEBRUARY! BUZZ OFF CORNHUSKER!” Yeah, if someone was going to throw $155 million a year in Joe’s face, any sort of deadline gets tossed out the window at that moment.