This offseason, Kyle Trask and Baker Mayfield will be competing to earn the starting quarterback role for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The competition is obviously to make sure the team ends up with the best possible option at starting quarterback, but it’s also about respecting everyone involved in the process.
During an appearance on the No Days Off podcast, Buccaneers offensive coordinator Dave Canales revealed that the quarterback competition is a way for the team to pay respect to Kyle Trask for everything he’s done for the team while also allowing Baker Mayfield to earn respect from the team.
“I think it’s partly just respecting the team, respecting what’s best for everyone, and then also respecting Kyle’s process,” Canales said according to JoeBucsFan.com. “You know, he comes in as the second-round pick with high hopes. Obviously, what a great thing, Tom Brady’s been here, so he’s been able to learn from him. But at the same time he’s worked really hard to try to have an opportunity to show what he can do.”
For Mayfield, it’s a chance to prove himself to his new team without something being handed to him.
“On the flip side, too, I think Baker, would he love to be named the starter?” Canales said. “I’m sure. But Baker also knows this is his road back, too. From Cleveland to Carolina and L.A., you know, he’s been told, ‘No,’ a couple of times. And so for him to be able to come out here to win the team over in his own right, to perform and to show them that he can be the caliber quarterback that he believes he can be, I think I owe it to both of them and to the team to put the best guy out there.”
It will be interesting to see how the whole situation works out.
