The Tampa Bay Buccaneers look like a shell of the franchise they should be. Two time Super Bowl champions in this millennium, the Buccaneers actually began the 2025 NFL season as Super Bowl contenders and boasted one of the league's leading MVP candidates, with Baker Mayfield rising amongst a weak field with scintillating individual performances as the center piece of one of the league's most exciting offenses.
It did not take long for it all to unravel. The Buccaneers were outclassed by all the more valid Super Bowl contenders in both the AFC and NFC, and in a few short weeks, the New England Patriots, Buffalo Bills, and Los Angeles Rams all made mince meat out of the Bucs, with Mayfield getting outclassed in head to head competition by three other MVP candidates.