Baker Mayfield swears he was honoring Giants quarterback Tommy DeVito when he busted out the quarterback’s signature hand gesture after scoring a dashing landing simply earlier than halftime within the Buccaneers’ rout of the Giants.
“It was a tribute. A tribute to Tommy,” Mayfield advised reporters, in keeping with ESPN.
“Most of the time, I don’t know what I’m going to do so … spontaneous stuff,” Mayfield later mentioned. “New York fans love Tommy here, so give ’em something they like.”
After expressing his admiration for the younger Giants QB, Mayfield was requested if he occurred to be of Italian descent.
Considerably deadpanned, the Buccaneers quarterback was fast to reply.
“I haven’t done a 23andMe, but I don’t know,” he mentioned.
Mayfield rushed the ball up the center on the Giants’ 10-yard line with 20 seconds left within the first half and hurdled Giants cornerback Cor’Dale Flott.
When he bounced again up, he started doing the hand gesture as he celebrated ultimately zone.
Mayfield completed the sport with one dashing landing whereas throwing 294 yards on 24 accomplished passes.
The Bucs handed the Giants one other ugly loss as their season continues to circle the drain.
DeVito accomplished 21 of 31 move makes an attempt for 189 yards, and he was sacked 4 occasions.
The younger QB had a tough first half, going 3-for-5 for 31 yards.
“It was robust within the first half,’’ DeVito mentioned. “Simply determining what they had been doing, simply understand it sounds cliché, however simply coming all the way down to execution. We began to get going, but it surely was too late.’’
Each groups had been coming off a bye week, and the Bucs had dropped 4 straight previous to that.
The loss was the Giants’ ninth of the season, they usually have dropped six consecutive video games.
