Bill Simmons dropped another incredible Baker Mayfield take after Week 6

Another week means yet another batch of Baker Mayfield hype for us to all sort through. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers continue to soar to incredible heights, and it's on the wings of perhaps the best season in Mayfield's career that they're being carried.

It hasn't totally felt like flying at times this season, as Sunday was the first time this year the Bucs were able to end a game in victory formation rather than things coming down to a final drive. Not only was it the "easiest" win of the year, but Tampa Bay's 30-19 victory over San Francisco propelled them to the No. 1 seed in the NFC.

Mayfield's performance in that game has everyone buzzing even harder about his chances to win MVP this year.

Bill Simmons dropped an incredible Baker Mayfield take comparing him to Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt

One of the most prominent personalities helping drive the Baker Mayfield MVP narrative is The Ringer's Bill Simmons. He's not quite the conductor, but he's been lifting people onto the hype train as it leaves the station.

Simmons compared Baker's resurgence to a sports movie cliché and in doing so aptly compared him to both Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise.

"I don't get it. I mean, it's like in a sports movie this would happen," Simmons said. "In Baker's case, he's very good on the Browns, he took them to round two. He had a really great college career, does the dip where it's like the Days of Thunder Tom Cruise where you're in the hospital bed going I don't know if I can race again. It's like one of those ... he gives some speech on the balcony like Brad Pitt in F1, and now he's back. He got his mojo back, and I don't know how it happened."

To channel our inner Bill, there's the obvious sports movie piece to this but there's also the Pitt and Cruise piece which fits just as well. The comparison works beyond the fact they were both in the movies Simmons was referencing, as you can trace all three careers of Cruise, Pitt and Baker on a similar path.

All three of them had early periods when they were renowned household names, known to everyone. Each then fell into a lost period where they were still doing stuff, but the consensus was they had lost a little off their fastball. In Baker's case, he bounced from the Browns to the Panthers and the Rams before landing in Tampa Bay, which could be considered the renaissance period that Cruise and Pitt are in now.

It's not just that they're all doing good stuff again, but rather we're being reminded that they were always this good, even if circumstances weren't right. We've seen this happen to actors before -- who can forget the McConaugsainse -- and it's happening with Baker. Cruise and Pitt are choosing the right roles in the right movies to shift the narrative back in their favor and Baker is doing the same thing ever since signing with Tampa Bay.

The Bucs are his Once Upon A Time...in Hollywood or Mission: Impossible, and it's been cinematic to watch his return to glory.