Former Buccaneers QB throws shade at Baker Mayfield: 'Not elite'

It's only been two weeks but Baker Mayfield's $100 million is already looking like a bargain for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Baker is off to the best start of his career, which is following a season in which he earned his first trip to the Pro Bowl and led the Bucs on a deep playoff run. We're witnessing a career rebirth on an epic level that some might even say is elite.

Former Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Mike Glennon is not among that group, though.

Glennon was a guest on 99.9 FM sports radio in Charlotte and took a shot at Baker Mayfield -- and Sam Darnold -- while trying to illustrate a point about Bryce Young getting benched. Young took the worst of it, but Glennon knocked them all down.

“Even with how well Sam and Baker are playing, those guys are not elite quarterbacks,” Glennon said, via JoeBucsFan. “They’re solid starters in the NFL, where [the Panthers] drafted Bryce to be elite, and he’s just not that.”

Baker Mayfield is playing like an MVP candidate, even if some won't admit it

Look, it's easy to clap back at this by highlighting just how abysmal Glennon's career in Tampa Bay was, but his time with the Bucs speaks for itself. His legacy with the team is to be the picture that everyone tosses up while making the point of just how much better Mike Evans' numbers are considering the quarterbacks he's had.

Baker, on the other hand, is writing an entirely different story for himself and the team.

Baker has more touchdowns through the first two games of this season than he's ever had over that span in his career. He's completely changed the identity of the team and helped usher them out of the Tom Brady era and into an entirely new and unique one that not many predicted would be possible.

Right now he's on pace to throw for over 4,000 yards and 40 touchdowns, and the way he's leading the Bucs suggests there's a potential MVP conversation to be had if this all continues.

Part of the narrative with Baker is that people seem stuck in the past in terms of the guy he used to be versus who he is now. This isn't the same guy who was in Cleveland or Carolina, and there's a level of maturity we haven't seen before.

Baker isn't just a "solid starter", he's firmly in elite territory and now has even more incentive to prove that.

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