Baker Mayfield wins without completing a pass in the rain
The Final's rain-soaked Buccaneers recap turns a nearly empty passing line into an unusually widely watched Short.
Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 467,251 views a day, 14 times a normal first day on this channel (32,434).
He Had 0 Yards AND WON 😭☔️
Baker Mayfield's instructions were simple: hand the ball off and do what he was told. In the postgame excerpt included by The Final, the Tampa Bay quarterback offers that explanation for a victory achieved without a single completed pass.
The sports clips channel packages game footage and commentary around a peculiar contrast. Mayfield attempts just three passes, finishes with zero passing yards and still gets the win against Atlanta. Across the field, Michael Penix Jr. throws four interceptions as heavy rain makes an already difficult afternoon worse.
Rather than a montage of spectacular throws, this is a quarterback highlight built around repeatedly giving someone else the ball. The passing-stat graphic is almost entirely zeros.
The Short drew an estimated 470,000 views in its first day, far beyond The Final's usual opening audience. Its comment section was also several times busier than normal. Viewers compare Penix's interceptions with Mayfield's pass attempts, discuss the consequences for their fantasy teams and point to the rain as the context a box score cannot supply.
The Final's overall daily views have climbed to nearly a million, with a separate Jared Verse Short also drawing an unusually large early audience. But Mayfield's clip has the simplest hook: Tampa Bay needed its quarterback to keep handing off, not to fill the passing column.
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What viewers say
Crazy that Penix had more INTs than Mayfield had passes in that game
@spyder0724See it on YouTubeThe rainstorm makes this make so much more sense. I only saw the box score
@joncross8483See it on YouTubeMy fantasy opponent for this week had Baker starting QB 😂
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Rip to Baker Mayfield fantasy people
@PatrickLegal-s4xSee it on YouTubeTrue football. Wish more games were like this.
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- Channel
- The Final
- Subscribers
- 283,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 1,536,173
- Channel views, pace per day
- 952,872 (on a normal day: 114,978)
- Video published
- November 1, 2026
- Video views so far
- 597,888 (2 days online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 557,435
The numbers
Mayfield's recap drew far more first-day views than a usual Short from The Final, alongside a broader jump in the channel's daily viewing.
💡 Test your knowledge
Which college team did Michael Penix Jr. play for immediately before entering the NFL?
Penix finished his college career at Washington before entering the NFL.


