REPORT: Baker Deal Nearly Done

[CPHawk]

Baker prefers hook ups behind the cheesecake factory..

Browns Quarterback Baker Mayfield Accused of Cheating on Wife

A fan of Baker Mayfield fan claimed in a new interview that the Cleveland Browns quarterback cheated on his wife, Emily, with her — details

www.usmagazine.com

At least he’s the one hooking up, rather that teammate hooking up with his wife.

Look am I a baker fan, not really. But if the choice is baker and 9-10 wins or two garbage QBs and 5-6 wins and getting the 5th pick. Missing out on the top QBs in the draft. I pick Baker.

Anyone fooling themselves into believing we will fail enough to get a 1-2 pick, haven’t been a Seahawks fan long enough. We will win just enough to get no quality QB.

 

[Cyrus12]

At least he’s the one hooking up, rather that teammate hooking up with his wife.

True!

 

[BlueTalon]

Pretty easy for a 14y old with a photoshop license to fake. Just saying.

Normally I'd want to see the URL and see if it was spoofed. (If it was possibly spoofed, the next thing I do is check the FAQ. On a fake website, there are invariably some fairly hilarious mistakes with the English used in the FAQ.)

In this case, I was curious, so I went to the official Seahawks Pro Shop website. I looked through every jersey. There are #6 Diggs jerseys, but no #6 Mayfield jerseys. So I checked the ANY NAME jerseys, and that's where things got fun.

They used to have a function where you can punch in a name and number, and it would display the jersey with that name and number. I tried that with a blue jersey, and nothing happened. No display. Interesting. Then I tried it with a white jersey. That one did have the display function, so I typed in Mayfield with the number 6. It gave me the 6, but it only gave me MAY in the name tag. I retyped the name with "FIELD" included, but in doing so I misspelled the name as MAFIELD. It let me do that, and displayed it. I punched in the missing Y, and... nothing. The software simply would not let me put the name MAYFIELD in the name spot and display it for me, but it would let me display typos and spelling errors all day long.

Sooo... I'm guessing that someone put in Mayfield's name and the number 6 in a customizable jersey, then took a screenshot of that and posted it. And then the Seahawks shop responded by disabling the features that would display such a jersey again -- no customizable white jerseys using Mayfield's name, and no customizable blue jersey displays at all.

Funny stuff!

 

[strohmin]

God please don't be true. Plllleeaseee do not be true. It would really spoil the season before it even begins. I would rather take a chance on Locke and Geno than Mayfield. At the very least, they would have much more respect from the locker room than Baker.

 

[BlueTalon]

Apparently the NFL is making such photo spoofs more difficult. Just for the hell of it, I went to the Browns' website and tried to make a Wilson #3 jersey. It wouldn't let me do it. The only customizable jerseys showing displays are the women's jerseys, and it wouldn't let me do WILSON. This was as close as I got.

 

[FrodosFinger]

“Fewer” - Stannis Baratheon

I'm pretty sure Wilson led the free world in 3 and outs. That Packer game was hard to watch. As for my grammar and sentence structure....who cares as long as there's logic

 

[Palmegranite]

The minus Ciara means he might be as good then. Wilson winning percentage went way down once he hooked up with her.

“Women weaken legs!”

(Rocky Balboa's geriatric boxing manager Mickey)

 

[pittpnthrs]

This is so gross if this is true...I was looking forward to seeing Lock & Geno fail miserably, so we can get a really good high pick in the next draft.

Now we become a team fighting for .500 every year.

He is pretty much the poorman version of injured Wilson minus Ciara.

This

Mayfield is just good enough to keep Seattle average. Hooray.

 

[SoulfishHawk]

So, you would rather they suck with Geno or Lock? That's more important than actually winning?

 

[MesquiteHawk]

I agree with Aros, but the price for him is everything. If the Brown are prepared to eat most of this years's salary and they don't want anything more than a day 3 pick then for sure the team should move on this.

The reality that Cleveland is prepared to eat half of this season's salary for him to be gone is interesting but the management of the Browns is seriously flawed with some some of the decisions that have made recently. The Browns have three choices, keep Mayfield and eat his salary of the year and face continuing and loud distraction all season, possibly getting a comp pick in '24 for him, or release him and still eating his $18.585 guaranteed salary for the year or trade him to a team that is willing to give them something back for him. With the last option any team trading for him has the reality that Mayfield is a FA next year so you aren't getting much for very long if you trade an early pick and that reality increases the need for Cleveland to make a trade worthwhile financially. Here they have little leverage as Nanomoz has observed. He'll get traded to end the distraction.

I think Mayfield could be significantly better than Smith or Lock and will bring a PO'd focus to playing well this season as he will be playing to find another starting gig elsewhere.

Still think that Tweet indicating the Hawks are close to finalizing a deal for Mayfield is BS .

If they eat his salary, does it mean that they pay it and it applies to their cap, or do they pay and it applies to our cap? I don’t care which billionaire pays him. I care who it counts against.

 

[Maelstrom787]

So, you would rather they suck with Geno or Lock? That's more important than actually winning?

It sounds like you're just talking at people, at this point. Putting up a textbook strawmen to mischaracterize what most people here are saying and then whaling on it.

There are valid concerns with acquiring Baker Mayfield. If Baker Mayfield were as good as you seem to think, he wouldn't be in his current situation. If Baker Mayfield were as good as you seem to think, he would be elsewhere by now.

The plain and simple fact is that there are red flags here. Significant ones. To try to distill what everyone else is saying against acquiring Baker, from team culture concerns to third down concerns to concerns about his vision and arm strength as well as his downward trajectory, into "well you just want to lose!" just isn't accurate, and isn't fair.

 

[JayhawkMike]

Maelstrom you have normally been a "company man" If PC wants him you should want him too.

 

[oldhawkfan]

Just a thought, but would everyone’s opinion of Mayfield be different if he were a late round pick instead of a formal overall number 1? Guys picked in the first round, let alone overall number 1 have much higher expectations heaped on their shoulders. Deserved or not.

 

[Maelstrom787]

Maelstrom you have normally been a "company man" If PC wants him you should want him too.

Interesting, seeing as Pete was traditionally Wilson's biggest defender whereas I was a detractor starting midway through 2020.

There's a seldom-acknowledged middle ground between "fire that old putz" and "I would have Petes baby." Many times, I am in that middle ground.

 

[SoulfishHawk]

Fair enough. I want the team to win, he gives them a better chance to win. It's just my opinion. I'm not here to piss people off. Just making conversation.

 

[beaumaris]

So, you would rather they suck with Geno or Lock? That's more important than actually winning?

Just ignore,that’s what I try to do.

 

[SoulfishHawk]

Nothing I say matters anyway, I just think he would make the team better. Not sure why that gets some people so worked up.

 

[Sgt. Largent]

Just a thought, but would everyone’s opinion of Mayfield be different if he were a late round pick instead of a formal overall number 1? Guys picked in the first round, let alone overall number 1 have much higher expectations heaped on their shoulders. Deserved or not.

I call it "delusional myopic Hawk fan syndrome."

A large segment of fans think as soon as players are drafted, traded for or signed by the Hawks, that makes them automatically amazing.

Baker Mayfield is a legitimate starting caliber NFL QB, who IMO hasn't even reached his potential from being in the dumpster fire organization that is the Cleveland Browns with constant revolving doors of coordinators and coaches.

Drew Lock got benched for Teddy Bridgewater (let that sink in), and Geno Smith has been a career backup since he got his jaw broken by his own teammate in 2015.

So if Hawk fans don't think Mayfield is an upgrade over the worst QB room in the entire NFL, then I wouldn't waste my breath debating with them.

 

[Rosco]

It’s the slowest time of the year in sports.

This is so gross if this is true...I was looking forward to seeing Lock & Geno fail miserably, so we can get a really good high pick in the next draft.

Now we become a team fighting for .500 every year.

He is pretty much the poorman version of injured Wilson minus Ciara.

relax, Baker sucks.

I call it "delusional myopic Hawk fan syndrome."

A large segment of fans think as soon as players are drafted, traded for or signed by the Hawks, that makes them automatically amazing.

Baker Mayfield is a legitimate starting caliber NFL QB, who IMO hasn't even reached his potential from being in the dumpster fire organization that is the Cleveland Browns with constant revolving doors of coordinators and coaches.

Drew Lock got benched for Teddy Bridgewater (let that sink in), and Geno Smith has been a career backup since he got his jaw broken by his own teammate in 2015.

So if Hawk fans don't think Mayfield is an upgrade over the worst QB room in the entire NFL, then I wouldn't waste my breath debating with them.

If Baker was a legitimate starter a team would’ve made the trade for him. $19M is very cheap for a legitimate starting QB in the NFL.
Bridgewater got the job due to Fangio wanting a vet was the safe pick over development of a QB.

 

[keasley45]

The minus Ciara means he might be as good then. Wilson winning percentage went way down once he hooked up with her.

This whole Ciara narrative is just beyond me. Wilson was on borrowed time because he never improved his game, not because he hooked up with her. The questionable character issues that plagued him in the end were talked about as early as NC State. And now, knowing that the grumbling from teammates about how he wasn't held accountable and was protected by Pete was true... that kind of thing doesn't have a great shelf life. It fractured the LOB and the team. And Russ never changed. If they saw his difficiencies, then current players see them as well. There's only so much 'protecting' Pete can do and only so much 'fronting' Russ can get away with, especially now with the complete changing of the guard on defense and offensive weapons like DK who were also obviously frustrated.
Russ didn't change when Ciara came along. His act just ran its course. He may have doubled down when the 'unlimited' franchise became the brand worth fighting for for him over the Seahawks, but I seriously doubt she spoiled him. That milk had been curdling for a long time already.