The result of the "bidding war" was Mayfield taking a big pay cut and the Browns getting a single draft pick in the fourth or fifth round of 2024, roughly equivalent to a fifth-round or sixth-round pick in next year's draft. Plus the Browns have to pay Mayfield $10.5M to play for some other team. For a player who had $18.9M guaranteed this year, that looks like a resounding "not interested" from the league as a whole, including the Seahawks.
I actually have to wonder if the Panthers already have the same kind of buyer's remorse people have after waking up to the results of a night of drunk e-commerce purchases. I'm imagining something like...
Panthers GM, to intern:"Yeah, tell the Browns we'll get that piece of crap out of their hair if they can find a way for us to pay no more than $4.858M and we don't give up anything more valuable than a day-three draft pick. That oughta shut 'em up!"
Intern: "Sir, they've accepted our terms."
GM: "Oh, $#!+! They're even more desperate than I thought!"
If I actually believed
@Welshers weren't parodying Mayfield fans (or something - I have to admit at least some, and possibly all, of the humor is whooshing harmlessly over my head), I'd say he oughta be pretty pi$$ed off at his sources and I'd probably make a suggestion to the effect of those sources being voices in his head. But since I
do think he's doing some kind of parody thing, even if I don't really "get" the humor, I can't really say much.
