last year, for one very important reason, and it's his
own fault. He suffered an injury week to after, he threw
an interception at the side. He was going to go make
the tackle.
I say this all the time, do not put yourself in that position.
The team needs you more next week and the week after
the week after that, then they need you to go. Try to make that
tackle. After a turnover. Keep yourself healthy, no,
unnecessary contact.
And no, you know, basic
Newtonian physics where you've got one
object. Moving very rapidly, this way the other object moves
rapidly the other way, you've got heightened forces when you
Collide, you don't want to do that as a quarterback.
So if he doesn't have that injury last year, who knows
what we see from from Baker? Mayfield. It's just
unfortunate. And I just for his sake.
I would like this to get resolved so he can begin
the process of getting himself ready to be someone's
quarterback. It's just unfortunate that we're in this
posture.
But I agree with my borrow said, I think I think may feel.
I don't know who you're very gonna be. Anybody's
quarterback,
the quest. I think the question is whose backup quarterback. Is
he going to be?
I mean, at least at the start of the year,
you know, if he was going to be somebody's quarterback.
He would have been signed by May 20th.
It's all I can say. And I'm not saying that's the right
decision by Carolina or Seattle, or whoever it is. But
that's just the way it is.
And look, Mike.
I would maintain this.
If I were Baker Mayfield, I'd want to obviously, I want to be
a free agent. But if I was a free agent, I wouldn't be
signing right now.
I wouldn't, I would not I would not sign with anyone. I'd say
I'd wait until
either. Somebody got hurt or Labor Day weekend. And if
somebody then wanted me at minimum salary or whatever, as
a number, three quarterback for the time being I'd go but
there's
no sense right now in going to a place that doesn't want him.
And right now I think the only place that might want him is
Carolina, but the fact is they have shown such, you know, Pat
passivity.
Baker Mayfield that?
How could he look at that? And say boy I'd have a great chance
to play. If I went to Carolina.
I just I don't see it.
This issue came up this week. I was on with Rich Eisen in both
with Dan Patrick shows that follow us here on peacock.
They both believed and I agree that the Browns need to really
explore the possibility of getting Mayfield, back in
the fall. It's not going to be easy and Dan thinks they should do
it.
Rich believes that Humpty Dumpty cannot be put back
together. That relationship is fractured Beyond repair and
I tend to agree more with that, but I think the brown should be
trying.
To get Baker, Mayfield back in the fold because they may need
him. We don't know how long to show them Watson's going to
miss. If at all this year.
That's a different topic
and maybe it'll come to a head next week. I'm still penciling
it in. As next Friday Memorial Day Weekend, bad news, dump
the NFL proposes, a suspension of DeShaun Watson and
the disciplinary process moves forward. They may
need him for all or most of the 2022 season. You're already
paying him 18 point, eight million.
And I, if I'm Baker, Mayfield, Peter, I know we got to go to
break. But if I'm Baker, Mayfield and I look at Seattle,
Caroline, or Cleveland
as my options,
And I want to set myself up
to become a free agent and get a big contract next year.
Cleveland is the no-brainer, isn't it?
Probably but suppose and you raise this in a in a
piece that you did it pro football talk which I think is
absolutely totally on the table.
And that is that there's a possibility. I definitely don't
think it's 50/50 or better
but there is a possibility
that the NFL will allow the legal system to run its course
before it does anything in it?
Disciplinary way
with DeShaun Watson,
and could you imagine the quarterback room
with DeShaun Watson,
Baker Mayfield in Jacoby, Brissette.
First of all, Jacoby Brissette will feel like he got stabbed
in the back. He went there to be a backup quarterback and to
play if there was going to be a suspension
of DeShaun Watson.
And if that happened,
you know, they literally might have to release
Jacoby Brissette,
I mean, it's just all
it's so it's so problematic right now, that to me, if
I were the Browns,
I don't think I could do anything until I. If you were
thinking about bringing him back. I don't think you could
do anything. Unless you knew what the NFL was going to do in
a disciplinary way.
All the more reason for the NFL to make a decision. They've had
plenty of time. They've had full access to the individuals
who will talk. To them.
DeShaun Watson has no option. He has to talk to them. The
time is now, the clock has been ticking and the Browns need to
know and this ties back to
what we spent the first hour of the program talking about
the NCAA, getting the chaos. It deserves. You could argue,
the Browns are getting the chaos. They deserve by doing the deal
with DeShaun Watson. Doing the tray, the 230 million fully
guaranteed while you still have Baker Mayfield
and you don't know what's going on. Well, you only have
yourself to blame for not Not knowing what's going on. As all
of this Begins, the Collide and you have to contemplate life.
With DeShaun Watson, maybe without him
life with Baker, Mayfield, maybe without him. It's a big mess
and the Browns only have themselves to blame.