Baker, Mayfield? Or is
the case? Maybe not talking about Baker, Mayfield. Nothing to be
gained by airing out, dirty. Laundry. Everybody seems to be
taking
the high road. You don't want Baker, Mayfield, responding,
and they know how prickly he can be. And I said, prickly,
I put the ly on there. It is an appropriate word to use in this
and other settings.
They don't want that fight. They finally reached kind of
an awkward truce with him
and I think He understands. It's in his best interest to
just kind of go along and understand
that he wants a team that wants him.
I had heard weeks ago, that there was a belief he needed to
be humbled as part of his trade. He has been Colts,
weren't interested, Seahawks
as far as I can tell
aren't interested. He may have to settle for the Panthers
and that's okay because he needs to ultimately have that
resolved from within to go be the best player. He can be and
set himself up for whatever he's going to have by way of
an NFL career because he's only 27 years old,
so Smart by the Browns to not agitate. And there's a mutual
interest here in Baker, Mayfield Landing with a team
that gets the Browns, Fair return, and that gives Baker,
Mayfield a fair chance to turn his career around. Yeah, I'd
agree with that. I mean I think
you know when Kevin stefanski uses the words fluid and
unique. I think those are pretty correct terms and we
don't know exactly when a trade is going to go down for Baker,
Mayfield in part because we don't really know what's going
to happen.
Draft, so that's kind of where they are. They're just kind of
at an impasse and, you know, I think Baker Mayfield could have
made it a little more uncomfortable for the Browns if
he did show up to work this week for the voluntary
offseason program, but he didn't,
and that's fine. He can train wherever it is that he wants to
train and maybe eventually he does get sent to the Carolina
Panthers where Robbie Anderson doesn't want him at all. So
I don't know. Mike what's your sense? I mean, what do you
think this will be resolved around? The drafter will Baker,
Mayfield have
To wait a little longer,
unless the Carolina Panthers or some other team have
completely, and totally decided under no circumstances. Would
they take one of the best quarterbacks available
then and then you mobilize to get Baker. Mayfield, you know,
if the Panthers have decided,
we don't want, Kenny, picket, or Malik, Willis, or Matt
Carroll, or any of these guys. And we're not even going to try
to trade down and play it that way, or whatever. The case may
be, because I could see a situation with a Panthers would
drop back into the teens.
And try to get a guy there and then if they don't, that's when
the Mayfield option becomes relevant unless they're ready
to say right now. We're out on all the quarterbacks. I think
it plays out through the draft through round 1 through round
two
and somebody who wanted a quarterback and didn't get
a quarterback, makes the move on Baker, Mayfield, the only risk
you're taking there is if there are two teams that are looking
at quarterback and they don't get the guy they want in round
1 or round two,
then you may not get Baker, Mayfield. You know, the Falcons
could come into play
for making me feel potentially, if they don't get a quarterback
in the draft because they've got Marcus Mariota and nothing
really else
to work with. So, hey,
let's some respect on Philippe Frank's name. All right. Okay.
Like I said, they don't have much to work with other than
Marcus maren. I'm impressed, you know, the name of the other
quarterback on the Falcons roster and that's it right now.
That's it,
two quarterbacks.
They're going to at least have for when it's time to do their
Season workouts, the full-blown on field practice. So so
long story, bearable.
I think it's going to happen during or after the draft.
Okay. I mean, I think that, that makes sense. But yeah,
I can see the Panthers moving down in part because their GM's
got fitter. Comes from the John Schneider School in Seattle of
GM, aiming, right? And that's something that Seattle
seems to always be doing are always moving down there,
always Gathering more assets and because the Panthers don't
have many more pics in those. Higher rounds.
They to me are really Prime candidate to trade down. Now.
I don't know who's going to trade up, but they're usually is some
team that disguises their interest pretty well at then
says, yeah, let's go up. Let's do this. And then
let's get the guy. We really, really want. So we'll see if
the Panthers stay at six. I don't know if they will, but if
they do trade down then I think, you know, either, they
will get another quarterback or they can say, yeah, we're
trading down because we want more assets because we know we
need to build
around the Q. Be a little bit more than we just need a QB.
And then that's when they could go after somebody like Baker,
Mayfield,
and they are moving on from Baker, Mayfield because
they got DeShaun Watson in Cleveland. Here's Kevin
stefanski about the guy that we saw show up in the snow.
Wondering, what the hell am I doing in Cleveland?
It's snowing on April 19. Do we have that photo?
I mean, but it's April 19. Now it's snowed here too,
but he could have been in Atlanta. He could have been in
been in New Orleans. He could have been in sure. It's So it
in Charlotte on April 19 and pay once happy.
It's not
being from there. It's also not snowing. It's antibiotic on
here for my teacher. So, you know, but I'm you know, I don't
like get people. Don't need it. You don't need to be mad about
Cleveland. All right, Cleveland's a
good place to live. It's a great place to raise a family
and it's a lovely city.
Yeah. I love Cleveland. Here's Kevin stefanski. Talking about
his new quarterback, DeShaun Watson.
He's doing a really nice job, you know, learning the system.
He's spending a lot of time with Jacoby and Josh, you know,
we really have
three new quarterbacks in there.
So there's a lot of learning that's going on. There's a lot
of teaching as you can imagine. I think he's doing a nice job
of diving into it and there's really no no way to do it other
than to start at square one and go back over
how we call things formations defense attorney mythology Etc,
and he's doing a nice job.
Okay? With the quarterback, you
I want this to be a collaboration
and its really all quarterbacks are different and you want to
make sure you meet them where they are
to Sean's. Very open-minded to trying different things that he
hasn't done.
Similarly. We're very open minded to putting in schemes
that he has a lot of success in that, we haven't done for
instance. So
it's an ongoing conversation, but just,
I would tell you day in and day out with him just spending time
with him yesterday. And today,
he wants to
certainly grow as he's a player
and he wants to try different concepts and
And you know, we'll see how it goes, but they have a lot
invested. And just like I said earlier in the program with
Trey, Lance all the pressure, that's placed on him. I doubt
there are few players in the NFL this year. They're going to
be feeling greater pressure than DeShaun Watson, especially
if he
suspended. Let's just say six games to start the season
week 7. There. It is. Everybody else has their has their, you
know,
round three sweat going. And they've been banging away.
And here comes to Sean Watson, first time. We've seen him play
since January of twenty Twenty-One his last game with
the Houston Texans. It's going to be a lot of pressure on him.
He's going to be feeling it to
deliver to justify the contract, to justify
the investment, to justify dealing with the distraction, and
I continue to believe that it's in his best interest to make
that all go away, settle those cases control, what you can
control and you can control those cases, whatever it takes,
make them go away and put that behind you because if those are
still lingering
when he makes his debut,
that's even more pressure. Sure on DeShaun Watson Mi
certainly and it's something that's going to continue to
hang over his head, you know, throughout whatever it is. And
it's going to continue to hang over the team
as well. So it's not just gonna be Deshawn Watson's coming
back. Oh, let's ask the Sean Watson about the relevance of
these cases and how? It's taking a toll on him and this
and that
and the third, it's going to be asking every single player
who's on. That team, if he is suspended for six games when he
comes back, it's going to be What do you think about this?
Well, how are you going to adapt to the Sean Watson? What
is this? What is that? What
is this? What is that? And it's going to be the same thing
probably with throughout training camp as well. So
like you said, I mean the sooner he can settle these
cases,
the better off, he is going to be in probably the better off
the Browns are going to be so we'll have to see what happens
there.
And
I just I hope that there's an epiphany that or and
I understand here's the
Mmm, and this is what it's going to take. I've said this
before, but let me just Hammer this home. They need a retired.
Judge to get everyone in the room together and somebody
needs to speak to Tony Buzz because I think he's going to
try to exploit the situation
and jack up the price
to settle these cases because he knows there's urgency on
the part of the Sean Watson in Cleveland. It would be wrong
for Busby to do that. He needs to do right by his clients
and DeShaun Watson needs to do right by the plaintiffs. And
they need someone with the Right Touch to bring these two
sides together and make this.
This go away in everyone's best interest.