because I've said for a long time. Now that privately my
guess is Baker, Mayfield is a gigantic right pain in the ass,
right? And didn't we get
flashes of that yesterday, even though they weren't really
pushing his buttons
directly just talking about these different concepts and
yukking it up about his desire to go Heckle
someone at their
workplace. Yeah. It tells you how he gets
motivated by the
fans when he's the visiting teams quarterback to stick it
to them. That's how he's wired. He said at one point, he's
gotten a
Napoleon complex. How he's north of six foot. Was he got
the Napoleon complex, I guess. Small for a quarterback. Is
Napoleon is for a quarterback. All gigantic. It is Napoleon
issue,
but we got an idea of what a pain in the ass. He can be yes
when you are away from cameras and microphones and he's got
something that's got him pissed off and something he's
complaining about.
Out. Well, let's go ahead and play that. Let's do that clip
from Baker, Mayfield talking about kind of the way he is and
maybe explaining indirectly why the Browns had enough of it.
And like I'd be lying to you if I didn't say that I got caught
up in all the like negativity and stuff
during the year last year
postseason. I got my surgery was out in California. My
marketing agents out there,
had him grab all my social media
changed, all the passwords to lead off. My phone.
Only thing I have is Bleacher Report. That's why I getting
football notification. That's the only reason I know anything
going on in the world and people are like, so critical of
it. It's like these guys are, that's the way based on
the line. I would love
to show Somebody's cubicle
and just booed the shadow.
Yeah and see. And watch. Watch them crumble turns out.
I'm wrong.
I'm wrong for saying that.
He's Rock for saying it but he said it anyway, that's fine.
I got a little Latin me. Yeah sure. I'm about to do. It's
amazing to me
that he has both the lack of control and the self-awareness.
That that's a rare combination is
absolute lack of self-control,
but absolute self-awareness to say,
hey, hey, hey, take my phone change, all my social media
passwords.
Delete all I social media apps to protect me from me.
So I don't react to the people who criticize me. So I don't
punch down on the various people out there who are giving
me a hard time, which also tells me
there probably are one or more Baker. Mayfield burner accounts
out there because my guess is he fits the profile of guy who
would say what he needs to say
under the cover of someone else's social media.
Handel Opera, I wouldn't be surprised. I mean, I think
that's kind of common with that age group for sure to have that
for sure, just to have their voice or their opinion thrown
out there. And yeah, they don't have to attach their name to
it.
I do think it gives us a little introspective into
like, hey, yeah, I mean,
you know, just with that right there.
There's a problem with controlling, you know, the The
Temper or, you know, the, the emotions at times that it kind
of shows you that
it does, you know, and again, I think That's a dangerous line
for a quarterback. There is a line. There there is, you know,
again, I
Brady hey, I he pays attention to stuff but I think there's
a line where it doesn't affect him, and make him go crazy. It
might make him work hard or do things like that but he
understands how to cut it off and not let it affect the rest
of his life. And I think we've seen a
little with Baker Mayfield where you go.
I do think it affects you a little at times. Obviously
we're seeing that you were worried about it during
the Even when you should be focused on football and everything, you
know, other than social media and what's being out there.
So, I got to think that's part of, you know, the reason
Cleveland decided to end. The relationship
is a little bit of that emotional roller coaster and
the fact that you're not sure you can trust them. And, you
know, it's a dangerous way to live that way. I was like that.
Mike, look, you were talking about as a Young quarterback,
where I would remember all this guy said this about me, and I'm
going to shove it up, his new know what, and Of them wrong.
All that guy said that about me. I wish I could go to his
office and boo him and do that
well, and then I came to the realization and got a little
mature and go. Wait, wait, wait, wait. What am I talking
about here? I play professional football.
I'm making a lot of money. It's an entertainment business.
I'm on TV. Of course. I'm going to get some criticism here.
What the hell are you talking about? It's a different. It's
not Apples to Apples to the guy in the cubicle there. It's not,
you know, it's there's all the great things that go with
football and playing and being out there. And then yeah,
the other aspect is those three or four things that you got to
deal with the media?
The fans, booing you a little bit. So what and you know, when
you can come to that determination, then you could
be going with quarterback that you know can play on the field
and block that out and kind of compartmentalize it in a way.
And it doesn't seem Baker's
got there yet.
For a lot of the guys in the NFL. One of the realities is
they haven't fully developed. They haven't fully matured.
Yeah, sure. Brain doesn't completely develop until you're
25. One of the reasons.
Buy insurance rates for drivers, under the age of 25 or
higher is your brain hasn't fully made the connections
between
behavior and risk and outcome. So there's a lot of stuff that
happens when you're younger that you can't process and
I always feel badly that we dump these
kids into these situations and expect them to handle them.
Well, yeah,
how do you use it? Expect them to when they're 21, 22 23,
but you know what? Baker Mayfield turns 27 today, so
the brain is fully
Formed, he is, who he is, and happy birthday. By the way,
Baker, Mayfield, buddy, Bert, that's part of the problem. And
look
as he embarks on
his search for next team. And we're going to have some more
on that coming up very soon.
I would be leery about this. He would have to fit.
With what we are currently trying to do as a team, right,
his attitude, right?
Or I would have to have a pretty damn good plan for
understanding who he is,
understanding how he is. Yeah, right.
And nudging that in
the best possible Direction and believing that I could control,
the - not having become a problem
in the locker room on the practice field to the point where,
when things are going
Rough for him. No one speaks out in support of him as no one
with the Browns has its kind of jarring. Yeah. It's not
a single teammate has said, nobody did anything of
something, not even with Odell Beckham jr. And that stuff
happened either. Nobody know,
that's one of the things that bothered him. I write, one
thing zapato Del dot more
list, right? Long list of things that bothered him from
last year. Right up to an including
the Browns, have an in-house radio
network. That is right there in the middle of the facility,
dared to criticize him, right? They
dared to criticize. Yeah,
gets back to the whole safe spaces and
coverage of me on my own terms. Hey, why are they criticizing
me? But, you know, at some point either he's got a point
where either on the same team were part of the same family or
we're not write one of the risks of having your own media
operation
that covers you. Yeah, the Browns, have our radio program
that covers the Browns and they own it and they operated it is
kind of awkward. If you do start criticizing players on
the team, but it's an example of the unique wiring of Baker,
Mayfield.