emerge from round one, or two
with a quarterback, could they trade for one of the two big
names? We've had our eyes on for the past, several weeks
Baker, Mayfield of the Browns, Jimmy Garoppolo the 49ers
fitter address that yesterday. Here's what he had to say.
We're going to get through the draft this weekend
and see what happens.
You know, we do have options outside of the draft.
We like guys in the draft. So
we'll just see how it plays out
and we'll make the best decision for this team
over the next, you know, a couple weeks. Why are some
quarterbacks available that are out on the market? You have to
ask yourself that. So,
you know, obviously every time you draft a quarterback, you
know, ideally, you want them through the draft, but
however, we get them how whatever it takes to get them
in the door here, once we get them will work. Develop them.
And that's
that's just kind of the process that will go about.
Why are some quarterbacks available there on the market?
There are panthers fans hand? Hey, Scott. Why don't you think
of that last year before you gave up a second round, pick in
the third round. Pick for Sam Darnell. Come on, come on, man.
So but that is a cautionary tale for everyone just because
a guy's available. Yeah, there is a red flag there, right
teams. Don't move on from quarterbacks that are going to
become franchise guys, in cornerstones of the team for
years to come. So
you do have to ask yourself.
Do I take someone else's
Reject, or do I go out and roll the dice on someone? Who's
completely unproven? But as you've said, I think you've
said this Baker, Mayfield is the best quarterback in this
draft class that if you're going to
to go after a quarterback, don't draft one of these guys,
go get Baker, Mayfield. Did you say that? I did not, but I did
not say that. Yeah, that was somebody else somebody else.
But I mean, I understand that logic there I do. I mean,
yeah. Yeah, the all these guys. He Baker Mayfield's,
you know, arm is better than Kenny Pickett. Yeah. Does he
have maybe Some of the high-end attributes that Corral and
Willis have, I don't, they have some things that, you know,
their ultimate ceiling if they could reach it could be greater
than Baker. Mayfield. In my opinion,
it can. But, you know, we know Baker, Mayfield got some. So
there's some stuff about him Talent on the field and
a little Pizzazz off the field to that can be a good or bad thing
and you just got to measure that.
So yeah. We'll see how it plays out. But Carolina with no
second. Third round pick know if they don't take that
quarterback at
It's all right. So now they trade down,
you know, maybe what. So, they trade down to the mid teens.
They going to take a quarter back there. I don't know.
I still don't really believe it. I don't, I think this is all
a ruse by them. I just don't imagine them being in the,
the quarterback Market, you know, and the first round, at least
it is very possible to talk yourself into the glass being
more than half-full on Baker Mayfield. When you consider, he
spent four years with one of the most dysfunctional.
Franchises.
Over the past 20 years in the NFL a year with Hugh Jackson
a year with Freddie kitchens as the head coach. Well, it was
Hugh Jackson and then it was Greg Williams after Hugh
Jackson got fired and Baker. Mayfield actually played pretty
well that year. Yeah. He despite all the crap going on
in Cleveland, right? Then. They hire
the guy they never should have hired to be the head coach. He
regresses, then first year with Kevin stefanski. He's as good
as he's ever been. And then last year he gets injured week
two and it falls apart of me.
There's enough air. If you're looking for a silver lining,
it's thick its prominent. And you can talk yourself into
Baker, Mayfield, you really can. If you factor in
the reality that he played for a crap organization, all due
respect too late for that. But that's the way the Browns had
been. They're getting better. They are getting better. Yeah,
don't definitely are go crazy. Yeah. Browns fans. They are
getting better and you should be
happy about that. But 34 years ago. It was as bad as it could
be, and he still thrived relatively speaking in that
environment. So that's
like I yeah, II don't know what's gonna happen because
it's a complicated situation. I wish for the Browns. How much
are they going to pay? How much is someone else going to pay?
What draft pick? Are you going to give up? Are you comfortable
bringing this guy in on a one-year deal? Are you
comfortable with his personality? Having the time to
do all the work on
it, you go back and look at your
reports and scouting
on him from four years ago.
If it was easy, he would already be traded and I think
anyone who's looking for a quarterback now wants to see
what happens.
Round one and or round two of the draft before calling a shot
on Baker. Mayfield, I think. Right there. Let's see how it
goes. Let's see how it falls, you know, maybe
maybe they're one of these teams has got,
you know, a pretty
high grade on a guy like Desmond Ritter or howl from
North Carolina to where they think. Oh, maybe they'll be
sitting there in the third round and we'll use some of our
pics to get back into third round to make a pick. I mean,
they certainly can make those type
of moves if that's if that's their the baker Mayfield thing.
Mike. I think you bring a lot of points. I think,
you know, with Baker.
Yeah, there's Excitement about what he can do on the field. If
I'm a team there is
there, just there's this, the trepidation of wait,
it mean Cleveland seem to want to get rid of them pretty fast
and, you know, the things we brought up over the last few
weeks. We've still yet to hear anybody from the Cleveland
Browns. Football team
really stick up for Baker, Mayfield over the last year and
a half. So that's weird. So I think those questions are out
there in the NFL little bit like, you know, yeah, we think
he's gonna be good in the locker room, but we've heard
a few
Stories about the damn guy and we're not sure.
And then Jimmy Garoppolo
at, you know, the big thing there is the same thing we
talked about. It's just it's going to be hard because
they're everybody's going to go but wait, I mean, okay, he's
pretty good on film. Okay, but
they are all they want to do is get rid of him for three years.
So, why would I want them? It's been three years of just trying
to get rid of this guy and that people question that too.
And then they get into start digging into. What's the guy
like off the field and all that stuff and you start to hear
that stuff too. And I think that, you know, can hurt both
of these guys a little bit in that department.