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It never gets any better than it does on the way in the door.
It's never going to be any better between Baker Mayfield
and the Carolina Panthers.
Then it is
right now. Easy to say all the right things
right now.
You throw in some adversity.
You shake gently?
Or more than gently
as you lose a few games
and you see what happens, very easy on the way in the door. To
say,
for example, Sam Donald and I are going to push each other,
to be better, very easy. To say,
when Baker, Mayfield is presumably
the starter.
What if Baker, Mayfield's presents pushes? Sam Donald.
To be better than he's ever been.
What if Sam Donald wins
the job?
What if the?
Five million dollar investment in Baker. Mayfield
has the unintended effect
Of turning. Sam Donald
Into the guy that he was supposed to be. He was supposed
to be the first pick in the 2018 draft,
not Baker, Mayfield
until we got closer to the draft and settled down, but
Donna was three and Mayfield was one. And it's easy to say
the right things. For now, when the competition starts
if it goes sideways from a field, that's when
Things may not be as great as they are today, and I'm not
rooting for that. I love some chaos. I like good stories,
I like intriguing content and
yeah, it would be a good story.
If the unexpected happens, it's always a good story. When
the unexpected happens, we like a good twist,
that's a hell of a plot twist the Panthers. Go out to get
Baker Mayfield and it
awakens the Beast that has been lying dormant
within Sam. Darn old
That would be a hell of a plot twist. And then,
How does bigger Mayfield deal with?
So my point is this,
There's no reason for any dysfunction now.
And there's no reason to think that Sam Donald is suddenly
going to become the best possible version of himself and
it's going to be better than Baker Mayfield. They went out
and got Mayfield after they saw
what Donald did last year. And after they witnessed how he
handled himself in the team's offseason program, if they
thought that they were sitting on a franchise quarterback in
Sam, Donald, they wouldn't have gone after Baker Mayfield. So
now we'll see,
we'll see what happens.
We'll see
if adversity, if competition.
if any type of
Unwelcome development
causes Baker, Mayfield to revert to the God. We saw from
time to time in Cleveland will Surly
won't truculent that the media
has he changed. Has he mature, has he taken to Heart
the Lessons Learned in Cleveland,
or in his mind.
Are they wrong? And he's right. It reminds me a little bit
of what happened with Carson Wentz last year,
gets thrown out of Philly, find Safe Harbor with a family
member in Indy, and Frank Reich.
And is able to say,
it wasn't
me.
It was them.
They were wrong. I was right.
I'm not changing. I'm going to keep being who I am.
Now, this year, Carson Wentz would be wise to realize it was
him
and he better turn it around or he's going to be out of
the NFL.
Where's Baker? Mayfield on the overall maturity scale? How
seriously is he taking the criticism
from his time in Cleveland? And what will happen
when things inevitably
go a little sideways, you're not going to go 17 and 0 watch.
Now they're going to go 17 and up, they're not going to go 17
and 0,
they're going to lose it.
There's going to be a win. That maybe doesn't go as well. Like,
the Lions game last year when Baker Mayfield, didn't talk to
the media, even though the team won the game,
he didn't have a good game
Surly about that. Surely about a lot of things and that's
certainly in this can Propel him.
It can be a key ingredient being the best player you can
be. But at the same time,
you'll learn how to turn it off. And part of it is maturing
look. The brain isn't fully developed to 25, 26 years old,
you're capable of changing and growing learning from your
mistakes. We'll see.
First he's got to admit that he made mistakes in Cleveland.
He may have emerged from his Cleveland experience thinking
they were crazy.
I was saying, I'm going to keep behaving the way I always have.