On The Baker Mayfield Trade.
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The NFL Offseason Has Run Down To The Fumes Like A Late Night Work Up With a Drained Out pot Off Coffee. Only Gritty Dregs Of The Once Glorious Brew Still Floating At The Bottom. The Football News Circuit Got A Quick Boost, An Expresso Shot, With The Latest Baker Mayfield Trade. After a Near Month Of Deliberating And Coordination Between Three Parties, the Browns Granting Baker His Undying Wishes To End this Chapter of His Football Careee.
Now Most Of The NFL Offseason Coffee Is Finalized. With Only Gritty Dregs and Veteran Hold Still Justifiably Discussable Of The Glorious Brew.
The Resolution For The Two Parties Came Wednesday; The Cleveland Browns Traded Former number One Pick And Franchise Guy Baker Mayfield To The Panthers for a conditional fifth-round pick. Brown Will Absorb $10 Million Of The Remaining $18 Million Of Baker’s Contract. The Panther Will Pay Mayfield $5 Million And Have The Rest Of The Contract Converted To Incentives For Mayfield.
Of course, By The Time Cleveland's brain trusted Faxxed The News To The Press Release Baker Mayfield Explicitly Divulged The “Nature” Of The Deal, The Relationship Already Seemed Unsalvageable. Some Plaudits Speculated The Two Would Resolve Their differences, At Least for The Money And Competition. Both Remaining Entwined For One More Season. Seeing As The Browns Quarterback Situation becomes Growingly Worrisome through the weeks.
But Baker Mayfield Shut Down Any Reasoning For Reconciliation Matter Of Factly At A Camp He Hosted A week Ago. And He Implored That the Two Sides Would Only Work On Splitting and The Details Of The MAtter Would Only be Splitting Hairs From Here on Out. That Was Last Week And The Football World Moves Fast.
The Trade Buzz Simmer Down After The Season Then the Deshaun Watson Courting Began. Once The Former Texan Got Signed The Next Logical Step, Move Mayfield. The Browns Had Few Suitors, Only Seattle And Carolina Had Overt Needs For Quarterback Competition And Neither Seemed Eager To Give In Return For Cleveland’s Discard project
Unless You're Wired Directly Into The NFL News/Machine Like Some Stat Infuse life Support Device, You May Have to Overlook The Baker Mayfield Move And Availability As Just Another Forlorn Quarterback Hoping To Prolong A Career, Derelict Of Promise.
If Not, Of Course, For Mayfield’s Association With Another Quarterback. Deshaun Watson And All That Comes Along With Mentioning His Name May Be the Single Driving Force Mentionable Media Coverage. The New Cleveland Quarterback Has Had A stark Narrative Pushed Upon Him As The Dilemma For His Sexual Misconduct Unfolds. The Media Coverage Or Tonality Surrounding Watson Builds More Like veritable “Witch Hunt.” The Whole Thing, It’s become Tantamount To a PR Oil Spill, And Despite How Things Unfolded Last Season For The Brown, The Team Would Move On From Mayfield. Their Number Pick of 2018, The Arm That Lead The Browns Out Of One Of The Longest Playoff Droughts In History. But Mayfield Took A Step Back. What the Former Oklahoma star Achieve In 2021. 26 Touchdowns, Eight Interceptions. Falling Impressive Chad Henne Run Short Of Besting The Chief and Routing The NFL One Of The NFL's Least Competitive Franchises For Good Stretch Of Tome To The AFC Championship. Mayfield, With All Of “Crouch Grabbing” Competitive Moxie, Sent A Signal To The Rest Of The League That, With Him, The Browns Will “Compete” And Soon Content And Be A force In The League. The team Finished 0-16 the season Before Drafting Mayfield and ore in a 1-31 Two year Stretch Of Competitive Dissonance. With A Young-Impactful Defense, The Browns Could Compete For a Long Time, And If Anything, the Former Walk-On, Excelled at, Competing. He Cut His Teeth With Arizona Cardinals Coach Kliff Kingsbury At Texas-tech. The Moved On To Lead Oklahoma To to Three Big 12 Title. He Won the Most Enviable Award in College Sports, The Heisman. And Lead Oklahoma To The Most Coveted Space In College Sports, The College Football Playoff, Twice.
Mayfield, Baker Showed Promise But He Didn’t Convince. As A Number One Pick, the “Promise” Part of The Deal Comes On Draft Night. The Fulfillment Part Comes Every Day After. Of Course, The Browns Development Plan Didn’t Go As Planned,”.
Or Maybe The Plan Succeeded, but The Results Weren’t What They Intended. You Can Never Go Wrong Bringing Along A Quarterback Slow, The Prevailing Theory Goes. But Where Does “Protection” And “Exposure” Kind Of Cut Off?. The Scheme and Intention Of Freddie Kitchens’ Offense May Have Contributed To Mayfield Detriment. Out the Gate, The Browns had A Stellar run Game With Nick Chubb And Eventually Kareem Hunt. The Run Game Became Even More Impactful Once The Bolstered The Offensive Line.
TIn The Pre-Patrick Mahomes Era, Nobody In League Believed In An Air Raid Quarterback Could Come Into The League Prepare To Run A NFL First The Brown Leaned in The Running Game And Design Easy Throw With Layers Or Play Action For Mayfield To Parse open Windows.
The Stratagem Work. The Browns Pot Started To Bubble A Bit And The Offense Wanted To Add More “Flavors.” Teams Would Key In On The Brown’s “Tendencies” And Force Mayfield Longer Processes.
On Top Of That, The Brown Morphed or Started the Transition Into a winning Team. Not Only Don’t the Winning Team Beat Themselves, but Winning also Don’t Just Win; they Dominate. The Brown Signed Pass Catchers Austin Hooper and Odell Beckham Jr.
Odell Would Bring a Pure Number One Threat To Cleveland. The expectation Was “Monstrous,” The First True 100 Yard Talent In Cleveland I Years. Of Course, Expectation Those Thorny Things. Again, The Process Had A Adverse Effect. The More, The Browns added The Grievously They Exposed Baker’s Limitation to the roster.
Of Course, Just As Europeans Brought New “Illnesses” To The New World, Odell Would Brought Something Foreign and Virulent To Cleveland, “Ego.” Beckham had one Thousand yards a season. He looked at the Part Then Struggle The Rest Of His Career In Cleveland. When Things Boiled Down, he and Mayfield Couldn’t Exist, And There Were No Tears About That.
“Beckham wasn’t great when he had opportunities. And Mayfield missed him far too often.” by The Time Beckham Got waived, His Presence On The Team Had Vanished To A Fleeting Whisper. But The Brown Couldn’t Rehabilitate The Damage.
What You Get a lot From Analyzing Baker Under Center Watching The Brown’s Crater as The Offensive Architecture Tried To Create “Extended Time To Process With Limited Reads To Make.” Essentially Meaning, No pure progressive passing Concept, Just More Read And React As Hard As That Sounds In The NFL The quarterback's Eyes are Trained to One Side With Three Levels Of Options That Must Break Open Or It’s Grounded. The Worst Thing For Offense in NFL To Become, Limited and Predictable and By Consequence Ineffective. On A Shrunken An Average Runner/Athlete Mayfield Must Read Vertical( Go Route Or Over Route). When Facing A Two High She’ll, he Would opt For The Checkdown, Which Doesn’t Have Much Value Because The Coverage Knows His Limits. His EPA On Checkdown Fell Below League Average. Defenses Can Then Infer On His Process and Sit On The Check Down. Forcing Baker To Throw Deep and risk Throwing, adding To 10 Plus Interception In A Season.
Mayfield Got Hurt Week 2 Of The Season. Mayfield Tore The Labrum In His Non-Throwing Shoulder. Even In A Non-Throwing Shoulder, the Discomfort Be Masked By Just Injection. Baker Mustered, The All Moxie He, Could Play Through The Pain. His Team Just Fell Short Of Conference Final. And That Extension Thing Still Needed A Resolution. PlAying Through An Injury, A sign Of Fortitude Dud Little Valorize Mayfield’s Status With The Team. Matter Of Fact, He Routine Made the Offense Worse. The Injuries Compound Mayfield’s Already Suspect Field processing and The Lackluster Receiving Group That Couldn’t Lift The Weight Of Mayfield Anymore.
Furthermore, A Browns Beat writer Divulge That Baker’s Antic s Earned The Brown’s Forlorn Quarterback Wryly Status “as childish and immature,” “His behavior annoyed teammates and divided the locker room. He was often difficult to coach.” Jason Lloyd, a Browns Beat Writer Continued
The Former Star Went On To Post The Worse QBR Of His Career, Even Worse Than His Rookie Year. When PFF Posted his Week Performances On A Graph, They Read Like a Wall Street Journal Stock Assessment During COVID-19. Up, Down, Up, Down…
Like a Butterfly Still Too Weak To Evolve, They Couldn’t Shake The Chrysalis Of Their OwnMediocrity. Soon The Entire Cleveland Shell was Imploded. Baker Reverted from “Budding Gunslinging” To “Capable Starter.” The "addition by subtraction" That The Release Of Odell Beckham Jr. inspired Simply Return A View Of removing One Log From The Eye But Only Sharpened Perspective of the Specks In The Brown’s Offense.
After 14,592 Yards, 96 Touchdowns, and 57 Interceptions, Mayfield Heads To Carolina.
The Panthers Are The Living; Half Functioning Quintessence That Justifies Why NFL Teams Obsess And portion The Lions Share Of Resources Towards Scouting, Developing, And Bartering For Quarterbacks. You Can Honestly Have Nothing Of A Team If You Don’t Have One Good Quarterback Operate Structure Consistently. With Each Passing And Going Of Successes And Failures, The Knowledge On Producing A New Quarterback Gets Muddier.
Today The Panthers Have Found Themselves In Quarterback Nowhere’s Land For the better Part of Three Years Period, With No Clue As To How They Got There. The Brown Know That Place all Too Well And Made A very Dubious Move For Deshaun Watson. A Move Moves Payoff Ultimately Hinges On The NFL Disciplinary Process.
Every Year It Seems Head Coach Matt Rhule Shuffles In Used Quarterbacks—Like A Kid Shuffling Through A Draw Of Old Batteries Hoping To Keep The Gameboy Advance On Long Enough To Win One More Badge—Just To Keep His Career Going Longer. The Panthers Became The Browns, and To Complete the Transformation, The Acquired Baker Mayfield.
Another Volatile Unproven Arm Talent Commodity. You Begin To Think Carolina Has become The NFL's Quarterback Rehabilitation Facility. An NFL Rendition Of Arkham Asylum. The Panthers Have Had Eight Starting Quarterbacks In Three Years. The Team Will Put The Relics Of Teddy Bridgewater, Who Matt Rhule Wanted And Signed For 3 Years 63 Million. PJ Walker, Who Came over From The Defunct XFL. and Cam Newton, Who Signed For 6 Million For A Second Run With The Team That Draft Him. The Second Run Lasted No More Than a Few Games. They Join Kyle Allen And Will Grier Into The “Failed” Products Bin.
The Panthers Enter A New Season With Baker Mayfield As The Projected Starter and Sam Darnold, Whom The Team Traded A Second Rounder And 18 Million For, Competing For The Opportunity Retain His Place On Depth Chart.
The Two Former Top 3 Picks Of 2018(Darnold no. 3 overall to Mayfield’s no. 1) Both Had Their Troubles adjusting To The League, Or Else They Would Be In Carolina.
Darnold led, The Panthers To A 3-0 Start To The Season, On A Three-Game Streak of Three Hundred Yard Plus In Three Straight Games No Less. After His QBR peak In Weak Three, Around 83, Darnold Play Crater And Injury Settled In Before Darnold Could ever Prove His Early Magic Grounded In Anything But A Hot Streak. Of Course, The Panthers Weak Offensive Line Didn’t Help. Darnold Can Be Accurate, But He Breaks Down When Forced out of Pocket Or Ask To Bend The field And The offense To His Will. He’s Been Farless Productive In His Career Than Mayfield, And Just Hasn’t Lived Up To the Hype Coming out of USC. The Two Quarterback Share Similar Limitations, so The Panthers are Hoping Here That Mayfield Can Bring To The Group Something Darnold Can’t, Like Maybe Playing A Full Season Of Football.
The Mayfield Trade Gives The Panthers Anther Gap year, if Anything, To Improve The Roster. The offensive line Should Be Better With The Inclusion of First Round Pick Ikem Okwonu. If All-Pro Running back Christian McCaffrey Could Return To Form And Help Assuage The Responsivity of The Quarterback On A Down To Down Basi,s That Would Goa an Along Way, But That Reliance on The Running Also Serves As An Indictment to the Quarterback.
On a Winning Team, The Quarterback Needs To Handle The Brunt of The offensive Responsibility.
What Does This All Mean For Matt Carrol? With Mayfield, Darnold, And PJ Walker Returning, a Few First And Second Team Reps Will Fa; To The Three Rounder Out of Ole Miss. How Will, The Rookie, Get A Chance To Improve And Adjust And develop If Mayfield And or Darnold Prove Incompatible.
Meanwhile, we will Mostly Likely be Without Deshaun Watson For What Looks Like Most Of The Season, if not all. The Brown Will Have Career Backup Jacoby Brissett To Lead The offense.
