Colin Cowherd: âI donât like being labeled Iâm a âhaterâ for anything, itâs one of the few things that bothers me. I add context to stuff. I donât like this whole label of âyou donât like Baker Mayfield!â I said I wouldnât draft him, a little too much off-the-field nonsense, but heâs a âfranchise quarterbackâ â not mine. I said his ceiling is lower than what everyone is saying, but heâs a franchise quarterback. His comp. is not Drew Brees, thatâs stupid. His comp. is Case Keenum, to which people were outraged. Case Keenum went like 11-3 one year when he had a good Minnesota team. Keenum can play, heâs one of the best backups in the league. Baker is better than Keenum, but they have similarities physically. They donât have a huge arm. Baker has a better arm than Case. They arenât great athletes, they donât have big size but the guys can ball. When I said that I had a GM text me and heâs like âyouâre right on that, nobody will ever give you credit.â Yesterday, Kevin Stefanski came out and said âI think Baker Mayfield is just going to get better and better.â My takeaway is NO. What you saw last year is his ceiling, and it AINâT a bad ceiling. He had the highest-graded offensive line, the best running back duo, and they had an easy schedule. They went 8-0 against the awful NFC East, and the mostly awful and dysfunctional AFC South. The other eight games they went 3-5 and he completed 59% of his throws. Against the awful NFC East and AFC South he was 8-0 with 14 touchdowns and only 2 picks. This year Clevelandâs schedule gets WAY tougher⌠If you look at Baker Mayfield last year and Case Keenumâs best year ever itâs the same guy. Thatâs it, thatâs ALL Iâve ever said⌠The minute you pay Baker you canât have both running backs, you canât have the best graded offensive line, and you canât have the most underrated receiver in the NFL Jarvis Landry⌠Last year when they told Mayfield to carry the team and throw over 35 times he was 1-4⌠This is not a shot at Baker. Iâm just saying what Iâve always said. Heâs a franchise quarterback, and his ceiling is lower than all the nonsense on the interweb⌠Itâs very troubling, Cleveland takes a lot of shots at me, itâs very personal, and itâs very painful!!!â (Full Video Above)
Listen to Colin Cowherd reaffirm his stance that heâs not a âBaker Mayfield haterâ, as Colin says Cleveland Browns fans seem to keep thinking heâs grading Mayfield way lower than what most media pundits and fans alike would access him as out of spite.
Cowherd notoriously once said that Baker was âundraftableâ, and even traded barbs with Mayfield on Twitter in the past.
Check out the video above as Colin details why heâs sticking with his original take that Mayfield is simply a better version of Case Keenum.
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