Obviously in the wake of the Browns win over the Bengals – which was a struggle – you heard about Baker Mayfield ripping the Cleveland training staff to the media. Without question, it’s been a nightmare of a season by the lake for the Cleveland Browns and their ‘quarterback of the future’.
Seemingly opening himself up to criticism before the season started, Mayfield made a side-handed comment about the Giants’ drafting of Daniel Jones. Then Mayfield has preceded to go out, and be completely out-played by the rookie counterpart.
Now, Colin Cowherd weighs in on the heels of some reports by Jay Glazer that Odell Beckham Jr. wants out of Cleveland, and pronto.
.@ColinCowherd responds to Baker Mayfield calling out Cleveland Browns' medical staff: pic.twitter.com/QjH1V7D3Qu
— Herd w/Colin Cowherd (@TheHerd) December 9, 2019
First, Cowherd says the move to acquire Beckham never made sense in the first place.
“I made a call yesterday to someone in the league I trust, they’re telling me the same thing. I’m not piggy-backing this, it made no sense. They already had three good running backs, they already had David Njoku, a terrific tight-end. Their issue was offensive line. Yet they traded away their best or second best offensive lineman for OBJ. It never made sense, but Cleveland tends to be one of these low self esteem franchises. They want to make a big splash and be the talk of the league, that’s what people with low self esteem do. They reach for success, and they whiff on it.”
Then Cowherd expands upon why Beckham is a terrible fit for a quarterback like Mayfield. Simply, it comes down to Mayfield’s constant display of immaturity.
“OBJ, and I called this; he’s not gonna be happy. He will have career-lows for targets. Also you knew that Baker Mayfield was immature. I mean Baker is an accurate thrower of the football, but we saw it in college. We also saw it in his first year in the NFL, he can’t handle himself. He’s constantly in trouble, and Baker goes out this weekend and rips the training staff of the Browns. I don’t know what he was thinking. Then you could have brought in a mature or veteran wide receiver, not a diva like Beckham who is an icon and building a brand. It never made sense and I never understood it, but Cleveland has a problem now.”
In conclusion, it’s hard to disagree with Cowherd in any of these statements. If I am the Browns, I sit back and take a look at my decision-making from the top down. Notably, they still don’t have it right. From the uniform disaster to who they select in drafts, to the trades they make, and the players they destroy one after another; the Browns can’t get out of their own way.
It seems a never ending cycle that repeats itself every fall and winter, with rival organization lapping them and laughing along the way.
