With the Cleveland Browns set to face former franchise quarterback Baker Mayfield and the Carolina Panthers, there seems to be some brewing drama over the former quarterback’s relationship with defensive cornerstone, Myles Garrett.
This is why talking sports is annoying these days. You have reporters who take interviews and spin words to make their articles tell whatever narrative they want. For reference, check out Browns beat writer, Mary Kay Cabot’s recent article, which is just full of stuff that just doesn’t add up.
Taking comments from John Johnson and making it seem like the entire team hated Baker for sitting out the last game of 2021. Johnson came off injury to play. Even if what Johnson said was true, then it just paints a picture of a clueless locker room. Yes, Johnson came off injury to play the last meaningless game, however, not an injury requiring surgery. Not an injury that he played with since week 2 and making it worse as the season went on. Baker sat because he needed surgery and he’s the quarterback, you don’t play your injured QB in meaningless games. Players requiring surgery don’t play in meaningless games.
Did Garrett and Baker get along, who knows? Ok, Baker called Garrett out for the Rudolph situation in 2019. Garrett has called out the coaching staff. Which would mean Garrett is clearly hypocritical and second, Garrett screwed up big time and as a leader and the face of the team, Mayfield was in the right to acknowledge Garrett screwed up big time.
Also, Garrett wasn’t exactly loved in the locker room his first few years because he wasn’t very out going or inclusive with a lot of players.
Blaming Mayfield for the OBJ drama that OBJ’s dad started is absurd. Mayfield didn’t tell the team to trade OBJ. Mayfield wasn’t the one who posted that video and created the issue. I guess everyone can call out anyone, just not Garrett. For crying out loud, OBJ is out there publicly rooting on Mayfield this off-season. I highly doubt that people still blame Mayfield for that, also Mayfield wasn’t the one calling plays either.
And for the record, this whole Garrett is the best defensive player in the NFL is factually incorrect. The most dominant is Aaron Donald and the best DE is TJ Watt.
For a locker room and organization that wants to label a guy as immature to welcome in a player with 20-plus sexual assault accusations just shows what a joke they are as a team. For them to side with a player who routinely played for himself and didn’t run routes as designed, or for a player that wasn’t on the field when they played winning football, that dropped as many key passes as he was not thrown to when “open”, shows what a joke the team is.
The problem here is the team is a joke and has been a long running one, which by default makes the city a joke. The truth hurts sometimes.
The biggest problem since the Browns came back to the league is the Browns. They constantly get in their own way with poor ownership and front office decisions and lacking the ability to control their players.