Your hate for Baker skews your perspective... completely, totally, utterly.
I don't hate Baker Mayfield. I am just point out what he has been so far.
What he did last year doesn't matter, there have many flash in the pan QB's.
Scott Mitchell threw for 4,338 yards
(back in 1995 where it was much harder to pass the ball due to rules than it is now. You could mug receivers back then, hit them before the ball got there, etc it was all legit play) and 32 TD's, but he never done anything after that. Like Mayfield, Everyone thought he was the next franchise QB.
Rick Mirer as a rookie he set the NFL Rookie record for attempts, completions, and yards. He again however never done anything else in the NFL and his records were later broken by Peyton Manning. Again, like Mayfield, everyone thought he was the next franchise QB.
Derek Anderson from our own beloved Cleveland Browns won 10 games, threw 29 TD's, and over 3700 yards. He never got close to that again, many folks including people outside of Cleveland thought they finally found their QB, but he never reached those numbers again and done nothing after that.
In 1999 Steve Beurlein threw for 4, 436 yards and 36 TD's Everyone thought he was the "the guy", but he never was able to reach that success again.
Are you following me here? I could go on.
What Mayfield done last year doesn't mean anything. Past success does NOT indicate future success. A guy needs to pass the "eyeball test" and putting aside what Mayfield done last year, He is not passing the eyeball test.
Do you realize Baker Mayfield's QB rating of 13.1 is lower than any QB rating Deshone Kizer posted in the 2017 rookie campaign? How folks can defend that baffles me.
Look at Mayfield for what he is right now, forget last year, that was then, this is now. He isn't even playing up to backup quality at this point. Lots of fools gold and flash in the pan QB existed in the NFL in the last 30 years, and each game that goes by the more and more Mayfield looks like a Scott Mitchell or a Derek Anderson.
Its not that he isn't playing well, he looks completely LOST and SCARED out there. He doesn't even look like he even belongs on an NFL team. Right now he looks like a guy that only made the team because he was picked #1 by mistake.
The ball is in his court to fix this, but I have seen way too many bad QB's in my day. Just because he is the 1st pick in the draft doesn't mean he will end up being any good and right now he doesn't look good at all.
As i said before im willing to give him this year to figure it out and maybe next year if we see any progress, but right now he keeps taking steps backwards every week...i mean a 13 QBR that is beyond awful, beyond pitiful...The Patriots cut their back up early in the year and replaced him with someone for posting like a 68 QBR in relif of Brady...a 13? you kidding me?