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He is balling out.

27 of 32 on Sunday night big game
2 TD's 297 yards

126.2 QBR

27 of 32 !

I think we have our FRANCHISE QB

i think Baker's emergency is a few things, finally a legit QB coach for Baker with Van Pelt, Lindley should never coach QB's ever again. And stefanski creating an offense that tailors to Bakers strength and Baker trusting the offense and in turn trusting his eyes more

Baker Mayfield just broke a #Browns record for completion percentage in a game. Mayfield went 27 of 32 tonight (84.3%) besting besting the previous Cleveland record of 82.9% set by Kelly Holcomb in 2003.
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https://twitter.com/Jake_Trotter/status/1340872823489908736

Gee, he does seem to be improving

Baker is doing things I didn't think he was going to be able to do after his stunted development. It makes me happy.

And as of now, he has a winning record. 22-21

We've literally witnessed a light going on for our QB.

I would say he's playing like a top 5 QB. So many plus level throws.

I was very pessimistic and didn't think it was possible. I am very glad I was wrong.

Since the bye week, when Baker said Stefanski and Van Pelt helped him a ton, he has been on fire. In this offense and with this coach I don't see how he takes a huge step backwards. I think this is who he is going to be.

Baker Mayfield against the blitz tonight: 12-of-13, 10.5 yards per attempt — career-best performance for Baker vs. blitz via
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#browns

https://twitter.com/Jake_Trotter/status/1340878404959256577

I have defended Baker from the Beginning but I also was beginning to lose faith in him, but no More Baker is our Franchise QB NO DOUBT

This is what I noticed today... and he did it with a poise we haven't seen before.

It's little things, week after week, they add up -- and the good outweighing the bad makes him almost exponentially better.

He's improved as the season has progressed and that's what we needed to see. For that matter so has the team. We're seeing what we need to see.

Seeing him improve with making progressions, reading defenses, understanding situations, etc is SO satisfying. What fabulous coaching as well.

This is who we’ve longed for.

That's how it works for all QB's. Lamar and Josh Allen aren't anything without the offense they're in.

We drafted the correct QB at #1.

Undoubtedly Dorsey's best pick and decision.

Shocking what can happen when you give talent the correct environment and support to succeed.

There are still people claiming to be Browns fans on Twitter hating on him every day. I've reached the conclusion that they are just trolls. Other than getting us into, and winning, some playoff games, the guy has nothing left to prove as a 3rd year QB.

A lot of people early this season were saying Baker was the 4th best QB in our division.. (some people jokingly put him behind Jarvis Landry) I hope Joe Burrow is ok, he looks like he will be good but that injury was serious.. Ben is old and can't have more than a year or two left and his replacement isn't on the roster.. Lamar is really good at what he does, but does anybody expect Lamar to be doing what he's doing 5 years from now? Right now, in this division, there isn't a QB I would take over Baker Mayfield.

I'm as pro-Baker as anybody, but our receivers deserve a ton of credit for last night's win too. Not all the receptions were "wide open". There were some great tight window catches too. I can't remember any "drops."

Baker mayfield is that dude. Finally. We got the guy!

This has been the point all along as we have cycled through coaches and QBs like fat people go through Tums... it's not hard to imagine that having a solid OL, great backs, very good receiving options, and quality coaching help a QB to grow and perform. Baker is playing very well and I'm not saying any of our old QBs could do what he's done but we finally have a situation where a QB can be successful.

Baker had one his patented "get my receiver killed" passes on play #1 which had me thinking to myself "oh boy, here we go..." but after that, for the rest of the game he was pretty much spot on. I think I remember him with 1 pretty bad miss to Jarvis, but was otherwise spot on the rest of the evening.

Though Giants pass D is pretty bad, Baker did a good job of making up for our ailing Oline (we had a hard time running the ball against their stout Dline with our hurting Oline).

here are his updated stats:
2020
3082 yards
64.04 Completion %
99.4 QBR
25 TD
8 INT
I think he cracked the top 10 this week

Career
10,634 yards
62.2 Completion %
89.7 QBR
74 TD
43 INT

Guilty as charged, I was calling for Case Keenum after the Steelers game.

I'm an idiot.

Last night's game was closer to my expectations for BM. Great QB rating and production. He seemed to "own" his game last night. Considering what we are missing, last night was a statement effort, albeit against a team we should have roughed up more, but their team had some solid stuff going in and Colt McCoy played over his head with what he had IMO.

You are your record. I can live with that.

The past 5-6 weeks have showed us a QB that we haven’t had for 30 years .. and maybe ever.

Baker is improving significantly and is making our offense very hard to stop.

Been in Baker's corner from the get-go.

This offense is designed to take advantage of Baker's skill set.

Kudos to Berry and Stefanski for their assessment that the o-line was absolute crap last year (Robinson - what a joke) and needed significant upgrading. For drafting the best tackle and determining that he could be "switched" from Right to Left because he had the necessary skill set, signing the best RT - Conklin, and also for hiring Callahan.

I want to know what happened on those incompletions?

He needs to clean up his game.

Thanks

I assume this is a joke, but one of the incompletions was 4th down and it was batted down at the line of scrimmage, which actually is something Baker needs to work on... maybe the only thing, other than that I can't recall him making a "mistake" (using mistake loosely here since anyone can have a ball batted down, he just does it at a higher rate than taller QBs)

He missed an open Landry and I believe the other three misses were throwaways. Pretty impressive outing. Yes, Peen was joking.

He threw one behind Landry I believe that was blatant inaccuracy. We basically need another QB. That's not going to cut it.

That's definitely going to jinx it.

It's amusing to hear the talking heads go nuts over Justin Herbert breaking Mayfield's rookie TD pass record, "and he's got TWO MORE GAMES LEFT to demolish it." Umm, how many games did it take Baker to set his record?

TROOPER,
It is impressive...nothing wrong with giving the kid credit. He and Baker are tied in 14 games, but Herbert will hold the record, since he'll get 16.

I always hated that jersey thing lol