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I have no idea how he will play or even if he will play. I do know he has played better with good coaching than with bad coaching.

Lol. That's exactly how I say it every time now... thanks to you.

Former Vikings Starter Released by Broncos

Nov 27, 2022; Charlotte, North Carolina, USA; Denver Broncos helmet. Mandatory Credit: Bob Donnan-USA TODAY Sports.
The 2022 Denver Broncos are going absolutely nowhere after the mammoth trade for Russell Wilson last spring, and they’re evidently making some roster tweaks.

Former Vikings executive George Patron released former Vikings starting safety Anthony Harris on Tuesday, concluding Harris’ brief stint with the team.

Harris, 30, joined the Broncos in September and has played hopscotch between the practice squad and active roster since.

With five weeks to go in the 2022 regular season, Harris hits free agency, and it’s unclear if he’ll have any suitors. Denver did not use Harris on defense this season, but the Virginia alumnus did experience 43 special teams snaps.

Harris has played 98 games in the NFL while starting 61, including stops with the Vikings, Philadelphia Eagles, and Broncos. Minnesota found Harris as an undrafted free agent in 2016, and the defender used a few development years in Mike Zimmer’s defense to claw his way to mini-stardom. In 2019, Harris led the NFL in interceptions and was considered by many a Pro Bowl snub. Minnesota retained Harris on the franchise tag in 2020, but his production dipped. He was not a priority to re-sign in 2021 amid a crunched Vikings salary cap.

In his eight-year career, Harris has tabulated 356 total tackles, 10 interceptions, 5 tackles for loss, 4 fumble recoveries, and 3 QB hits.

In August, the Eagles traded for Chauncey Gardner-Johnson, a safety from the New Orleans Saints who effectively took Harris’ starting job. The Garnder-Johnson trade made Harris expendable, sending the Virginia alumnus to the free agent wire and later Denver.


Dec 23, 2019; Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA; Minnesota Vikings cornerback Anthony Harris. Mandatory Credit: Brace Hemmelgarn-USA TODAY Sports.
In 2021, Harris started 14 games for the Eagles, tallying a 61.6 grade from Pro Football Focus. It was a stark departure from his herculean 90.5 score in 2019 but certainly wasn’t poor. He was tentatively slated to latch on with the Broncos on defense, but Nathaniel Hackett and Co. had other plans.

Former Vikings Mike Boone (RB), Tom Compton (OL), and Zach McCloud (OLB, PS) remain on Denver’s roster. Klint Kubiak is also the team’s quarterback coach.

The Broncos have effectively been eliminated from the postseason.


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That’s probably the first Corner Gas reference in DT history

Anthony Harris might be an option honestly

On Christmas Day there is a chance of a Baker Mayfield - Russell Wilson faceoff. Happy birthday, Jesus.

I saw this pop up somewhere else. What am I missing?
What's makes this a big deal? How is it any different than any other Qb matchup?

Probably because both guys have been so hyped and how attention starved they both are. Add in the fact that both have been beyond putrid and you have a snarky story.

You just can't help yourself can you? And yet you point the finger at everyone else.

The 49ers chose to stick with 'Mr. Irrelevant" Brock Purdy and Josh Johnson over picking up Baker Mayfield. Ouch.

It's funny to re-read the Baker thread when Watson was acquired wow his
Fan club really disappeared.

And one who hated Baker reappeared.

Yep when a QB plays like crap and asks for a trade from one team. Then during the following season plays like crap and asks to be released from that team. Fan clubs be like “ghost you time”

Bakerdawg has't posted in a while.

Maybe there is a God.

Oh? I hadn’t noticed his absence.

Was it something that one of us said?

I think a big part Of Baker's undoing was he was more interested
In being a celebrity than actually being a top flight NFL QB.
After his rookie year, his ego had to be fed.
His ego got bigger, his waistline expanded.

Well, Baker did in LA what he did here in his first appearance haha. Great comeback

My feelings for Baker is like when we bought a new expensive puppy to my daughter.

The damn dog is everywhere and nowhere. Peeing on the carpet. Barking in the middle of the night. Hair all over the house. Want to go out for a walk whenever I’m tired. The dog made me crazy and after a couple of years I wanted to sell it to the highest bidder but when my daughters, my wife and the whole fkng family started to cry I couldn’t abandon our beloved little Nellie.

It’s the same with Baker. He sometimes makes you so frustrated and angry with his childish and immature behavior that you want to throw him out of the window but in the end you can’t help yourself loving him. It’s strange. There’s something with him that’s hard to explain. He will never be as good as Mahomes or Allen, not even close. He will never be safe, consistent and 100% reliable but he gives you emotions and memories that you will never forget. His first game against Nets. First play off win. His games against the Bengals. And now with the Rams. Talk about a rollercoaster.

It’s hard to abandon a guy like that. Strong, stubborn, cocky and vulnerable at the same time.

Wherever he plays I wish him the best.

I think you need to take a step back and breathe.

Welp, that didn’t take long. How long will the “we should have kept Baker” go on?

It is nice for him that he performed.

It is absolutely and utterly meaningless as regards the Browns.

I'm impressed by watching a really good HC adjust his offensive & defensive schemes to the skill sets of the players he had on the field last night. How refreshing it was to watch a team that was missing all 3 starting WR's, the 10th different starting OL this year with only 1 OL player starting all 11 previous games, 1st and 2nd string QB's out, no DL Aaron Donald, OL Bobby Evans, OLB Terrell Lewis, CB Shaun Jolly, LB Travin Howard, RB Ronnie Rivers and CB David Long. Not to mention having to play practice squad players and not give an excuse for his team's woes. Instead, he adjusted his schemes and pulled out a last-minute victory. Stefanski can only dream of becoming half the coach McVay is today. It's so refreshing to watch a HC like McVay put on an exhibition of making in game adjustments on both sides of the ball after watching Stefanski week in and week out fail at the adjustment game.

Sigh. Like I said, it didn’t take long.

https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/M/MayfBa00.htm

Those are Baker’s raw numbers. Was he terrible while here? No. Was he great while here? No. Note that his yds per game dropped every year which I find odd.

Please, enough.

He. Doesn’t. Play. Here. Anymore.

Look who got a game ball:

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=baker+mayfiled+game+ball#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:a0d32dbc,vid:-EtzKR9TdTw

Huh...looks like a bad link...but there is a link...linky dinky do.

This is true - but then posters have been posting about him all season even though he left before the pre-season commenced, some initiating posts more than others because Baker was playing badly (terribly) for the Panthers and they wanted to pile on. There is still interest in how he performs - and as relates to player news, his move and his playing last night in exceptional circumstances for a new team with one practice session under his belt and he won the game for the Rams - doing something (orchestrating a game winning 4th Q drive) that many criticized him for not doing in a Browns Uni ... so I think it's pretty reasonable to expect a fair bit of discussion about our Ex-QB.

Add to that - for the Panthers BM was truly bad. Worst in the NFL - but played for a pretty dysfunctional team and a HC in Matt Rhule who was totally inept. As thers have already mentioned - it'll be interesting to see how BM performs for a very good head coach. We all know that even when BM played well for Cleveland he could be wildly inconsistent (other than the one stretch of games for the playoff run in 2020).... so no at all unreasonable for him and the Rams and Mcvay to be a point of interest and discussion the rest of the season. Many of the posters here have already predicted he would be a career back up after this season, or worse and out of the NFL altogether and a talking head for College or NFL games.

I am thrilled for Baker. It didn't work out here, but he gave us some good memories and he's not a bad fellow. I hope he does well out there. I would think most of us feel this way.

Everyone I know in "real life" feels that way...except for a handful of Buckeye fans...a couple of whom aren't even Browns fans.

One of my favorite Baker memories:


As a rookie, before the season started he was being interviewed. The interviewer says, tell us something you leaned in college that you think will help you as a pro. His reply? Don't run from the cops.

That's what many posters thought when you were gone. But alas.....

I guess you haven't seen all the Mahomes commercials? You're hilarious.

Who posted that? Did you read it on another message board somewhere?

Yep...as if anyone on this board has/had any clue what Baker was "more interested in"...it's comedy.

Yep, everyone has "moved on." LMAO

Especially you, right?

For the record, it was steve and some others who said over and over and over that everyone had moved on. I never once said it. Just more BS lies from that crew.