Keeping Baker is a no brainer at this point. First, the franchise QB's mentioned in these posts would never consider coming to Cleveland due to the head coach and scheme that he runs. Rodgers, Wilson, or Watson are not going to leave their current situation to come to a team where their main duty is to hand off the ball 60% of the time. None of the 3 are going to accept throwing 20 passes a game while watching the defense surrender 30 plus points! These QB's depend on rhythm and timing and you don't establish that throwing the ball for 200 yds with 20 passes spread sporadically throughout the game. Your receivers are not involved, timing is a joke, and not having a go to guy just solidifies none of them coming here. The vast majority of the teams in the NFL use the pass to set up the run. Cleveland is just the opposite. Those franchise QB's not only make opposing offenses play straight up, they burn them when they don't. If you try to play 6 DB's against them they will punish you with the run. If you try to play single safety they will punish you with crossing routes and the long ball. These guys would never consider coming to Cleveland with the scheme the Browns currently run.
Now Minnesota runs a similar type offense and they win games but not championships. The Browns are going to win games but the issue is becoming more prevalent each week - stack the box to stop the run and force the Browns to beat you through the air. In Baker, the Browns have developed a pretty good game manager who completes a lot of passes that really are nothing more than an extension of the run game (dink and dunks). Baker is currently a shell of the player the Browns drafted because he's become a game manager instead of the gunslinger they drafted. The biggest problem I see is two-fold - first, if your not practicing a pass centric offense and fierce 2-minute drill then you are unprepared to turn it on when needed and two, the inability of Stefanski to make game time adjustments depending on what the other team is doing to you. However, if your not practicing the adjustments, then there's nothing to adjust too.
Baker will be fine when Stefanski learns how to coach a complete team. Look, when your defense surrenders 21 points in the first quarter and your offense comes out and has a 3 and out with 2 runs and a dink pass you are a very unprepared team. You have to be able to adjust your team to the situation facing you and that doesn't mean sticking to a game plan where the opponent has practiced all week to stop.
The Browns need an offensive coordinator to run the offense and get Stefanski back to managing the team in the Head Coach capacity. The change needed here is the scheme and until that happens the Browns will continue to have those stinker games like they did against the Pats. They've given away 4 games so far and laid a stinker in another for 5 losses that shouldn't have been but unless there's a change, expect more of the same the rest of the year and beyond.
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