There can be a lot of he-said vs she-said on the Baker/Browns issue, but the fact that his trade value was almost zero is the strongest indicator of who he is as a player and teammate. The idea of the Browns having no leverage is ridiculous. What leverage did the Texans have over teams in the Watson situation?
Mayfield is no longer a part of the Browns organization. Just for the clarification of the situation and points you continue to ignore, Mayfield was on PUP for his off-season surgery. Teams were not breaking down the Browns door for Mayfield for two main reasons: 1) Mayfield had a guaranteed contract of 18.9M that until July was a big gamble because there was no verifiable information available about his rehabilitation progress. 2) Because of the injury and the poor timing of the Browns, most teams had already made their decision on their QB needs in 2022. Add into a fact that Mayfield was in the final year of his contract. Any team securing Mayfield was getting him on a 1-year rental because reality says giving him a new deal after an injury filled season with no guarantee that he was even going to be able to play in 2022 is a risk most teams refused to make with Mayfield or any QB in that situation. It is the exact reason why Jimmy G is still sitting in limbo with SFO.
You have acute Baker syndrome and it shows in every one of your posts. You have been on a 4-year crusade to part with Mayfield and you finally received your wish. For a person who claims to be the self anointed expert of football on this forum, you lack the critical ability to consider the player intangibles in any of your posts. The upstanding Browns Fan you claim to be, you cannot take the high road and allow the player to leave with dignity without getting in a few vicious kicks to the dog as you help push him out the door. Yet you worship a player coming to the Browns that did the exact same thing in demanding a trade except Watson left his teammates, team and fans hanging in despair for an entire season. Mayfield, like every other QB in the NFL, definitely has some items he needs to work on to become the QB he has the ability to become but not in your bias eyes. No matter how much you scream victory for the move, your continued bashing along with the FO childish comments after the trade highlights the fact this has nothing to do with Mayfield's play as much as a personal hatred of the person.
So, my friend, keep posting your wildly out of context blasts at the departed Mayfield and keep exhibiting your bias hatred toward the player which more and more Browns fans are recognizing with your every post. Meanwhile, the rest of us will be waiting for your posts defending Watson's actions and if he plays at all in 2022, your preconceived notion that when Watson has a bad game (which he will), the individuals you can blame for making your chosen one look bad on the field. His off the field issues are all his own doing unless you're going to blame that on Mayfield too! I mean after all, if Mayfield was personally responsible for everything that went bad with the Browns in 2021 as you continue to state and single handedly prevented the Browns from winning the Super Bowl in 2021 - he surely had the foresight to project the Watson trade and recruited the women to make false claims against Watson - LOL!
