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Steve Smith blasts Baker Mayfield: ‘He’s been holding this team back’
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Final season’s Baker Mayfield and his emotional plea to the Browns on Wednesday had one factor in widespread: neither performed properly.
After Mayfield professed his dedication to Cleveland amid their robust curiosity in touchdown Houston’s Deshaun Watson, a number of individuals across the league took problem with Baker’s extracurricular journaling when his manufacturing on the sphere has been lower than charming.
Cleveland Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield (6) warms up earlier than an NFL soccer recreation in opposition to the Pittsburgh Steelers, Monday, Jan. 3, 2022, in Pittsburgh. Browns common supervisor Andrew Berry stated Tuesday, Jan. 11 the crew expects Mayfield to return as its starter subsequent season and rebound after an injury-filled 2021 that raised questions on his future with Cleveland.
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NFL Community’s silver-tongued pundit, Steve Smith, went off on Mayfield: calling out the QB for his newfound vulnerability.
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“I discover it attention-grabbing that Baker now could be emotional. He wears his feelings on his sleeve. I do too. I used to be an emotional participant,” Smith stated.
The previous Panthers and Ravens wideout then delved into the distinction between being an emphatic participant on the sphere versus an emotional performer on his method out of city.
FOXBOROUGH, MASSACHUSETTS – NOVEMBER 14: Baker Mayfield #6 of the Cleveland Browns reacts from the sideline throughout the third quarter in opposition to the New England Patriots at Gillette Stadium on November 14, 2021 in Foxborough, Massachusetts.
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“The distinction between Baker and I is I gained a triple crown,” the retired receiver acknowledged.
“I led the league in one thing moreover crying. Then additionally on the finish of the day, OBJ left to win a championship. You retain bringing in all these gamers which can be supposed to assist and what do they do once they go there? Their careers and their numbers decline.”
Whether or not it was out of desperation or not, Mayfield’s plea appeared to work after Cleveland introduced on Thursday that they had been out of the working to commerce for Watson.
Mayfield adopted that information up by asserting his intention to get traded out of Cleveland.
Cleveland Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield (6) and cornerback A.J. Inexperienced (38) head to the bench after a collection in opposition to the Baltimore Ravens throughout the second half of an NFL soccer recreation, Sunday, Nov. 28, 2021, in Baltimore.
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The Browns’ entrance workplace is on a mission to commerce Mayfield to potential suitors in want of a long-term choice at QB, together with the Indianapolis Colts, Atlanta Falcons, Tennessee Titans, and others.
Smith additionally chimed in on Mayfield’s true worth on the place.
“[Mayfield’s] not a inventory that I might quick, he’s not a inventory I might place any places on … on the finish of the day, name me Captain Petty. Get him outta there and let the Browns go forward and eat as a result of he’s been holding this crew again.”