Baker speaking some truth

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@the-gipper said:

But Baker said directly that "we now have confidence in the people we have calling plays".....and it was Haley who was calling plays. So....at worst, it was directed at both Hue and Haley....but I see it more at Haley. So, sorry, you are wrong...at least partially.

We’ll never know how much it was one guys fault or the other, but I think we can all agree it was 100% necessary.

flyingfooldoug

@the-gipper said:

But Baker said directly that "we now have confidence in the people we have calling plays".....and it was Haley who was calling plays. So....at worst, it was directed at both Hue and Haley....but I see it more at Haley. So, sorry, you are wrong...at least partially.

Nope, the OC draws up the game plan he’s paid to draw up. The HC gotta sign off.

The Gipper

@flyingfooldoug said:

Nope, the OC draws up the game plan he’s paid to draw up. The HC gotta sign off.

Yea.....the OC draws up the game plan. The OC calls the plays, and the HC signs off. And these two arseburgers couldn't agree on fuck all how to do that, and they are both gone. And Baker's statement was aimed at the play caller...and that WAS Haley. And by inference it also included Hue in there.

Just accept that fact....and your life will go much easier.

blitzz2

Good for Baker, didn't sugar coat it as much as he could of. And as far as them both being gone, good. No point in arguing about the past when the future is upon us. More wins in the past 3 games then Hue had in 2 seasons lmao

bermeck08

Baker plays and conducts his business like he has a pair.

thats what I like the most !

bermeck (still savoring this beat down)

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Mayfield last 2 games:

7 TDs, 10 incomplete passes

domcucch1994

Baker catching alot of shit from the media and the talking heads..

Fuk them!

The Gipper

@domcucch1994 said:

Baker catching alot of shit from the media and the talking heads..

Fuk them!

I guess I have not heard any of that. For what? Being a competitor? Saying that I am not going to be friendly toward rivals in our division?

domcucch1994

@the-gipper said:

I guess I have not heard any of that. For what? Being a competitor? Saying that I am not going to be friendly toward rivals in our division?

Stephen A and Damien Woody were critical of Baker.

Shannon Sharpe and Mangini were also critical.

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Clearly none of them were in #6’s shoes so their opinion isn’t valid

Zombo

@domcucch1994 said:

Stephen A and Damien Woody were critical of Baker.

Shannon Sharpe and Mangini were also critical.

Well, Baker just doubled down and called Hue "fake" LOL!

Z

hoorta

@the-gipper said:

I guess I have not heard any of that. For what? Being a competitor? Saying that I am not going to be friendly toward rivals in our division?

@domcucch1994 said:

Stephen A and Damien Woody were critical of Baker.

Shannon Sharpe and Mangini were also critical.

I think the guys on this board know my opinion of Stephen A. We're supposed to be all palsy and good sports to a guy who guided the Browns to a 3-36-1 record? I wouldn't have been upset if Baker had repeated his Oklahoma- OSU act, and planted a Browns flag right in the middle of that Bengal B.

Still pissed Huey wimped out and didn't go for it against the Raiders. If you can't make 1\2 yard, you don't deserve to win.

domcucch1994

Zombo said:

Well, Baker just doubled down and called Hue "fake" LOL!

Z

Well damn..

Zombo

domcucch1994

Baker has that fire in him,

Just block out that outside noise and win!

hoorta

Try not to barf...

nickers

Stephen A A$$hole.... Need I say anything more?

Kvoethe

@domcucch1994 said:

Stephen A and Damien Woody were critical of Baker.

Shannon Sharpe and Mangini were also critical.

1000lbs of pounds of stupid..

Mark O

Fuck Steven Assclown and any of those other talking heads on tv who just sit there and shout and argue at each other. How dumb or bored do you need to be to watch that shit.

I'll take and respect this opinion from Peter King....a guy who has covered the NFL forever and is respected by teams in the league and trusted enough that last week the Saints gave him full access to their meetings and walk throughs the night before the game against Philly.

I like the way Gregg Williams thinks, at least this week. The Browns enter December with a pulse. They’re 1.5 games out of the sixth playoff seed. I cannot believe I just wrote that short paragraph. Is Sam Rutigliano the coach? Paul Brown? Blanton Collier? Before flying south to Cincinnati to try to break a seven-game losing streak, the Browns got a playoff primer from coach Gregg Williams. The interim coach told me he showed his players they were still in the race. “I showed them who was alive,” Williams said. “And we are. I also showed them the remaining teams on our schedule, and how five of the six were still alive. I wanted them to see we’re in it.” Actually, every team left—first the Bengals, and then Houston, Carolina, Denver, Cincinnati again and Baltimore—was alive. And still is. “But my big thing is: One day at a time. One practice at a time. One game at a time. One meeting at a time. And they’ve listened well. They stay in the moment.” Baker Mayfield was very good at that Sunday, leading the Browns to their biggest lead since mastodons roamed the earth, 28-0 late in the first half. It’s interesting watching Mayfield. He’s got a lot of Russell Wilson in him. When things are going great, he comes out with confidence, and you think he’s going to make a play. When he’s down big, he comes out with confidence, and you think he’s going to make a play. He’s not overly celebratory. He threw four touchdown passes Sunday, and he didn’t go batcrap after a single one of them. He’s happy, and he’ll high-five or hug his mates, but he doesn’t go whirlygigging around the field. It’s because Mayfield expected what just happened. He’s not particularly surprised. “I don’t want to put too much pressure on him,” Williams told me. “But I’ve had the luxury of being on teams with excellent quarterbacks, and I’ve gone against Hall of Fame quarterbacks in my 29 years coaching. And Baker has the innate leadership that shows me he belongs. Grown men can smell whether you belong. They know he does. In his mind, already, he can play the game at a slo-mo pace. I see the similarities to a young Drew Brees.” Gregg Williams is given to hyperbole. But watching Mayfield play for three months, I see he might be on to something here.

Baker Mayfield, quarterback, Cleveland. The first pick of the 2018 draft, in a 15-minute first-half span, threw touchdown passes of 13 yards (Antonio Callaway), six yards (David Njoku) and 14 yards (Nick Chubb, miraculously, pilfered off a DB’s back) to post the most shocking score of the first 12 weeks of the season: Cleveland 28, Cincinnati 0, at Paul Brown Stadium. For the day, in a 35-20 win, Mayfield completed 19 of 26 throws, with four touchdowns and no interceptions. Mayfield’s the real thing, if you have not been watching.

domcucch1994

This was an interesting comment I saw on cleveland.com

"The attitude and leadership of this kid - off the charts awesome.

Think back to when Antonio Brown kicked Spencer Lanning in the face - you think that would have gone unpunished (as it did) had Baker been leading that 2014 team?

How about Harrison's helmet-to-helmet hit on Colt McCoy in 2012? If that had been Baker taking that shot, what do you think would have happened?

Answer (in both cases): the bench would have cleared, and the Browns would have fought back.

They didn't have this fight, this energy, before...certainly not under Hue Jackson's leadership...but now they do. "