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  • @coachtoad said:

    You are right. They have been awesome! Great point! These guys are being led to the promsed land. We need more Mayfield magic.

    You act like your team needs you to. That is not being complacent. That is being an adult and a good teammate. 

    You are one feculent fool,  aren't you.  

    Yes, we DO need more Mayfield magic.  The kind that he has shown that he is capable of.  Not the guy that is making the bad mistakes.  

    And I guaranfuckingdamntee you that this team knows that they need him to be that guy.  

    Maybe in your coaching career you were blase about losing. But,  Again, please discontinue this whole transference thing you have going where you assign your own shortcomings and failures on to others. 

    Baker just hates to lose.   Savvy Ingles?

    @the-gipper said:

    You are one feculent fool,  aren't you.  

    Yes, we DO need more Mayfield magic.  The kind that he has shown that he is capable of.  Not the guy that is making the bad mistakes.  

    And I guaranfuckingdamntee you that this team knows that they need him to be that guy.  

    Maybe in your coaching career you were blase about losing. But,  Again, please discontinue this whole transference thing you have going where you assign your own shortcomings and failures on to others. 

    Baker just hates to lose.   Savvy Ingles?

    We all hate to lose. Your big words do not mean that you know how to lead arhletes. 1) I want the Browns to win. 2) I want Mayfield to be successful 3) i disagree with his recent behaviour and believe it is bad for the team. 

  • Who the fuck likes to lose? What a stupid argument to make... like Baker is some kind of oddity who hates to lose. 

  • Who the fuck likes to lose? What a stupid argument to make... like Baker is some kind of oddity who hates to lose. 

    @dutch-oven said:

    Who the fuck likes to lose? What a stupid argument to make... like Baker is some kind of oddity who hates to lose. 

    What can't be argued is that he can't seem to handle losing. His skin is paper-thin now. 

    Gipper is to busy with his thesaurus to inderstand that. He is setting his fantasy football lineup as we speak. He is all alone on an island. Wow.

  • @the-gipper said:

    If you cant' figure out the difference between complacency and team focused behaviour, then you don't know about leading athletes. You can't read that on a chart or stat sheet dude. You are really on an island on this. This is not fantasy football. This is about leadership.

    @coachtoad said:

    If you cant' figure out the difference between complacency and team focused behaviour, then you don't know about leading athletes. You can't read that on a chart or stat sheet dude. You are really on an island on this. This is not fantasy football. This is about leadership.

    It IS about leadership.    and yes, absolutely, this team needs to be more focused, and more disciplined.  But that has fuck all to do with what Baker did in an interview.  

    Hating to lose is one form or leadership (better than the alternate that you apparently advocate).  Like you said, you can't measure a player's heart on a chart or stat sheet.  Baker's heart and his desire to win are first rate. (he does not have a Grinch sized heart that you apparently want).    If he happens to show more passion and anger over losing....if he shows his emotions on his shirt sleeves, well, that is just his personality.   But, apparently you prefer that he be Ben Stein like.

  • @dutch-oven said:

    He could care less? Like if he really tried, he could care more? 

    Besides he probably had a Progressive photo shoot coming up and he was very nervous.    😆

    I've tried to look the other way on all of this "stuff" but it is getting hard(er) to do.

    Only an immediate winning streak will put these flames out.   Period.

    @mjp28 said:

    Besides he probably had a Progressive photo shoot coming up and he was very nervous.    😆

    I've tried to look the other way on all of this "stuff" but it is getting hard(er) to do.

    Only an immediate winning streak will put these flames out.   Period.

    Exactafucking mundo.   All it takes is a winning streak.  Play smarter, play better, execute properly.  What it does NOT take is a directive to "subdue your passion for the game and subdue your disdain for losing".  The exact same behavior would not even be an issue if they did not lose some of these games.

    So, instead of saying to Baker:  play and act robotically and unemotionally, tell him: eliminate the mistakes.....and have the coaches and the rest of the team help you there

  • @coachtoad said:

    You are right. They have been awesome! Great point! These guys are being led to the promsed land. We need more Mayfield magic.

    You act like your team needs you to. That is not being complacent. That is being an adult and a good teammate. 

    You are one feculent fool,  aren't you.  

    Yes, we DO need more Mayfield magic.  The kind that he has shown that he is capable of.  Not the guy that is making the bad mistakes.  

    And I guaranfuckingdamntee you that this team knows that they need him to be that guy.  

    Maybe in your coaching career you were blase about losing. But,  Again, please discontinue this whole transference thing you have going where you assign your own shortcomings and failures on to others. 

    Baker just hates to lose.   Savvy Ingles?

    @the-gipper said:

    You are one feculent fool,  aren't you.  

    Yes, we DO need more Mayfield magic.  The kind that he has shown that he is capable of.  Not the guy that is making the bad mistakes.  

    Baker just hates to lose.   Savvy Ingles?

    I hope it's not like the fist quarter magic like in New England and spotting the best team in football a 17-0 lead...... just sayin'.

    Si yo hablo un poco de Espanol......but I'm much better at Ingles.  ¿Si como no?  Eh?

  • @the-gipper said:

    You are one feculent fool,  aren't you.  

    Yes, we DO need more Mayfield magic.  The kind that he has shown that he is capable of.  Not the guy that is making the bad mistakes.  

    And I guaranfuckingdamntee you that this team knows that they need him to be that guy.  

    Maybe in your coaching career you were blase about losing. But,  Again, please discontinue this whole transference thing you have going where you assign your own shortcomings and failures on to others. 

    Baker just hates to lose.   Savvy Ingles?

    We all hate to lose. Your big words do not mean that you know how to lead arhletes. 1) I want the Browns to win. 2) I want Mayfield to be successful 3) i disagree with his recent behaviour and believe it is bad for the team. 

    @coachtoad said:

    We all hate to lose. Your big words do not mean that you know how to lead arhletes. 1) I want the Browns to win. 2) I want Mayfield to be successful 3) i disagree with his recent behaviour and believe it is bad for the team. 

    Well. the recent behavior that is bad for the team are the mistakes and the bad decisions that are made on the field.  Walking out of an interview because of continuing moronic questioning is NOT the behavior that is bad for the team. (and really? big words?  I don't know about that....but then, as a coach, you were apparently a jock.  I guess I just concentrated more on academics such that normal parlance to me would constitue "big words" to you)

  • @coachtoad said:

    If you cant' figure out the difference between complacency and team focused behaviour, then you don't know about leading athletes. You can't read that on a chart or stat sheet dude. You are really on an island on this. This is not fantasy football. This is about leadership.

    It IS about leadership.    and yes, absolutely, this team needs to be more focused, and more disciplined.  But that has fuck all to do with what Baker did in an interview.  

    Hating to lose is one form or leadership (better than the alternate that you apparently advocate).  Like you said, you can't measure a player's heart on a chart or stat sheet.  Baker's heart and his desire to win are first rate. (he does not have a Grinch sized heart that you apparently want).    If he happens to show more passion and anger over losing....if he shows his emotions on his shirt sleeves, well, that is just his personality.   But, apparently you prefer that he be Ben Stein like.

    @the-gipper said:

    It IS about leadership.    and yes, absolutely, this team needs to be more focused, and more disciplined.  But that has fuck all to do with what Baker did in an interview.  

    Hating to lose is one form or leadership (better than the alternate that you apparently advocate).  Like you said, you can't measure a player's heart on a chart or stat sheet.  Baker's heart and his desire to win are first rate. (he does not have a Grinch sized heart that you apparently want).    If he happens to show more passion and anger over losing....if he shows his emotions on his shirt sleeves, well, that is just his personality.   But, apparently you prefer that he be Ben Stein like.

    You don't have a clue what I am advocating. I will give you a hint couch fan. 1) demonstrate confidence and accountability 2) live in the film room 3) be the 1st in the facility and last out every day 4) never lose your cool with the media in public. Always demonstrate control 5) never show up your team in public 6) hold your team accountable 7) Act like a winner, talk winning, preach winning until you win. ? love your teammates unconditionally.

    To win you have to have a process that you execute. It is a result or consequence of circumstances that you create. It is not something that just happens.

  • Who the fuck likes to lose? What a stupid argument to make... like Baker is some kind of oddity who hates to lose. 

    @dutch-oven said:

    Who the fuck likes to lose? What a stupid argument to make... like Baker is some kind of oddity who hates to lose. 

    Of course he isn't, but as I said, he is being excoriated for not suppressing his particular passion about it. 

  • @mjp28 said:

    Besides he probably had a Progressive photo shoot coming up and he was very nervous.    😆

    I've tried to look the other way on all of this "stuff" but it is getting hard(er) to do.

    Only an immediate winning streak will put these flames out.   Period.

    Exactafucking mundo.   All it takes is a winning streak.  Play smarter, play better, execute properly.  What it does NOT take is a directive to "subdue your passion for the game and subdue your disdain for losing".  The exact same behavior would not even be an issue if they did not lose some of these games.

    So, instead of saying to Baker:  play and act robotically and unemotionally, tell him: eliminate the mistakes.....and have the coaches and the rest of the team help you there

    @the-gipper said:

    Exactafucking mundo.   All it takes is a winning streak.  Play smarter, play better, execute properly.  What it does NOT take is a directive to "subdue your passion for the game and subdue your disdain for losing".  The exact same behavior would not even be an issue if they did not lose some of these games.

    So, instead of saying to Baker:  play and act robotically and unemotionally, tell him: eliminate the mistakes.....and have the coaches and the rest of the team help you there

    Dude, read the post. He is saying Mayfield is acting like a bitch. It is true that a winning strwak will change perspectives. It is also true that his recent behavior will hurt the chances of that happening.

  • Who the fuck likes to lose? What a stupid argument to make... like Baker is some kind of oddity who hates to lose. 

    @dutch-oven said:

    Who the fuck likes to lose? What a stupid argument to make... like Baker is some kind of oddity who hates to lose. 

    Losing your virginity is cool. When the time is right and with the right person of course. And even if it’s not it makes for a better story down the road. 

  • @dutch-oven said:

    Who the fuck likes to lose? What a stupid argument to make... like Baker is some kind of oddity who hates to lose. 

    What can't be argued is that he can't seem to handle losing. His skin is paper-thin now. 

    Gipper is to busy with his thesaurus to inderstand that. He is setting his fantasy football lineup as we speak. He is all alone on an island. Wow.

    @coachtoad said:

    Gipper is to busy with his thesaurus to inderstand that. He is setting his fantasy football lineup as we speak. He is all alone on an island. Wow.

    A.  I don't need a thesaurus to write this way...it is just a function of education I guess.   Ask anyone here.  B. I have never played Fantasy Football.  I have no use for it.

  • @dutch-oven said:

    Who the fuck likes to lose? What a stupid argument to make... like Baker is some kind of oddity who hates to lose. 

    Of course he isn't, but as I said, he is being excoriated for not suppressing his particular passion about it. 

    @the-gipper said:

    Of course he isn't, but as I said, he is being excoriated for not suppressing his particular passion about it. 

    I don't think you are stupid. I think you are screwing around. You get the difference between passion and acting like a bitch right? How about he shows that passion in the film room

  • @dutch-oven said:

    Who the fuck likes to lose? What a stupid argument to make... like Baker is some kind of oddity who hates to lose. 

    Of course he isn't, but as I said, he is being excoriated for not suppressing his particular passion about it. 

    @the-gipper said:

    Of course he isn't, but as I said, he is being excoriated for not suppressing his particular passion about it. 

    Bullshit.

    He's getting called out for acting like a six year old who takes his ball home when he doesn't get his way. 

    He's exactly the type of person who constantly tells the world "I am who I am and I speak my mind and if you don't like what I have to say then too bad" who throws a tantrum when someone does the same in return. 

  • @the-gipper said:

    You are one feculent fool,  aren't you.  

    Yes, we DO need more Mayfield magic.  The kind that he has shown that he is capable of.  Not the guy that is making the bad mistakes.  

    Baker just hates to lose.   Savvy Ingles?

    I hope it's not like the fist quarter magic like in New England and spotting the best team in football a 17-0 lead...... just sayin'.

    Si yo hablo un poco de Espanol......but I'm much better at Ingles.  ¿Si como no?  Eh?

    @mjp28 said:

    I hope it's not like the fist quarter magic like in New England and spotting the best team in football a 17-0 lead...... just sayin'.

    No shit Sherlock. You act as if you haven't seen Baker display his winning nature as a QB. Of course, everyone knows he cannot continue making the egregious mistakes that he has made in that game, and others.  

    Si yo hablo un poco de Espanol......but I'm much better at Ingles.  ¿Si como no?  Eh?

    I don't know Spanish... I just know a few words, like maybe:  Si hable Ingles.

  • @coachtoad said:

    If you cant' figure out the difference between complacency and team focused behaviour, then you don't know about leading athletes. You can't read that on a chart or stat sheet dude. You are really on an island on this. This is not fantasy football. This is about leadership.

    It IS about leadership.    and yes, absolutely, this team needs to be more focused, and more disciplined.  But that has fuck all to do with what Baker did in an interview.  

    Hating to lose is one form or leadership (better than the alternate that you apparently advocate).  Like you said, you can't measure a player's heart on a chart or stat sheet.  Baker's heart and his desire to win are first rate. (he does not have a Grinch sized heart that you apparently want).    If he happens to show more passion and anger over losing....if he shows his emotions on his shirt sleeves, well, that is just his personality.   But, apparently you prefer that he be Ben Stein like.

    @the-gipper said:

    It IS about leadership.    and yes, absolutely, this team needs to be more focused, and more disciplined.  But that has fuck all to do with what Baker did in an interview.  

    Leadership? Patton had leadership but in 2018 Mayfield had it.  However in 2019 is searching for something.....he seems to have lost  it in 2019.

    Go figure?

    GO BROWNS, time for some Baker magic, quick.....or who's the backup QB again? Oh.

  • @coachtoad said:

    Gipper is to busy with his thesaurus to inderstand that. He is setting his fantasy football lineup as we speak. He is all alone on an island. Wow.

    A.  I don't need a thesaurus to write this way...it is just a function of education I guess.   Ask anyone here.  B. I have never played Fantasy Football.  I have no use for it.

    @the-gipper said:

    A.  I don't need a thesaurus to write this way...it is just a function of education I guess.   Ask anyone here.  B. I have never played Fantasy Football.  I have no use for it.

    No offense but you lack street smarts on this topic. You obviously don't understand how to lead athletes or how a locker room needs to be understood. A team is a family. When they are good they love each other like family. When the family leader acts like a bitch and panics, it hurts the family. You can't see that from a coach man.

  • from once being in a locker room.. I prefer taking a full look at the tone of this presser before Grossi speaks 

    With it being Wednesday, you'd expect questions towards the Denver game. And at the start ,there were & Baker responded fine to even Patriots questions.. I get Tony is a hometown native & all Cleveland all the time. Has a radio show on the flagship station. Sports Time Ohio TV show..But he's no longer with the Cleveland Plain Dealer..Tony writes for ESPN* Cleveland.. again, watch the 7 minute tone of the presser..Than at 7:20:: it is truly a dumb ass question from Grossi.. sure, bakes frustrated and Grossi got enough to print his side of the story      

  • @mjp28 said:

    I hope it's not like the fist quarter magic like in New England and spotting the best team in football a 17-0 lead...... just sayin'.

    No shit Sherlock. You act as if you haven't seen Baker display his winning nature as a QB. Of course, everyone knows he cannot continue making the egregious mistakes that he has made in that game, and others.  

    Si yo hablo un poco de Espanol......but I'm much better at Ingles.  ¿Si como no?  Eh?

    I don't know Spanish... I just know a few words, like maybe:  Si hable Ingles.

    @the-gipper said:

    No shit Sherlock. You act as if you haven't seen Baker display his winning nature as a QB. Of course, everyone knows he cannot continue making the egregious mistakes that he has made in that game, ......and others.  

    Yes...... and others!

    So you admit that Baker has ongoing issues that's a good start for identifying the root cause of his problems.

    And my name isn't Sherlock, Michael or mjp or mj will work just fine for me.   😉

  • @the-gipper said:

    It IS about leadership.    and yes, absolutely, this team needs to be more focused, and more disciplined.  But that has fuck all to do with what Baker did in an interview.  

    Hating to lose is one form or leadership (better than the alternate that you apparently advocate).  Like you said, you can't measure a player's heart on a chart or stat sheet.  Baker's heart and his desire to win are first rate. (he does not have a Grinch sized heart that you apparently want).    If he happens to show more passion and anger over losing....if he shows his emotions on his shirt sleeves, well, that is just his personality.   But, apparently you prefer that he be Ben Stein like.

    You don't have a clue what I am advocating. I will give you a hint couch fan. 1) demonstrate confidence and accountability 2) live in the film room 3) be the 1st in the facility and last out every day 4) never lose your cool with the media in public. Always demonstrate control 5) never show up your team in public 6) hold your team accountable 7) Act like a winner, talk winning, preach winning until you win. ? love your teammates unconditionally.

    To win you have to have a process that you execute. It is a result or consequence of circumstances that you create. It is not something that just happens.

    @coachtoad said:

    You don't have a clue what I am advocating. I will give you a hint couch fan. 1) demonstrate confidence and accountability 2) live in the film room 3) be the 1st in the facility and last out every day 4) never lose your cool with the media in public. Always demonstrate control 5) never show up your team in public 6) hold your team accountable 7) Act like a winner, talk winning, preach winning until you win. ? love your teammates unconditionally.

    To win you have to have a process that you execute. It is a result or consequence of circumstances that you create. It is not something that just happens.

    OK, so the great cliche machine speaks.  Fine, of course those are the things you and every other peewee league coach can and has advocated.  Except for the shit you just made up.  (like never losing your cool with the media....you made that one up for purposes of THIS conversation.  I doubt you ever coached a team that ever even had media coverage) . 

    And to my mind, Baker exhibits all that.  Being in Seattle, and only just paying attention to the Browns here in the last week, I doubt seriously that you have even him much at all.  What you don't apparently like is that he vociferously exhibits his disdain for losing.

    And, I guess, if you can't handle that, as I said to Dutch, that is YOUR problem.

    I will simply close by  giving you the response that Baker gave:

    Everybody wants to hear the truth until they actually get it.... I am who I am and always have been. Don’t call it emotional when it’s convenient and then passion when it fits. I care about winning, so yeah I’m frustrated. If I was to act like it’s okay to lose, then y’all would say that I’ve gotten complacent. My sense of urgency is at an all time high. And if I offend anybody along the way... that’s too bad.

    So...bottom line...as Baker said:  if you don't like ...too bad