Colin Cowherd was intrigued by a quote Buccaneers quarterback Baker Mayfield gave last week at training camp, and he said he wasn’t going to add to his already well documented list of reasons why he’s not a Mayfield fan.
“I was very right on Baker Mayfield,” Cowherd said Friday on The Herd. “And so I’m always reticent to go back and bang on Baker because I won and there’s no reason to pile on.”
Mayfield spoke about living up to expectations filling the void left by Tom Brady’s retirement, and he commented that he’s doing it his own way and that’s why he has a love or hate relationship with fans.
Cowherd said that Jalen Hurts in Philadelphia and Lamar Jackson in Baltimore do things their own way as well, but they’re more liked by their respective fanbases and football fans in general. While he feels like Mayfield is unlikeable, to say that people hate him is just not true.
“America has always celebrated unique. We’re fascinated by it. You are, I am,” Cowherd said. “Nobody hates Baker. I don’t hate Baker. I’m disappointed. And what he did is a cautionary tale.”
Cowherd added that ultimately Baker failed in Cleveland despite having the tools around him to be successful. He felt like Mayfield couldn’t get out of his own way.
“Baker was too busy calling out the medical staff, distracted by a dozen commercials – albeit funny ones. Not getting along with OBJ, all in the sake of appealing to his worst sensibilities – ego,” Cowherd said.
Colin Cowherd’s criticisms of Baker Mayfield stretch back to before the Browns took the quarterback with the first pick of the 2018 NFL Draft. The two have sparred verbally on Cowherd’s FOX Sports Radio show and on Twitter. The host has been critical of Mayfield for everything from his attitude to the number of commercials he is in to his belief in UFOs.
