Baker Mayfield is dismissing the death threats his wife brought up earlier this week on her Instagram story.
The Cleveland Browns quarterback addressed recent claims by his wife Emily they’ve received deaths threats where she defended her husband following the Browns loss to the Packers on Saturday.
“The death threats, lies being told about my husband and blatant disrespect never ceases to amaze me,” Emily wrote.
Baker, however, brushed it off while speaking to reporters on Thursday.
“It’s hard for me to say not to listen to it because, you know, I have quite a bit of experience with a lot of opinions on the outside coming in. It’s hard when it comes down to somebody that you love, that you care about.
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She’s not able to change some of the outcomes of the games, or any at all should I say. It’s just one of those things, you know, we’re in a world, in a society today there’s a lot of keyboard warriors that make empty threats and things like that, which it’s quite honestly ignorant when they go after people who aren’t directly involved in football. When you talk about taking your own life, killing somebody and all that, to me that’s ignorance. I try not to listen to it because those aren’t the people I’d listen to if it was good or bad, regardless,” Mayfield said.
He said he’ll continue to listen to those close to him because those are the opinions that matter.
“It’s tough to tell your family and your loved ones not to defend you and look into that stuff, it’s just human nature,” Mayfield said.
Cleveland fans are known to be harsh on athletes as Guardians pitcher Nick Wittgren’s family received death threats following a loss to the Rays in July.
