Baker Mayfield is not one to take criticism well.
On Monday, Rex Ryan was feeling some type of way about Baker Mayfield having so much talent around him and not getting down, so he stated that the Cleveland Browns QB was “overrated as hell.”
“I don’t get it,” Ryan said. “I’d love to be an offensive coordinator here. I have Odell Beckham, Jarvis Landry, Nick Chubb and there’s Baker Mayfield. Yeah, I know he’s overrated as hell. . . . Look, I bought into the dang hype. I’m like, ‘Oh, yeah!’ But not to the point where everyone’s saying he’s going to be the league MVP. . . . Here’s a guy right now that’s a one-read guy, and then he’s going to improvise. He’s gotta realize that you are one of the slowest guys on that field when you take off with it. The ball’s not coming out in rhythm. He’s staring down guys, and you’re not that accurate down the field.”
Baker was asked about those comments on Wednesday and he basically pointed to Rex not having a job in the league right now to dismiss his opinion.
“Whatever,” Mayfield said Wednesday, via video from Mary Kay Cabot of cleveland.com. “I mean, in the wise words of Freddie Kitchens, if you don’t wear orange and brown, you don’t matter, and Rex Ryan doesn’t have any colors right now for a reason. So it’s OK.”
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Mayfield’s 70.3 passer rating ranks 40th in the NFL, which is terrible considering the fact that there are only 32 teams in the league.
