Cleveland Browns: Baker Mayfield vs Colin Cowherd is just amazing
By Randy Gurzi
The feud between Cleveland Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield and media personality Colin Cowherd is exactly the kind of fun this franchise needed
Admittedly, the feud between Cleveland Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield and Fox Sport’s Colin Cowherd does little to dispel the notion that Mayfield is a hot head and needs to mature.
It’s also true that this is exactly what this team needed.
Mayfield isn’t afraid to speak his mind and he did just that recently when he was a guest on Cowherd’s show. When the sports pundit called Mayfield out for not celebrating with his teammates during an Oklahoma game, Mayfield snapped back and called the media personality out for cherry-picking clips to make a point and ignoring the countless others that prove the point null and void.
Some are saying it showed Mayfield’s immaturity to play into Cowherd’s game — because let’s be honest, this is what Cowherd does, he gets under people’s skin and gets his ratings. Others like it because Cowherd is polarizing and Mayfield let him have it.
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For the Browns though, it should be looked at as a positive. Mayfield wasn’t out there giving the overly safe speech and politically correct answer. He was instead raw, real and confident in himself as a leader and teammate. And he wasn’t letting Cowherd take that away from him.
In other words, he stood his ground and stated his convictions. That’s the definition of a leader, and it’s exactly who the Browns need in the future as the face of their franchise.
Mayfield will never be the kind of guy who comes out and says the perfect thing all the time like a Russell Wilson or Peyton Manning. He’s more along the lines of an Aaron Rodgers or Cam Newton. He won’t mind letting a reporter know when to R-E-L-A-X like A-Rod has and it wouldn’t be shocking if he walked off a press conference like Newton following a tough loss.
The young star is going to face criticism and he’s going to get praise. The important thing is he has to be himself and all Browns fans get to sit back and watch the awesomeness take place.
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And that exchange between the rookie and Cowherd was awesome.