Cleveland Browns: Mike Silver bad mouths Baker Mayfield

Mike Silver has often used his platform on the NFL Network to champion his friend, and former Cleveland Browns coach Hue Jackson and he did it again by bad mouthing Baker Mayfield

Some people just don’t know when to quit. Mike Silver of the NFL Network is friends with former Cleveland Browns head coach Hue Jackson, which is perfectly fine. What isn’t fine is the way he’s allowed that friendship to make him jaded to the point he can no longer be objective about anything regarding the team that fired his friend.

Silver has had several instances of acting out against the club like when he wouldn’t admit the Browns were a team with a good head coaching vacancy before they fired Hue. He’s also used Twitter to attack the fans in Cleveland and on Wednesday he turned his attention to Baker Mayfield.

With everyone else looking at the talent added to the team — the Browns picked up Odell Beckham, Jr. and Sheldon Richardson on Tuesday — Silver was taking shots at the team that hurt his friend’s feelings and saying Mayfield needs to grow up.

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"“I would argue that the quarterback needs to grow up and that somebody in the organization needs to tell him what it is to be a professional, so I’ll just put that out there.” — Silver said via Michael David Smith of Pro Football Talk"

This was greeted with some hilarity as Rich Eisen quickly got up and started “looking” for Hue Jackson as he openly mocked Silver for his anti-Browns approach.

As for the comment, Silver is surely still bitter about how Mayfield treated Jackson once the two were rivals. Shortly after his firing, Jackson went to the Cincinnati Bengals where he faced the Browns twice last season. In the first meeting, Mayfield made headlines as he refused to hug Jackson post-game. He made more when he called the former head coach ‘fake’ in a press conference.

While Mayfield’s treatment of Jackson wasn’t the norm when a player sees an old coach, it was understandable. Hue held Mayfield back at every turn. He refused to let him compete for a starting job, wouldn’t even let him practice with the first team, and even gave him some phony speech about ‘winning’ the second-string job on ‘Hard Knocks’.

Jackson then went on to bash the team in a media tour following his firing and joined a rival with the main goal of giving up some insider information in hopes of pinning two more losses on the team he ran into the ground.

Looking at all that, and then hearing Silver’s comments, it may be time for someone to tell him to grow up. Silver continues to act immature about the way Jackson was ‘treated’ but glosses over how he treats everyone else. He also is ignoring the fact that the Browns were 3-36-1 in two and a half seasons with Jackson and 5-3 without him.

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Things are looking up in Cleveland and a huge reason for that is the fact that Hue Jackson is no longer driving the bus. If Mike Silver can’t see that then he just needs to simply quit talking about the team and the players at all.

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