Is Baker Mayfield the quarterback of the future in Cleveland?

Is Baker Mayfield the Cleveland Browns future?

I hate even thinking of this being  reality after everything Baker Mayfield has meant to this fan base, but this is now a conversation that needs to happen. Has Baker Mayfield played well enough to continue to be the starter for the Cleveland Browns?

Most fans would stop reading because they lack the ability to look at his poor play and think maybe somebody other than Baker should come in and try making a difference for this offense.  Yes, Baker Mayfield is a polarizing figure in the NFL, the city of Cleveland, on the Cleveland Browns team and especially to the Cleveland Browns fan base, but right now he is not playing like a starting quarterback in the NFL needs to play in order to keep his team in games in order to win.

“But they’re 4-2 Steve! What more do you want?!”

What Baker Mayfield needs to stop doing is missing wide open receivers, over-throwing easy passes for an athlete at this level, and please stop not seeing the defender that is looking to jump the route and pick him off.  The last two weeks Mayfield has thrown this interception and this week ended up being a dagger for this team in a pick six.

As a Cleveland fan, it has been an amazing feeling seeing my favorite team be 4-1 for the first time since 1994. The only pressing matter in this stat is that Baker Mayfield has not kept this team in games and has folded when needed most.

A lot of Browns fans from the Tim Couch era have started speaking out about how they all loved Couch and how he was a good quarterback but had a bad line. That absolutely might be the case, however, numbers don’t lie.

Tim Couch through his first 35 games, threw for 36 touchdowns and 40 interceptions.  Baker Mayfield through his first 35 games has thrown for 58 touchdowns and 39 interceptions. So, is Tim Couch actually better? Yes, this is a very macro level way of looking at it, however, the numbers still don’t make me want Tim Couch over Baker Mayfield by any means.

Any true football fan can see that the case to bench Baker has been made by nobody else outside of Baker . If he was injured so bad that it hampered his play then the coaching staff should not have played him, simple as that.

No more excuses, if this time is going to win and try and make a playoff run, ever, then Baker Mayfield needs to find the rookie year version of himself and get it done.