Baker Mayfield and overreaction are par for the course

Baker Mayfield: Stats don’t lie

Stability and consistency matter at the quarterback position and Baker Mayfield has certainly brought that to the table.

Look I get it that his game last Sunday was pathetic, but he himself knows that and has taken accountability for that. Will things turn around drastically this week? I doubt that but you have a player who is all in with his team and the players all acknowledge that as well.

To share how rare of a game that was for Mayfield, that 45 percent completion rate he dished out last Sunday hasn’t reared its ugly head since the last game of the 2019 season when the Browns lost to the listless Cincinnati Bengals and Mayfield had 44 percent completion rate.

Before that, it was also in 2019 on that Sunday Night Game out in San Francisco when Mayfield threw a measly 36 percent completions and the Browns were buried 31-3 in a loss. It happens.

But again to see all the reports talking about Mayfield regressing and trying to support that by film study too is just overboard. The guy had a bad game. End of story.

I’m not here to say Mayfield doesn’t have many flaws, but I’m also not saying either that I’m settling for a less-than-perfect quarterback. There’s no such thing and Browns fans and those media outlets that follow the Browns need to do a better job of supporting their quarterback.

We can battle it out and counter each other’s points by studying the film or analyzing the data, but in the end, you have a quarterback named Mayfield that literally is rewriting the Browns history books.

To ignore that, and instead scrutinize one game by making it seem like Mayfield’s issues are bigger than they really is sad. Stop the overreactions and let’s go Browns.