I'm not lowering the curtain on Baker Mayfield, either. There's too much chaos around him at all levels and you still see glimpses of what is attractive about him.
I mean I listened to an interview with Bob Wylie the other day talk about how shocked he was Freddie Kitchens got the job. He said that Ken Zampese had done all the coaching of Baker Mayfield, and in his opinion Freddie got hired because John Dorsey didn't want a personality that would actually stand up to him like Gregg Williams.
Let Odell Beckham & Jarvis Landry reverberate off one another and then give Mayfield the worst offensive tackles outside of Miami, and this is the result.
Everything is punch and counter-punch. They call it a sophomore slump for a reason. If you're tempted to say that defenses "figured out" Baker Mayfield, you probably didn't like him that much in the first place. Sort of like the people who claimed offensive lines had "figured out" Jason Taylor in 1999 probably always harbored doubts about that skinny 6'6" basketball looking guy in the first place.
Where Mayfield goes from here is going to be interesting, and it will define him. I think he'll tend to do a lot better if they focus resources on the line and then give him a lower pedigree (but speedy) receivers unit.