- Mayfield is playing injured but he's still the best chance we have at the position to win.
- Mayfield holds the ball too long because 1. He's slow going through progressions (always has been a first read quarterback), and 2. He's afraid to throw picks so he can't pull the trigger easily on a tight window throw.
- Hudson needed tight end help and for whatever reason Stefanski refused to give it to him. Inexplicable IMO.
- Chubb has been playing injured for a while now (my opinion, but based on noticing that he hasn't been breaking tackles as much over the second half, roughly, of this season as he usually does). When Hunt's available to spell him it's not as noticeable, but it's there.
I won't believe that Stefanski would intentionally set Mayfield up to fail, much less the whole team. Unless the whole team was "in on it" he would lose all credibility with the players if he did such a thing. Even if they don't like Baker, they wouldn't appreciate putting their health and careers on the line in an intentionally losing cause to make some point to a guy they don't even like anyway.