Baker Mayfield: Fire The Cannons

[Vee-Rex]

His pocket presence was markedly improved this week. Reminiscent of last year. Seems he made the conscious decision to trust his OL and it paid off in spades.

Exactly. He was stepping up in the pocket sooooo much more today than the previous 3 games.

 

[chrisrich91]

4:50

Question was along the lines of: Freddie was hard on himself for the play calling last week, did you notice a difference today?

Baker: No. I just played better. Anytime your QB sucks it’s probably pretty hard to call plays.

Stud.

 

[AZ_]

4:50

Question was along the lines of: Freddie was hard on himself for the play calling last week, did you notice a difference today?

Baker: No. I just played better. Anytime your QB sucks it’s probably pretty hard to call plays.

Stud.

Hahahahahahahahahaha

 

[Phil Mixtape]

Hahahahahahahahahaha

Big win in so many ways. Say what you want about him, Bake owns up to everything. Great to see such honesty and accountability . . .

 

[CleveRocks]

The plays were getting in quicker, and Baker was willing to throw the underneath patterns.

data?

 

[BlessEm]

Bake in the background of Chubbs 88yd run. Oh lord lol.

 

[AZ_]

Clearly excited about installing that new system this week.

 

[Mr. Orange]

4:50

Question was along the lines of: Freddie was hard on himself for the play calling last week, did you notice a difference today?

Baker: No. I just played better. Anytime your QB sucks it’s probably pretty hard to call plays.

Stud.

This actually goes a long way in vindicating a lot of the folks who were criticizing him for the first three games. Even he admits he was shit.

 

[AZ_]

This actually goes a long way in vindicating a lot of the folks who were criticizing him for the first three games. Even he admits he was shit.

It was never genuinely in doubt. Baker has been saying this for three weeks, it’s not new.

Nobody genuinely disagreed with that, other than a a few trolls who weren’t able to cope with their off-season of taking victory laps over the “haters.”

Making up excuses out of thin air, it was silly season.

 

[Jack Brickman]

This actually goes a long way in vindicating a lot of the folks who were criticizing him for the first three games. Even he admits he was shit.

I definitely think there was some questionable playcalling the first three weeks. Too many long-developing plays, and that series where we didn't even try to run it once at the goal line was baffling considering who our RB is.

But I also wouldn't expect Baker to call out the head coach like that in a presser. Leaders don't throw others under the bus.

At any rate, I think the massive improvement this week was a combination of better playcalling and better QB play. They go hand in hand.

 

[Ohio]

This actually goes a long way in vindicating a lot of the folks who were criticizing him for the first three games. Even he admits he was shit.

It's really no different than Freddie taking all the blame last week and none of the credit this week.

These comments represent a strong locker room/culture, with guys holding themselves accountable instead of pointing fingers.

Both Kitchens and Baker needed to be much better. And they were.

I think today was just a taste of things to come. We are still without Higgins, Callaway, Njoku and Hunt.

Next step is figuring out the red zone struggles.

 

[Ohio]

At any rate, I think the massive improvement this week was a combination of better playcalling and better QB play. They go hand in hand.

Undoubtedly.

 

[Lee]

4:50

Question was along the lines of: Freddie was hard on himself for the play calling last week, did you notice a difference today?

Baker: No. I just played better. Anytime your QB sucks it’s probably pretty hard to call plays.

Stud.

Most agree the 4th and 9 run was an audible. I think part of the trust from Baker is because Freddie took the blame although it was probably Baker's fault. Because Freddie isnt like that, we will never know who actually called the play.

 

[Lee]

data?

Just noticing they were getting to the line with over 10 seconds and before it was always about 6 seconds left. Just was obvious they worked on that together.

 

[Lee]

It's really no different than Freddie taking all the blame last week and none of the credit this week.

These comments represent a strong locker room/culture, with guys holding themselves accountable instead of pointing fingers.

Both Kitchens and Baker needed to be much better. And they were.

I think today was just a taste of things to come. We are still without Higgins, Callaway, Njoku and Hunt.

Next step is figuring out the red zone struggles.

We dont have any tall recievers to throw too, Njoku is 6'6 with leaping ability, his absence really hurts in the redzone. Higgins is 6'2, so that will help when he is back.