Baker is the biggest problem with the offense right now. Let’s face it, this team will go as far as Mayfield will take them.
He needs to get his accuracy back. Nothing else matters until that’s fixed.
This. But I'm not letting Kitchens off the hook. I'm NOT blaming Freddie for Mayfied's struggles BTW. It's on Mayfield.
I am blaming Freddie though for continuing to run the offense around Baker, when he's playing at a really low caliber right now. And the line is pretty bad.
We should be playing through Chudd, and using Baker more off play action. We're utilizing Baker like he's a Tom Brady or something, and he's not even playing as a good QB right now, let alone someone like that.
I think we need to make things much more simple for Baker. Have the offense run through Chubb. This is not a great offense, surprise to all of us, but its not.
And that's mostly because the QB is struggling pretty bad. So start playing to the strength of the offense, and that's clearly Chubb right now. And utilizing Baker off play action more.
If we're going to continue to do the opposite, we are going to bottom out IMO. Baker might eventually be a good QB, but right now, he's not.
Not giving up him by any means. But he's regressed this season.