Colin Cowherd: “I don’t have a strong Baker take, I wish him well, I don’t root against professional athletes. Russell Westbrook drives me crazy, Baker Mayfield drove me crazy, but he’s a nice kid, he’s married, three more Rams game are on primetime TV— he’ll probably make the Rams a little more compelling. Everybody loves a comeback story so he’ll find a few people to grab onto him but… Offensive coaches like to resurrect people. Andy Reid resurrected Michael Vick’s career, Sean Payton loved Taysom Hill, Sean McVay saved Jared Goff’s career [after Jeff Fisher], Josh McDaniels— everybody told him ‘DON’T DRAFT TEBOW.’ Offensive coaches love to find young quarterbacks and prove all their doubters wrong. I think it’s too little and too late for Baker Mayfield. Yes, I was right, I didn’t think it was a strong take although I got tons of pushback for saying ‘kind of a short guy with an average arm who’s cocky probably won’t be worth a number one pick.’ I also said I thought his immaturity would be his downfall; he sometimes was snarky and not very likeable. I thought he would be a fairly accurate distributor of the football, but his accuracy was always underwhelming and got significantly worse as his offensive lines got a little worse. The Rams o-line is just not very good, and the team and offensive personnel or what’s left of it is just not very good. I don’t have any strong or anti-Baker Mayfield take, I wish him well, his career is sort of what I thought it would be.” (Full Segment Above)
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