Deja Entendu wrote: ↑Mon Jan 22, 2024 10:29 am
Doctor wrote: ↑Mon Jan 22, 2024 10:01 am
I also think Baker is a baller in the classic sense. As in, he wants to play, he wants to ball out, and he wants to win... more than anything. Including money.
When he says he wants Mike back I fully believe he means it in a "put your money where your mouth is" sort of way.
When asked about Evans and him coming back he made a comment about understanding everyone having to make sacrifices to win. We shall see…
Baker Hater activated: He really means that "Mike better realize he's old and take less so I can get mine" is what he really meant.
Normal fan: That's awesome that Baker realizes he'll need to take less to not only keep the core intact, but add pieces as well.
This would be sooooo much easier if Baker was a douche/bad teammate/locker room cancer, but, by all accounts, he is amazing in the locker room and to his teammates. I don't like Baker the QB, but baker the dude seems to be exactly who I/you/the team/the city, etc. needs.
However, Baker the QB is, based on his history, likely to turn in a turd of a season in 2024:
https://www.espn.com/nfl/player/stats/_ ... r-mayfield.
He's never put together back to back good QB seasons in six years. I don't think that changes.
What do I want? A savior.
What are we going to get? Baker Mayfield. And I completely understand why. We were supposed to win negative 3 games this year. We didn't. We won, HE (Baker) was a big reason for that, and in the playoff games, he was good. Sure, that last pass was like seeing your baby muva blowing your worst enemy, but that's kinda to be expected with him.
Look, I completely get why Baker and Bowles will be back NEXT YEAR. they did, indeed, earn it. My biggest issue is that Baker will probably get rewarded for what he did, not what he's going to do.
Was Baker better than I anticipated he'd be this season. Yeah, only by about eleventy billion percent. Kudos to that dude for proving the haters (ME) wrong.
If I'm Licht, I tag him based upon that link above. Don't give me the, "If we tag him, we can't sign Player X, Y, and Z. YES WE CAN, no issues whatsoever. I don't mind having Baker be the QB of this team next year because, again, he earned it. I just don't want to be the dude saying, "that's why you don't guarantee him multiple years" this time next year when we go 5-12 and he's close to a 1:1 TO:TD margin. That link above gives me all this history I need to not sign him to more than one year.
And if I'm wrong again, and he has another good year next season, pay him 50M/year that he, at that point, will have earned...just don't do it now when he had one good season.
I guess that's my Mea Culpa to him....I was wrong this season. We and he didn't suck at all, actually, when I thought he, and we, would remake a Karrine Steffans movie (google it...but not at work).