Baker Mayfield gets paid
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Baker Mayfield’s deal with the Buccaneers:<br><br>2024: $30 million <br>2025: $30 million, including $20 million guaranteed<br>2026: $40 million<br><br>$5 million per year in incentives <br><br>$100 million total, with incentives a max value of $115 million. <a href="https://t.co/EiPSqo9huE">https://t.co/EiPSqo9huE</a></p>— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) <a href="https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/1766934109207531952?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 10, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
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Why do people keep paying mediocre QBs? Just baffling to me. You ain't winning shit with Baker Mayfield. He's just good enough that he's going to hurt your draft stock so you continue the cycle of mediocrity.
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I'd rather have Chris Jones.
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He sucks. Tulsa sport radio stations going to jerk off about this.
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Seems like a pretty good deal for both sides.
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Smart deal, for both Baker and TB. Look forward to seeing him in the NFCCG in 2024.
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I’ll never like booker but he earned another shot. Remember Daniel jones got 40mm/year lololol
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Yah, that contract was loony tunes. But there's a lot of QBs getting paid $40 million AAV that don't deserve it. And Baker is better than more than a few of them. Derek Carr is getting $37 million/yr, and Baker outplayed him last year. Dak is getting $40 mill Deshaun Watson is getting $46 mill/yr, and Baker has been outplaying him for a while now. Kyler is getting $46 million/yr, and Baker has always been a better QB than Kyler. Russell Wilson. And Tua is supposedly going to get $50 million/yr, and Baker is a far better QB. |
So ****ing stupid. No wonder we keep dominating. Teams are dumb.
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Good for him.
He has seemed less douchey as of late. Glad I’m not a Bucs fan though. |
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Baker has more playoff wins than Deshaun Watson, Kirk Cousins, Trevor Lawrence, Dainiel Jones, and Geno Smith. He is tied with Jalen Hurts, Dak Prescott, and Lamar Jackson. I think he is better then average and that’s the cost for better then average. He might even be a top 10 QB after this year. Playing hurt in Cleveland really changed his trajectory.
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Baker is, arguably, a top-12 QB in the league. Certainly top-15. His contract AAV ranks 15th before Cousins signs and whatever you want to do with the Russell Wilson shit. I'd say it's pretty much on the money.
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And it's hard to convince fans to be faithful if you basically tell them you're just gonna suck for 2-5 years but after all of that we'll get our guy and it'll be all worth it. |
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Baker deserves a shitload of credit for getting back on the horse and battling himself back to relevance after the Browns did him dirty. He is, at worst, an average NFL quarterback and this is what they cost. And unlike most average NFL quarterbacks, there miiiiiiight be a little more upside there into being actually good. |
Better than bad does not equal good
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:LOL: You auditioning for fortune cookie writer or something? |
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The question really isn't "Can he go toe-to-toe against Mahomes in the playoffs and win?" because that question has only been answered by one current QB with an all-time great WR corps to help him out. The question is, "Is he good enough to beat any QB in the top-10 not named Pat Mahomes in the playoffs?" I think he is. Get the Bucs a good SWR, LG, RB, NB, SS and LB and they are going to be pretty good again. That's not an impossible laundry list. |
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These billionaire owners aren't going to pay this type of money to anyone if they don't think they are worth it. Mayfield is capable of doing enough for Bucs owner to get a return on his investment and keep Bucs competitive until they find their guy. We are spoiled here in KC w Mahomes but lets not forget before he came here how hard it was for KC to find an elite QB. It's simply a very difficult position to play which is why even mediocre QBs get paid the way they do. |
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And it was hard to ever get super stoked about Alex. |
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Russillo had a stat that over some number of years (25 or something) there were precisely 0 1st round QBs that got let go for their second contract won a playoff game until Tannehill. Now Baker has one. So what he's done is pretty substantial. Plus his age would suggest he has some upside. People forget what life without Mahomes is like. The reality is Baker gives you a shot. Not a shot that Mahomes gives you, but a shot. Getting some rook in the bottom half of the first, or giving up a kings ransom and end up with a Fields type, more than likely gives you less of a chance. Quote:
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Why didn't the Browns simply keep Baker (and the picks)? Is Watson (with his price tag) really a better option?!?
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Mike Livingston, Tony Adams, Steve Fuller, Bill Kenney, Todd Blackledge, Matt Stevens, Frank Seurer, Steve DeBerg, Ron Jaworski, Steve Pelluer, Mark Vlassic, Dave Kreig, Joe Montana, Matt Blundin, Steve Bono, Rich Gannon, Elvis Grbac, Warren Moon, Trent Green, Todd Collins, Damon Huard, Brodie Croyle, ' Tyler Thigpen, Matt ****ing Cassel, Tyler Palko, Kyle Orton, Brady Quinn, Alex Smith, Chase Daniel and Nick Foles. |
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Watson is a fraud. And a serial sexual assaulter. I know life-long Browns fans that walked away on that one. Stupid, stupid franchise. |
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There should be a “mid-tier” salary range for guys like Mayfield of around $15M per year, but that market doesn’t seem to be a thing. It’s either $30M a year or you’re lucky to earn a one year deal. Doesn’t make any sense but it’s the way it ended up. |
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The thing about Baker is that he will absolutely implode at the worst possible time. The talent at OU covered up a lot of deficiencies in Baker's game.
The guy was a tool in high school, a tool in college and showing that same tendency in the NFL. His gung ho attitude will piss his teammates off by year 2 of the contract and the implosion will begin. |
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Getting your progressive commercials pulled can humble a guy |
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What crazy is that 30M a season is now considered getting a deal.
I don't blame Baker or the Team for this deal, I think it makes sense for both. I think a lot of fans say, "I'd pay him 20M but not 30." But why would Baker do that, when, as pointed out earlier, he's outplayed some of those 40M guys. The market is what the market is. We are lucky to have found Mahomes when we did. Because this is nuts. Can you imagine paying Alex 30 a year back in the day? |
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Probably because the GM and HC usually want to keep their jobs? |
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Baker was being a bit of a douche off the field in 2021, that much is true. And then his play after getting injured didn't help. However, Baker never gave up on the team or his teammates, and he never got any credit from the team for gutting it out with all the injuries. But yeah, CLE might be the worst run franchise in my lifetime. And I know several CLE fans that were so disgusted by Watson that they quit being Browns fans even before that season started. |
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100%. Baker gave CLE a legit shot at sending Mahomes to the offseason early. Not a lot of QBs can say the same. |
Baker is a total jag in every way.
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Miraculous 9-8 with weapons in the easiest division in football. Well done.
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:LOL: Show us on the doll where Baker touched you. |
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It’s essentially a 2 year $50MM guaranteed contract which is cheap by NFL QB standards. Tampa didn’t have any better options, anyways. What else do they do? Trade for Fields? Pay Cousins? Glazers are calculated. Baker made sense and always did at least for a couple years.
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