Browns: Colin Cowherd can’t keep Baker Mayfield out of his mouth

Colin Cowherd knows that when he talks about Baker Mayfield, Cleveland and the rest of the Browns backers will take notice.

Colin Cowherd is among the most obtuse people in sports. He can’t, and I say this with all the will I have in my body, he can’t actually believe the drek that he spews. If he isn’t predicting Bruce Arians being fired by the end of the playoffs, he’s declaring boldly that the Jets will be in the AFC title game with Adam Gase as their head coach. He’s a special one, that Cowherd. Yet, in Cleveland, we take the most notice when he’s trashing the Browns best quarterback in 30 years, Baker Mayfield.

Like a jilted ex-lover, Cowherd has a tendency to flip-flop on his emotions. One minute he’s decreeing to his dwindling audience that Mayfield has “arrived” and that he can be the man in Cleveland to lead them to the promised land. Then a week goes by and he realizes his ratings are down; the Browns have a huge fanbase and boom; roasting Mayfield is the soup du jour.

On the most recent edition of his show, which no one ever watches live, why would you, he takes yet another shot at Mayfield. He’s asked which quarterbacks he’d take over Mayfield for the next five years.

He picks Carson Wentz over Mayfield, which is silly. He picks Kirk Cousins over Mayfield, which is concerning. Cousins over Mayfield? Is there a medical reason why he does the noon show? He picks Matt Ryan, who’s a bad sneeze away from retirement. He picks Tom Brady, who’d be 50 by the end of this thought-experiment. I don’t care if Brady is better at football than Michael Jordan is at basketball, by 48 Brady won’t be as good at football as Jordan was at baseball.

He does pick Mayfield over Jared Goff, Mitch Trubisky, Ben Roethlisberger, and Tua Tagovailoa.

What’s aggravating is, he’s still hitting the tired troupes. He’d take Justin Herbert over Mayfield because Herbert is “bigger”. Someone tell Drew Brees that Eli Manning was a better player than him. Derek Carr gets the nod over Mayfield and I’m left wondering “….what? I can’t.”

The most mind-boggling statement though, the one that shows you he has no credibility is when he says “Mayfield doesn’t have a history of winning big games” and I’m left wondering why this man has any credibility.

Mayfield had the 10th best season by a quarterback according to QBR. Mayfield is 25 and is durable as heck. He’s a former Heisman winner, was the Sugar Bowl MVP, and was ranked by ESPN as the No. 1 college quarterback of the 2000s over Tim “Freaking” Tebow!

Cowherd knows that when he feeds the Mayfield-slander-monster that we’re going to show up. Mayfield is a great quarterback and while he still has things to work on in his game, he’s more than proven his worth. Thank goodness men like Emmanuel Acho are on that network.