Chapter 1: What insights does the episode provide about Baker Mayfield's career?
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Chapter 2: How did the Dolphins' performance impact fans' expectations?
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The Baker story is a cool one when I tell it through the context of what it takes to be one of the people who gets the privilege of being a star at that position. America, which makes you, in the game that most grinds these guys to dust... one of the 10, 15 guys allowed to be a superstar. Not a fantasy sports superstar. Not the guy that your league loves to have.
No, one of the quarterbacks who gets to be Mark Sanchez walking around in retirement with a great broadcasting career. Because once we anoint you here... You got a broadcasting job for life as I'm Americana.
I told you my story in college when I was at Oklahoma and the school mattered more when I was there, when I ran Johnny Manziel off the road and I'm the guy with the video that you can see me trying to run away from the cops. I'm an outlaw. People are all polarized by him as he gets to the pros. Not unlike Tua, polarizing guy. Why is he polarizing? Polarizing guy.
Cleveland has expectations for the first time in 30 years. Never should have done it. Swallows him whole. Odell Beckham ends his career. Travis Landry, thanks for trying. Wouldn't want to limp through retirement with you because of how you had to play trying to keep that shit machine at 500. The shit machine Browns. Don't have anything good. Can't be trusted with anything good.
Spend all their money. on a quarterback and are crippled forever, no matter who they play back there. 17 points in the last 10 games, that's how you're uninteresting the same way you were when you were 1-31 for two seasons. Franchise, done. Miles Garrett, you should have forced your way out of there.
They're going to eat up your career, and it's not going to be worth it, and you're tired at the end of the games. And look, it's Carson Wentz and Minnesota's Bastion. They'll do things with Flores. Your career's going to be wasted there, Miles. It's going to be a bummer.
He seems aware.
They'll make him quit the way that the Lions once made Calvin Johnson quit and Barry Sanders quit because you can't play physically that way and be ravaged by that sport. But the Baker Mayfield story, I want to talk about this for a second because you're not really allowed to come and ransack the league from behind on a horse collar because, no, no, no, you guys left me for dead back there.
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Chapter 3: What are the implications of Belichick's coaching decisions?
I did the math, took inventory. A total of five first-round draft picks, two seconds, one-third, two-fourths, DJ Moore, and a staggering $230 million guaranteed for the privilege of having Deshaun Watson and Bryce Young play quarterback over Baker Mayfield for your franchise.
They had Sam Darnold and Baker Mayfield, and losing organizations are going to be losing organizations. That's what the Jets are, and that's what the Browns are.
But that's what the Bucs are supposed to be without Tom Brady. And this guy, you couldn't pick a tougher guy to follow. And a more different dude, by the way. Yeah, he does the LFG stuff, but his approach is different. That's why last year in Tom Brady's greatest moment as a broadcaster, you kind of saw the difference in their approach and Tom Brady kind of took offense to it.
They have an identity. Their identity is as clear as anybody's in the league. We're going to let our quarterback win these games for us, and he's going to check with his receivers, and he's going to go downfield, and it doesn't matter how good your defense is because that is a brilliant defense that Seattle has, and it didn't matter.
Let me frame this, though, a different way for you because when we talk about stars and faces for this league, one of the reasons they're giving Brady that much money to be a broadcaster is because If they keep America tethered to the broadcast, hey, that's Tony Romo. I remember him.
They keep the quarterbacks in your living room on Sundays because Troy Aikman's one of the voices, and I remember when his best season was 20 touchdowns. The way that they continue to grow the sport through all of its voices and everything that they're doing. Baker Mayfield... Tom Brady from on high lorded down during the broadcast, as Mike just said.
It was the most interesting broadcasting moment he had is because that's not the way he would have done it. But this is the way Baker does it. And when I think about likability, I like Baker a lot more than I do Brady. And I know, Brady, you're the winner. You get to win at everything.
But that seems more authentic to me, flaws and all, than whatever it is you're grinning about with your perfect teeth and saying nothing during the broadcast, even though I know you know shit, but you've got so many corporate conflicts and compromises that you can't say anything through that grit teeth except give me more money. It's all stamped on your face. I can't professionally broadcast here.
I'm too compromised. I've got too many sponsors. Baker Mayfield's real. Like whatever that is has been on display for a long time. That part's super interesting to me, right? When I see what happens to Belichick, I see Kraft try to redo the story. I see Brady try to redo the story over here. And now Drake Mays, the star in New England, and they get to take over with Vrabel.
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Chapter 4: How does the discussion highlight the differences between Brady and Mayfield?
Belichick wanted to trade Garoppolo over to Shanahan. They've got something figured out over there that's Belichick, not the smartest guy anymore. We've all seen it stripped. Brady won, he takes the credit, Kraft tells the story. Belichick is running around the earth, embarrassing himself at the end of his career, has no chance against these teams.
Mike Lombardi, game passed him by, sending apology letters, everyone mocking him for not knowing what actual pros looked like because they didn't get any of them and North Carolina's not playing top-tier football. Belichick's thing ends in disgrace where they're saying as a university, we're not going to celebrate Drake May because they're rebuilding it in New England without us.
Oh, it's going to be Vrabel. and it's going to be Drake May, and they just knocked off the Bills. No word from North Carolina. How small is that as an ending for Belichick? Brady's not going to lose at the end here, and neither is Kraft, but Belichick loses all the way to the grave? He's winning in some aspects.
His girlfriend. One, yeah, one aspect.
She's young. That's winning. To trade it all for disgrace, though? Because I thought that was royalty. I thought that that was genius that knew no bounds. I thought that that knew more about how to win than all the other people trying to compete at how to win. And now, no? Professional football over money is being played in college and the old men have been left out?
I mean, I just saw James Franklin run out of the sport this weekend. That's one of the highest paid coaches in the game. He just lost to 0-4 UCLA. That never happens to a real program. That never happens. That's a never thing. Lose to 0-4 when you're a top program in the country.
Also, it's not a normal thing for the 0-4 team to have a quarterback that held his college football playoff team hostage over an NIL package. It's just a very strange time. Bill Belichick's got to struggle with it. Hopefully he realizes he's getting smacked in the mouth right now. Hopefully he realizes he's not smarter than everybody else. Oh, I need to get dudes. This isn't about scouting.
James Franklin, though, that one's a weird one. And the excuses were not great. Cross-country flight, are you kidding me?
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Chapter 5: What factors contribute to the polarizing nature of certain quarterbacks?
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I want to talk about the college football of the weekend because I love that Washington, Maryland game. I love the K-State-Baylor game. But before I do that, can you guys just tell me, like, how many touchdowns DeMarcado has in his career? Because I was not familiar with this person's work before yesterday. And this is my fault, not his, because I don't mean to call him a nobody.
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Chapter 6: How does the episode address the state of college football coaching?
Who would have thought? Think about this for a second. That's like Vince Lombardi doing that. I want you guys to imagine at Alabama. Go ahead and imagine at Alabama, Bear Bryant. Bear Bryant leaving. This guy taught Saban everything he knew. Saban did it. You think Saban would get caught doing that?
Hamas. It'd be funny if Miss Terry was following him out the door, though. It is crazy.
We're in agreement, right? We're in agreement that the enjoyment, that team, the worst part of what's happened to him there is the following. Because everything's been so sped up, Bill, that's the four games you got. That's the grace period. Dion had to do it in a year. Like, Cristobal's got three years to do it. You've got to do it. Oh, this is what it looks like the first year.
Oh, no, you're not competitive at all. And also, North Carolina, no longer interesting. Zero interest. Clearly well behind everyone else. That's minor league football in minor league football. That is not a top program. Period. End of story. We can close the book on that.
I got to think he knows now what it's about. I think he's a little behind the eight ball in that he thought he could scout his way to it a little bit. And I think he knows immediately it's not all about that. There is like a scouting network and an eval. Look, Miami's doing it with some true freshmen that weren't like the highest rated guys. There's some of that too at play.
North Carolina has the budget to fix this. North Carolina has the resources to just be like, we're going to attack the portal. We're going to attack high school recruiting. It's just he kind of wasted a year, and he looks bad in doing so. He's getting embarrassed, and there is nothing that is in the gossip sphere that remotely reminds us of who this guy was when he was a pro.
Belichick was an okay good in the early days evaluator, but the last couple times, the last maybe 10, 15 years of the draft, what has shown you that he's drafted well from getting evaluations that hit?
So this is the most interesting part of this to me as someone who will concede on the front end and must, as we all must. Oh, these people know millions and millions and millions of times more about what they do for a living than we do. And we'll dissect every part of it and we'll say, hey, this quarterback was better.
They devote their life to this, and Bill Belichick has for a long time believed that he is smarter than everyone else because they had a quarterback who won all the games, and we were convinced was because of the military discipline of the Patriot way that can harbor a murderer and survive it and keep winning championships because whatever.
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