Baker Mayfield - Carolina Panthers
The Carolina Panthers have not had the most pleasing starts in the 2022-23 NFL Season and Baker Mayfield has been at the helm of criticism. However, across the two games, Mayfield has shown nothing but courage to encourage his team to out-smart the opponents. Unfortunately, for him, it hasn’t worked so far.
Across the first two games of the 2022-23 NFL Season, Baker Mayfield has totaled 380 passing yards, two passing TouchDowns and one interception and a 79.5 Quarterback rating. He completed 53.6% of his throws, with a tally of 41 rushing yards and one rushing TouchDown.
Bayless quoted on the latest episode of Undisputed, “What I’ve learned in the first two weeks of the season is that – Baker Mayfield is not Tom Brady. This is what I’ve learned. I thought that Baker might walk into a team who have lost 7 games last year and was ranked #32 by ESPN’s power rankings – Baker said, ‘I like my chances as a hopeless underdog and can turn things around over there.’ But no! He’s not Brady.”
While the idea of Baker Mayfield was to turn the fate around for a depleted Carolina Panthers, yet the reality has not favored him yet.
Bayless added, “I thought that Baker Mayfield could urge – He’s a gifted leader, I don’t care what anybody says. He could urge this team back across that fine line into W-ville.”
Panthers acquired Baker Mayfield from Cleveland Browns for a 2024 conditional fifth-round draft pick. To those who are not aware – Cleveland’s primary Quarterback from 2018-2021. Concerning the rest of the Panthers’ QB room, Darnold is on injured reserve with an ankle injury and rookie Matt Corral suffered a season-ending Lisfranc injury in August. Summarizing it up, this is the fourth season where Panthers have tried a new Quarterback.
Will it be Baker Mayfield’s time to answer back his critics when his team lock horns against the New Orleans Saints on Sunday? Remains to be seen.