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A low risk, high reward move by Fitt and the gang, and I am more excited for the season than I have been in a long time. Here are some snips from the athletic on Mayfield in preseason and heading into the regular season: ARTICLE from Joe Person on preseason game: Mayfield kept his trademark swagger and cockiness to a minimum as he acclimated to his new team during training camp. But delivering a hit to a backup corner probably signifies Mayfield is ready for the regular season. On hit to Bills defender: “I tried to tell him, ‘My bad,’ because I know he was easing up on it, and I didn’t want to hurt him. He didn’t take the apology very well, which is OK,” Mayfield said. “Just gotta protect myself on the boundary. He was playing smart, so I appreciate that.” Mayfield’s best throw came on his second touchdown pass — a 19-yard strike to preseason star Shi Smith after Mayfield slid in the pocket to create a throwing lane. And his worst throw might have been on his first touchdown — a 2-yard toss to running back D’Onta Foreman, who had to reach back and snag the ball one-handed on his way into the end zone. Mayfield said he needed to put the ball on Foreman’s upfield shoulder. “Yeah, it’s a touchdown. But if there’s a defender actually chasing him, it’s a terrible throw,” Mayfield said. “Those are the little things I’m going to be extremely critical about myself, and that’s just the way I work.” Mayfield completed 13 of 22 preseason passes for 134 yards and two touchdowns. Rhule’s favorite Mayfield stat was his turnover total: zip. “In two preseason games, he protected the ball, kept the ball out of harm’s way. At the same time, not afraid to make aggressive throws,” Rhule said. “The corner route he threw to Chuba (Hubbard) was an aggressive throw. The play he made to Shi was outside the X’s and O’s. We have a good feel for it, but at the same time he’s just getting started in this offense.” It’s easy to forget that it’s been fewer than two months since the Panthers and Browns agreed on trade terms for Mayfield, who felt snubbed by Cleveland’s pursuit of Deshaun Watson. He’s still getting his timing down with the backs and receivers, several of whom didn’t play or only played a few snaps. An example: Rhule wanted to see the offense this week clean up the timing between Mayfield and the tight ends on corner routes, after Mayfield failed to connect on a couple of those at practice. Mayfield checked that box on the second drive, dropping a perfectly placed ball to Stephen Sullivan on a corner route for a 21-yard gain. Still, Mayfield understands Rhule’s point about just scratching the surface of Ben McAdoo’s offense. “Yeah, he’s right,” Mayfield said. “Obviously, I’m just getting started within it. But I feel completely comfortable with the knowledge of it. Now it’s just a matter of going out and seeing it and putting it in action.”

No more trading period. We have already traded enough from next years draft

Jesus. I never seen it coming.

Other than last year, if he duplicates the previous years id be totally down to sign him to a 3 year deal. I don’t think you would want anything more than that to see how he does, and you are not crippled if things don’t work out. The thing with Baker is that you know he is talented, he Can lead grown men, has an alpha mentality, and you know what his floor is. I don’t think a 3 year deal for someone like him will be something that will haunt us if it does not work out. It totally depends on his performance this year, but it is a very low risk/high reward move. Dude is on another level compared to Teddy/Sam “Gumby” Darnold and I can say that with complete confidence before he even takes a regular season snap for us.

We definitely cannot go back to the glory days of having a franchise QB like Cam, but this is as good as I’ve felt since we cut him.

We finally have an alpha at the QB position since Cam

Finally a voice of reason here at the Huddle!

Exactly what I thought when I was reading the article. Most teams play multiple QB’s? Weird thing to say.

Rhule is a complete Joke. It’s childish at this point.

Anything in this world is possible…. This could be a great success. You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take. Look at Michael Jordan for example, he never thought in his wildest dreams that he could be a starting guard in the NFL, then he stumbled upon Matt Rhule and is living out his dreams.

The Patriots don’t know anything about being tough. They have never had to struggle and use piss bottles in a dorm like our team has

Let’s all hope that today is that day Baker is named our starter like Icky was yesterday. The battle with Sam “Gumby” Darnold is almost officially over boys and girls!!

THE RETURN OF THE TWO KINGS

I listened to the entire thing. Fantastic content. You made me feel much better about the “position battles” going on at QB, center and LT

Just got through interviewing Corrals girlfriend. She said he never comes early. I quickly changed the subject and ask her to talk about camp and the QB competition

Nothing like having your choice of 1st offensive player on your board, then acting like they he won’t be given a starting role. He’s a rookie but throw him in there with the ones and let him learn and adjust. If Icky is not a day 1 starter, Rhule should be fired before the 1st game.

I was pumping gas this morning at 5 am and Corral was nice enough to clean my windshield. He was listening to a special edition of the Macadoo audio playbook for dummies. I ask what he was doing up so early, and he said as a rookie he was told he had to throw away all of the vets piss bottles.

Huddle overreaction on fleek

Article: The Panthers are unlikely to have linebacker Shaq Thompson on the field for their initial training camp practices this week. Head coach Matt Rhule said on Monday that Thompson is likely to open camp on the physically unable to perform list. Thompson had a surgical procedure to clean up his knee this offseason and Rhule said, via multiple reporters, that he could miss a couple of weeks while working his way back to full strength. Thompson had 104 tackles, two sacks, and two interceptions while appearing in 14 games for the Panthers last season. Rhule also said that the team expects to have defensive tackle Daviyon Nixon on the field. Nixon played seven games last year before a season-ending knee injury. https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2022/07/25/shaq-thompson-likely-to-go-on-pup-list-after-having-knee-cleaned-up/

I would be happy with both of them locking down a spot but it would make me cringe thinking about Icky being licked number 6 overall, 1st offensive player drafted, prototype LT going into LG. That seems like the ultimate Rhule move but I see no way it happens that way

Black Helmet news was a cover up!!!!

We haven’t had a QB who could throw deep in a very long time. That alone will get me excited and it will DJ and Robby as well. They both have been playing the underneath game waaaaay to much the last two years.

Slow time so another article I came across. Florio has an attitude about him that really gets annoying. Last year, when the Eagles sent quarterback Carson Wentz to the Colts, Wentz was able to tell himself that he was right and the Eagles were wrong. After one year in Indy, it became obvious that he was wrong about who was right and who was wrong. This year, the Browns have sent quarterback Baker Mayfield to the Panthers. Is Mayfield telling himself that it’s the team’s fault that things didn’t work? Does he take any responsibility for how things went in Cleveland? It’s an important point to keep in mind moving forward, Eventually, and inevitably, Mayfield will encounter adversity in Carolina. Whether he doesn’t win the starting job (it’s possible Sam Darnoldgets the gig) or struggles in the early part of the season or gets injured or has a bad showing in a win and snubs the media or whatever, at some point his maturity will be tested. Enter his passion. The passion is the root of the periodic displays of immaturity. He wants to win. When he doesn’t win (or when things don’t go his way), he gets salty. He gets snippy. Former Browns coach Freddie Kitchens, whose one-year tenure saw Mayfield regress from his success as a rookie, said in a recent appearance on SiriusXM NFL Radio that Mayfield’s passion is “an attribute . . . not necesarily a detriment.” It can be both. For the best quarterbacks, the challenge becomes using the passion to push the right buttons, but to not let the passion cause problems. That’s the strangest thing about the obsession with winning that so many pro athletes exhibit. In a kid, the compulsion to win at anything and everything is viewed as a negative. In an adult, it’s regarded as admirable. “The difference between good, great, and elite is sometime the passion you bring to the game,” Kitchens said. He’s right. Still, that passion causes the adult to behave at times like a child, it’s not good. It poisoned the well for Mayfield in Cleveland. It may have contributed to Kitchens, now a senior football analyst at the University of South Carolina, getting fired after only one year as the head coach. https://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2022/07/15/freddie-kitchens-baker-mayfieds-passion-is-an-attribute-not-a-detriment/