 So last night we watched two number one overall picks go to battle. It was Joe Burrow and the Cincinnati Bengals versus Baker Mayfield and the Cleveland Browns and both teams were coming off a loss the previous week so this was a must win game for each of them. Of course the Browns ended up coming out on top in a very close game a very good game that came down not necessarily to the wire but it came down to the end of the fourth quarter. But after the end of the fourth quarter Baker Mayfield he was being interviewed by NFL Network and a headline that caught a lot of people's attention especially minds this morning was one that what Baker Mayfield said the Ravens are a physical team grabbing and holding a little just when you're off a little bit you can tell and that was Baker Mayfield's response to somebody asking him what the biggest difference was between last week and this week when it came to him and O'Dell Beckham Junior's connection and immediately when I saw that I was thinking really Baker Mayfield you really taking shots at the Ravens and it almost to me it sounded whiny it sounded like oh well the Ravens are holding there and I'm thinking isn't O'Dell Beckham Junior one of the best receivers in the league hey this is gonna happen to him and it's unfortunate but it's gonna happen to him because every team does a little bit of holding here and there your offensive line they hold for you every now and then probably a lot every offensive line holds every game it happens and I think maybe he was thinking of William Jackson when he held O'Dell Beckham Junior and the refs just they last night they just didn't decide to call it because O'Dell Beckham Junior had him beat William Jackson said nah I'm not trying to be no highlight on Thursday night football and he held them but he ended up being a highlight anyway but I just thought when I first saw that I was like man like really Baker come on now like you're known for running your mouth you're known for just being a whiny player I'm not trying to think that of you but you're making it hard but then at the same time I was like hold on let me wait so then I went down Twitter some more and and somebody said it's amazing how much better you look when you don't play the Ravens and I was thinking ah well that that makes sense so maybe he was just a little frustrated from last week's game and whatnot and especially because all the talk of the town had been him and O'Dell Beckham Junior but then somebody else said Baker Mayfield is a joke for his comments and that that came from a Ravens fan and I was thinking well I'm not gonna call him a joke but at the same time I'm like why what do you what is he still running his mouth about the Ravens when that was last week but then I said wait a minute wait a minute we need context because context can make such a big difference so what we did let's listen to that part of the interview together this is Baker Mayfield's interview on from NFL Network last night post game listen this was a very very impressive performance by you and the entire team tonight there in Cleveland I just want to know when you woke up this morning how'd you feel so from jump and I don't mean to cut it off but you see from jump they tried to sort of bait Baker Mayfield she tried to bait him because as we all know their famous Baker Mayfield saying she said how'd you wake up this morning because Baker Mayfield always said oh I woke up feeling dangerous but anyway let's go that's over with and and he shut it down right away he said I felt good that's over with so he knew what she was talking about he knew what she was trying to do and that's a goal of the media that's a big goal of the media is to sort of try to bait you into saying certain stuff so they can have some headline worthy articles but anyway let's continue so he did a good job of avoiding that like he avoided getting sacked last night he almost avoided throwing picks but he ended up throwing that one but he did a good job of escaping that one in eluding that one let's keep going so listen uh how important was winning this game against an divisional opponent after coming out the way that the Browns did last week and that lost to the Browns or to the Ravens yeah you know Ravens are a great team a lot of returning players in the same system but we were just disappointed with how we played our execution the lack of focus on the details so we wanted to come out here with you know short week you're not going to have an extensive game plan come out here do our job establish the run game lean on those guys up front and they did an incredible job over 200 yards rushing no sacks and it was just a kudos to those guys and we executed outside but you know still mad about the red zone interception can't have that especially when we're trying to pull away like that baker the connection between you and odell has been much talked about in the last five days but you guys were clearly in lockstep tonight odell was four for 74 yards in a touchdown what do you think the difference was between tonight and five days ago against the ravens i just got the ball out of my hands quicker we're just on the same page i think last week there was a lot of like the ravens are a physical team grabbing and holding a little bit just when you're off a little bit uh you can tell so we were clicking tonight and that's how it should be that's what we expect so this is why context is so important it's extremely important i know there may be some of y'all that may still feel like oh man baker look at i'm just trying to say something about the ravens and he's still being whiny but to others when you actually when you listen to it it it doesn't seem as whiny as it originally did because he was asked a question he was asked a question hey baker what was the difference between last week and this week with you and odell beckham juniors connection what happened he was four for 74 last night but it certainly wasn't that way last week but what was the biggest difference and he said hey and what he did he he worded it wisely as wisely as he possibly could while still being honest about how he felt about the game last week because he said hey well ravens they are a physical team is that not true it's definitely true they are a physical team and even in today's nfl the ravens still they still try to play a little old school defense as much as they possibly can but so baker may feel he gave them their props with that one they are a physical team but then he said oh but and there was there was some grabbing and holding now i know a lot of ravens fans didn't like that part but it was true either you know marlin when marlin got called for some of them too but marlin hey hey you know what marlin i'm for you i love you and boy ravens they better resign you i ain't playing about that one but um marlin be doing that sometimes i would rather that than him give up the touchdown now he's still a great cornerback still a really good cornerback i would rather him do that than give up the touchdown so if you feel like you got beat okay you better grab that jersey don't let him go free don't let him go but i i i i can't understand the part where uh some people would say that it is a little whining because i mean you you're sort of stating the obvious like i said earlier in the video this happens every single game the ravens are not the only team that does this it happens every single game like we talked about earlier william jackson certainly grabbed uh odell beckham juniors jersey now it was crystal clear it was crystal clear live when we watch it so you know for the reps it was even more crystal clear because they were there at the game looking at the players but this is something that happens it happens on offense it happens on defense it just happens so that i mean i then after listening and watching the interview i don't have a problem with what he said um but it it's almost like it kind of sounded like an excuse because again like i said it happens every game but this game you still were able to get the job done with odell beckham jr despite there being some holding in this game so with him saying it it didn't sound whiny but it just sound like oh well well the reason that we didn't get it last week was because of this but this still happened this week and you got it done so football enough times with football it's about overcoming obstacles and one of those obstacles is the defense when you're on offense one of those obstacles is the defense and they're going to be doing everything they can to disrupt your rhythm to disrupt your chemistry to disrupt your rapport now baker mayfield and odell beckham jr they took part of the disruption as well i don't know if you all remember but odell beckham jr it was toward the end of the i think it was in the fourth quarter odell beckham jr had beat marquess peters it was touchdown it was touchdown all day but baker mayfield overthrew it odell beckham jr had him beat i think it would have been like maybe like a 40 50 yard touchdown because he had him beat but baker mayfield sailed it now there was some other passes where odell beckham jr just dropped the ball he just dropped it and there was other passes with marlin humphrey broke it up and those guys just they couldn't get it last sunday but again there it just again why it didn't sound whiny it did sound kind of like an excuse because you're gonna have to deal with these you're gonna have to deal with these these things every single week and especially if you have one of the better receivers in the league that's gonna happen people are gonna hold his jersey it's gonna happen and you of course hope that it gets called but if it doesn't you still gotta execute regardless you still have a job to do he still has a job to do and those people are gonna try to make it harder for both of you to do your jobs but you still gotta get it done anyway team keep it clean i appreciate y'all i love y'all and oh just like with how many excuses baker mayfield is left with i think he is all