The Big Interview: Baker Mayfield

[Music] [Applause] thank you for doing this baker appreciate it of course i know you're busy out here in l.a how was the photo shoot not bad uh first shirtless one yeah probably my last um interesting so you're cranking out some push-ups before that i had to get some push-ups in couldn't just come out here cold yeah that's not bad right there hey that's a good camera that makes you look good right there i'm gonna read you this chunk of this nfl.com scouting report okay it's on one of the prospects in this draft fall short of size marks for traditional early round quarterback short with drop down release benefited from spread scheme needs to improve full field scanning can be thrown off rhythm by delayed blitz packages deep balls can hang on it has to eliminate back foot throws desire to make plays will lead to unnecessary sacks has to prove he can reign in and control on field edge and cockiness who are they talking about that's me right there they bring pressure mayfield gets it away and gets it complete to andrews he's going to launch it downfield sooners score some of that stuff is just i mean it's unbelievable because you look at what he's saying is he talks about sacks he talks about full field scanning you don't read the whole field while the play is going on if you're trying to do that you're going to get sacked you can't have that much time when you got nfl passwords up there you got to be able to eliminate pre-snap based on coverage and alignments which side you're going to go to what you're keying so stuff like that they never played they don't know how to do it and they can write their story and i'll be happy to go prove them we have four wrong they're all somebody else and all somebody else's number and so we just need you moving around and get some kind of blurry shots i i think that you know you've always thrived when there's an open quarterback competition um there's a chance that you know you go to a team like i don't know cleveland or denver where they've got a tyrod taylor or a case keenum and even though you might beat that guy out in camp and they're calling it an open competition in the media it's not that i'm thinking that some of these teams are wondering how you're going to handle that you know what i mean yeah no and the one thing i can say is i've had experience with it i transferred to oklahoma and they had a freshman qb that had just one sugar bowl was the sugar bowl mvp uh and they asked me how i'm gonna handle sitting behind a guy like tyrod taylor at case keenum and eli manning stuff like that and so i answered the same way i said the most beneficial year throughout my career was the year i had to sit out going to oklahoma having to work for a spot on the team having to be taught patients having to learn another offense be on another coaching staff and then go through a season where i couldn't be on the field at all no matter what anybody on the outside was saying no matter what else was going on i wasn't allowed to play so for me i'd handle it the same way ready good so one thing we have to be wary of is where your front hand is going to be it has to be away from your face you might be the most compared to quarterback in in the history of college football in the history of the draft there's drew brees is one ryan leaf compared you to himself [Laughter] scott mcluhan said you were like brett favre somebody said chase daniel uh let's see rich gannon jeff garcia i haven't heard the rich canon one yeah that was on twitter russell wilson that's a pretty good one yeah there's one that you don't like your family doesn't like you know i know you've been asked about it a million times i won't ask you about the comparison but have you ever actually had a conversation with johnny when the thing is for me is there's a perception about johnny right now and he's gone through some stuff and it's i can relate to it on my off the field stuff in 2017 there's people love to write a story and it's it's the next biggest thing and so when you have a guy like johnny that's had a lot of success that he's had things that he's been very blessed with people will take the first chance to jump on him and you know try and bring him down a little bit and so no i don't like the comparison because it's compared in the negative ways now if you looked at it in the positive ways johnny's an incredible athlete you can never take away what he did in college how he absolutely took the culture of all scene by storm guy's an incredible playmaker and so all i can do is be myself and those comparisons will end i mean i'm going to go out and do my thing and you know it's yeah i got arrested yeah i did some dumb stuff on the field uh in 2017 but for me what i've realized is time moves forward and i'll be able to just show who i am as a person and when i have these conversations with coaches that's all that matters you know i can actually show what the real baker is

Channel: Sports Illustrated

Views: 30,850

Rating: 4.9298244 out of 5

Keywords: sports illustrated, sports, football, NFL, Draft, Oklahoma, Sooners, Cleveland Browns, Baker Mayfield

Id: TE2bd9ZiRSM

Length: 5min 20sec (320 seconds)

Published: Thu Mar 11 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/marshallwillenh0lly]

Him wearing the Jets and Dolphins jersey made me cringe so badly. Gross.

[u/MUSinfonian]

For context, this interview is from 2018. SI rereleased this interview in preparation for the draft.

[u/IDontRegreddit]

The “deep balls hang on him” part of that scouting report made me wonder if they actually watched him given how good of a deep ball thrower he’s been in college and the NFL.

[u/BrokenFret]

My man

[u/DJ_GiantMidget]

Baker Mayfield is the first man who taught me, I could love a man!