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Baker Mayfield criticizes referees for missed calls during Browns vs. Chargers: ‘Forward the fine letter now’ | Sporting News Canada
Baker Mayfield is expecting to hear from the NFL soon, as he doesn’t think that the league will be happy with his comments after the Browns’ 47-42 loss to the Chargers on Sunday.
Cleveland’s quarterback ripped into the referees for their performance in Week 5. He claimed that they missed a couple of key pass interference calls that had an impact on the Browns in his postgame press conference.
“Late in the game — might as well forward the fine letter now. We asked the ref on the sideline how the hell he missed that call,” Mayfield said, via The Athletic’s Zac Jackson. “They were shoving [receiver Donovan Peoples-Jones] out of bounds and then [receiver Rashard Higgins] gets grabbed, so there’s two PIs in one play. They didn’t call it.”
Jackson confirmed that there should have been at least an illegal contact penalty after watching the play that Mayfield mentioned. Peoples-Jones was, in fact, shoved out of bounds.
Amid the Browns’ Odell Beckham Jr. drama, the mercurial wide receiver has at least one big name in his corner.
Former All-Pro receiver Steve Smith, who is now an analyst for NFL Network, called out Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield for his apparent role in the conflict during the pregame show for “Thursday Night Football.
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With Week 1 over, Good Morning Football’s Kyle Brandt was gearing up to award his famous “Angry Runs” scepter — and the first edition of 2023’s award is heading to Tampa Bay.
Brandt awards a scepter every week to the player who he deems has the angriest run, and he awarded Week 1’s scepter to Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Baker Mayfield. In the final frame of the game, Mayfield stiff-armed Vikings cornerback Byron Murphy to gain a chunk of yards and told the Minnesota CB to “get his weight up” while heading back to the huddle.
Mayfield went up against Seattle Seahawks running back Kenneth Walker III, Chicago Bears RB Roschon Johnson and Tennessee Titans RB Derrick Henry, but in the end, the QB won out. Mayfield is the second Bucs player to win the “Angry Runs” scepter from GMFB, the first being Rachaad White
