Skip Bayless Says Browns Would Be 5-0 If They Started Baker Mayfield In Week 1

TheSportster

By Rodrigo Lobato

Published Oct 12, 2018

Browns fans must be feeling good about Baker Mayfield, but Skip Bayless suggests they'd be doing even better if Cleveland started him from week one.

According to Skip, the Browns could’ve held the same record as the Kansas City Chiefs and Los Angeles Rams so far this season.

The controversial sports' columnist and commentator on the Fox Sports show Undisputed, Skip Bayless, believes that the Cleveland Browns would’ve been 5-0 if head coach Hue Jackson had started Baker Mayfield from the beginning of the season – and the referees had done a better job in week three.

Normally, we would brush off what Skip says, but on this specific topic, we think it’s worthwhile because people—mostly Browns fans—believe this as well.

“If Baker Mayfield had started from the start this year,” Skip Bayless pointed out,” if Hue Jackson had started in game 1, this team would be 5 and 0. That would be if the refs and the replay officials didn’t steal the game from them in Oakland because clearly, they won that game in regulation in Oakland.”

Everybody knows that there’s no such thing as “if” in sports. If the Raiders had paid Khalil Mack what he wanted, perhaps they would’ve won more than one game already. Maybe if the Seahawks had given the ball to Marshawn Lynch in the last play of Super Bowl XLIX, they would’ve become back-to-back champions. But the reality is that we don’t know for sure if these would’ve been the outcomes.

Baker Mayfield has proven to be a great quarterback with a tremendous amount of talent. But the best thing that can happen to a rookie QB it’s not to become the man in whom all the pressure falls from the beginning of the season. Just ask the best quarterbacks of the modern era in the NFL, Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers, who turned into one of the most talented players in the history of the league, coming out from the bench. Maybe if Hue Jackson had started the first overall pick from the start, he would’ve become a bust.

With a 2-1 record, Baker Mayfield looks like the type of offensive leader that the Browns had been looking for. No one knows what would’ve happened if Cleveland never started Tyrod Taylor. What we do know though, it’s that Mayfield is not only the guy who helped his team to break a 635 win drought but he also looks like a guy who could bring the Browns back to the postseason after 16 years.