NFL fans call out Baker Mayfield's wife for comparing Browns QB to Brett Favre and Drew Brees
Baker Mayfield's wife, Emily Wilkinson Mayfield, chose to stand up for her husband after he came in for fierce criticism following his interception-laden performance against the Green Bay Packers.
Emily chose to compare Baker Mayfield to two of the greatest quarterbacks to have played the game, Drew Brees and Brett Favre. She compared their statistics and implied that Baker Mayfield was better than them at this stage of their careers.
She pointed out that Baker Mayfield had more yards and touchdowns in the NFL than Brett Favre and Drew Brees, and fewer interceptions than Brett Favre. While the comparison was impressive, it did not provide any context and NFL fans were more than happy to provide some.
NFL fans did not take kindly to the comparison and took aim at Emily on social media.
Baker Mayfield’s wife, Emily Mayfield, posted this story on Instagram highlighting Baker’s stats
Thoughts? 🤔 https://t.co/ZvNAtQXBnb
The first thing that was pointed out was that both Brees and Favre did not play their rookie season and naturally the results were skewed towards Baker Mayfield in that case. They also pointed out that Favre and Brees played in an erawhen the NFL was not as pass-happy as it is nowadays.
Anyone wants to tell Baker Mayfield's wife that Favre and Brees sat out their entire rookie seasons and played in a different era of football without today's passing rules that favor the offense so much? https://t.co/HLX1aojemZ
Further context was also provided by NFL fans by pointing out where Baker Mayfield is after four years and where Favre and Brees were. By the fourth year, they were both ahead of Baker Mayfield.
@NFL_DovKleiman On top of not playing their rookie years, look at Favre and Brees 4th season in comparison to Baker… Favre: 3882 yds; 33tds; 14ints; 62.4comp%
Brees: 3159yds; 27tds; 7ints; 65.5comp%
Mayfield (still 2 games to play): 2825yds; 15tds; 11ints; 62.4comp%
Others pointed to the respective quarterbacks' winning records. Now it is true that winning margins do not tell the whole story since football is a team sport. But a look at game-winning drives in four years places Baker Mayfield firmly at the bottom again.
When it comes down to it, here’s what really matters:
Baker Mayfield has had a total of 7 game winning drives by Year 4. Brees had 11 by Year 4. Favre had 10 by Year 4.
Baker Mayfield: 29-28 in Year 4
Drew Brees: 40-34
Brett Favre: 50-27
Wins matter. #Browns https://t.co/GGp0YYg11B
Others pointed out that Mayfield and Jameis Winston had similar figures and questioned why Emily had not included Winston in the comparison. It showed that there was perhaps an inkling there for her to know what she was doing.
How come Emily Mayfield didn’t include Jameis in the Brees/Favre comp? Must have been incidental. twitter.com/thepewterplank…
That said, a few fans did jump to Mayfield's defense. They pointed out that when the number of games, and not years, was taken into account, Mayfield's numbers were comparable to Favre and Brees.
Again the stats are silly to be hung up on because Baker has obvious flaws that have made little to no improvement, but if we must. #Browns
Through 58 starts:
Brees: 12,127 yds, 79 TDs, 53 INTs
Favre: 13,931, 101, 63
Mayfield: 13,940, 76, 47 twitter.com/NFL_DovKleiman…
Suffice to say that the conclusion we can draw from this saga is that Baker Mayfield has not come close to reaching the status of Brett Favre and Drew Brees. That said, those who make him out to be a very bad quarterback are lacking in nuanced judgment as well.
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