The Takes: Baker Mayfield is the NFL’s Batman
The Dark Night
Not the hero you want, but the hero you need
This is Baker Mayfield
If you didn’t see what Baker did on Thursday Night Football, you fucking MISSED out…
But you shouldn’t be surprised by it. He is the Defender of The NFL. Look at the Caped Crusader’s career…
Day 1: Cleveland Browns
Baker arrives to the NFL (Gotham) a villain. People call him cocky. People call him a punk. People say that he will not be able to lead a locker room.
But Baker does as Batman would do. He controls this anger.
“Your anger gives you great power. But if you let it, it will destroy you…”
-Liam Neeson in Batman Begins
He puts on that shit-stained Browns helmet and turns those cattle, into steers.
The Cleveland Browns become a competitive football team. If you were born post-1990, you probably thought of The Browns the same way that I always have; a team that has never been good, and never will be. That was just the law of the NFL. That team was the one you would laugh at when they lost, and get the very few “how the fuck did they win” weeks every season.
But not with Baker… Baker comes in and does the unthinkable. He wins.
Week 3, 2018, the rookie Baker Mayfield, the number 1 overall pick, is thrown into a game against the Jets in the second quarter. His 0-1-1 team is down 14, yet what does he do? The kid slings that skin around and comes back and WINS
He later leads this squad to a 7-7 season under center. Something that seemed impossible for any Cleveland Browns team to ever do.
His sophomore year gets rough. After losing his head coach (Hugh Jackson, yuck) he is given Freddie Kitchens to be his next right-hand man to lead the team
Look at this fat fucking slob. What the fuck is Batman supposed to do with this?? Kitchens is setting his team up for failure. Baker does what he can, but the media ridicules his 6-10 record in 2019.
“Fear is a tool […] They think I’m hiding in the shadows. But I am the shadows.”
-THE FUCKING BATMAN
Baker comes back the following season and wins. The first time the Browns have a winning record in 13 years and Baker was a god damn hero. The Browns are in the playoffs. Everyone loves Baker.
But when things get rough, the people turn.
Baker then starts to get the blame.
With a good defense, the team still can only muster up 8 wins, and misses the post season.
There are plenty of reasons why this could happen, but the people decide it was Baker’s fault.
Why.
Why is it that this former hero, has turned heel?
He is The Batman
“Endure, Master Wayne Baker. Take it. They’ll hate you for it, but that’s the point of Batman, he can be the outcast. He can make the choice that no one else can make, the right choice”
-Alfred, the smartest mother fucker ever.
Batman is cast aside, to the depths of hell. Carolina.
Similar to what Batman had to go through when he is thrown into that weird pit thing when Bane takes over Gotham
Baker starts his journey in the Pit called the Panthers and loses.
He loses and loses.
Carolina has had enough of him. He is cast aside. Gotham has told Batman they do not need him any longer.
“The night is darkest just before the dawn. And I promise you, the dawn is coming.”
- That lawyer dude that ends up having half a face, speaking to Batman
This is where our story leads to last Thursday Night.
The Demon of the Night flies into LAX and lands at 6:45 pm on Tuesday and plays fucking QUARTERBACK on Thursday less than 48 hours later. Like, it makes some sense if he was a Tight End or a Running Back. In those positions, you aren’t in charge of every single player on your side of the field.
But as a Quarterback? What the fuck.
Not only did he play, but leads an insane comeback.
Down 13 with only 1 time out and 3:55 left on the clock. Baker is faced with a 4th down attempt.
Not only does he convert this attempt with a fantastic throw, but it sets the team up on the 1 yard line that would lead to an easy rush up the middle to make this a 6-point game.
Next time our hero is able to touch the ball, his back is against the wall. Literally his own endzone.
On his own 2-yard line, Baker needs to take the ball 98 yards, with no time-outs, and only 1:45 left.
He doesn’t even know all of the names of his teammates, yet this is no tall task for Batman.
After a string of amazing throws and great command of the offense, Baker throws a ball with great finesse into the endzone to be caught, with only 9 seconds remaining to tie the game.
Batsy has done it again.
The extra point is good, take a one-point lead, and the deed is done.
Baker has led another team back, he is the Hero of Gotham. The Hero of the NFL.
After the game players could not stop praising Baker, but be careful Baker….
“You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.”
- That same lawyer dude
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