The visiting team's locker room was quiet as they processed their overtime loss to the Falcons. PJ Walker's 62-yard, game-tying touchdown was called the "throw of the year'' by Patrick Mahomes and players were devastated at missed opportunities to win the game.
Brian Burns canceled his Halloween plans and declined postgame interviews for the first time all season because he was so down after the game.
A quarterback who didn't play a snap stood behind Pineiro as he stood against a cinder block wall to explain how he missed two field goals in overtime.
Baker was hurting more than the rest. He was on the verge of being irrelevant two years after he was about to become a top-tier quarterback.
There have been no signs that Baker will get the starting job back.
He was still able to lead.
Baker is having to deal with being healthy and a backup, and that is not an easy thing to deal with. "He's been as good of a leader as we've had on this team and he's been as good as anyone on the team.''
There is a person today.
When you peel back the persona that defined his career until now, you can see that this is the man who has been there.
He has never been exposed like this.
Despite Walker's disastrous first half in Sunday's 42-21 loss to the Cincinnati Bengal, the backup will remain. I've gone through a lot of things while playing ball. For the same reason, we're in this. Everyone wants to win. My experience and leadership should be used to do that.
Two years ago, he led the Cleveland Browns to an 11-5 regular-season record and a playoff victory. Analysts were comparing him to some of the best quarterbacks in the league.
The Houston Texans quarterback was traded for by the Cleveland Browns for quarterback Baker Mayfield.
As he approaches the end of his five-year contract with the Cleveland Indians, quarterback Baker Mayfield is unsure of his future in the National Football League. It's hard to believe that he's talking about it.
"I don't know if he'll ever get another chance, but I'm telling you, somebody has missed the boat on him.'' Is he the 10th best player in the NFL? I'm not sure. He's top half from an ability perspective.
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According to multiple league executive sources, the market for Mayfield will be minimal during the off-season, unless there's a huge improvement in the second half of the season. They think he'll get a one-year deal in the $5 million to $7 million range.
If Walker doesn't bounce back from Sunday's outing -- 3-of-10 passing for 9 yards, two picks and a 0.0 passer rating in the first half before being benched for Mayfield -- there's a chance the team will release him. Even if Walker doesn't come back.
The incentive is for Carolina to keep him on the bench. If Mayfield doesn't play 70% of the snaps, the Carolinas will get a fifth-round pick in the 2020 draft. He is around 60 percent.
The interim coach wants to see how Sam Darnold performs in Ben McAdoo's system. On Monday, he came off injured reserve and is working his way back from an ankle injury.
Nobody in the organization wants to talk about tanking for the first pick in 2023 to get a franchise quarterback.
While Walker will be the backup against Atlanta, there's a chance he will be inactive the next week against the Baltimore Ravens.
Drew Stanton was Baker's backup in Cleveland and said it was too bad what had happened to him. If you're not the starter, you don't get a lot of attention. Right now, the last impression he has is QBR. People have an image of that. He's aware of that.
After being a second-round pick out of Michigan State, Tyson started 17 games in 13 seasons in the National Football League. He did not play a down for the Lions, Colts, andCardinals.
He knows what it's like to be a starter and not see the field.
He doesn't think that's true for the man.
"I still believe that everything is in front of him, and I keep in touch with him,'' said Stanton. You don't know what you're going to get when you're in a situation like this in Carolina.
While players were on break and starting training camp from scratch with a new offensive coordinator and teammates, he referred to the trade of Mayfield to Carolina.
David Tepper didn't help the situation by firing Rhule after a 1-4 start.
"My message to him is to stay the same and be ready to go back in, because you never know, especially in that type of operation, when an opportunity will present itself,'' he said.
On Sunday, the opportunity presented itself when Carolina was behind 35 points. He threw for 155 yards and two touchdown. He scored three times.
That was not enough to get the job back.
It doesn't surprise those close to him that he hasn't gone off on Carolina's management as he did with Cleveland when he asked for a trade after the team pursued him.
He said that the perception of him was not who he was. If you respond to some of the comments that were made about him being immature or a bad teammate, there isn't much you can do.
Being his teammate is the real measure of who he is.
The Carolina players have seen that side of the man as he has embraced running the scout team while healthy.
He isn't putting himself over the team.
They know that he doesn't eat at him despite his team-first approach.
Walker said you can just tell. It is difficult. I'm sure he's sick because it's not always about body language.
The 2020 version of Mayfield was not the one that was plagued by an injured non- throwing shoulder.
Rhule was impressed with the way the competition for the starting job was won by the young man.
If you want to truly understand why Mayfield hasn't lived up to 2020 expectations, you need to go back to the year 2019. During that season, he threw 22 touchdown passes.
The team's struggles and the firing of Kitchens were caused by the turnovers.
If you dig deeper, you'll see that the completion percentage to Beckham and Landry was over 50%. His completion percentage was above average.
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10 of his 22 touchdown passes went to them, and 15 of his 21 picks were targeted at Beckham.
A source close to the quarterback said that he never got the time to develop a chemistry with Beckham and Landry because they were limited in practice by injuries.
"When you have a guy like Odell that can do so many different things, he's not necessarily just going to follow exactly what it says in the framework of the route because he understands how to get open." Everyone was trying to get it to work.
According to a source close to the situation, there was a lot of pressure on the staff to make sure Beckham and Landry were targets.
There were some in the organization who wanted to know why Beckham didn't have more than two catches after the Cleveland game.
The source said that he was under a lot of pressure to succeed in Cleveland. That slowed his growth. I don't know if I'm a believer in Baker. You are correct, I am. The percentage was one hundred percent.
Some work needs to be done.
The 2020 season will be under the leadership ofStefanski. The offensive line was beefed up after the quarterback was sacked 40 times in the season.
The power running game behind Nick Chubb and Kareem Hunt took the pressure off of his quarterback, who had a reputation for being most effective throwing deep.
There were 26 touchdown passes and eight intercepts. He had two 1,000-yard receiving and running backs. His Total QBR was second best in the league to the Green Bay Packers. There were 13 touchdown passes off play-action passes by the man.
The second best in the league in terms of yards per attempt off a designated run in 2020 and outside the pocket was by the Texans' Deshaun.
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The quarterback under center percentage was fourth highest in the league, and the designated rush percentage was fourth highest. They used two tight ends on the field more than any other team in the league. They had 70 catches and seven touchdown.
The panthers haven't used Mayfield in a similar way. Through Week 5, they were 26th in rush percentage, 14th in quarterback under center, and 22nd with 14 plays per game with two tight ends. In five starts, the tight ends had only 14 catches.
As a result, Mayfield had a 50.5 Total QBR on play-action, which ranked 22nd, and only seven designed runs for an average of 6.0 yards per pass, which ranked 17th.
The Carolinas traded the best dual-threat running back in the league to the San Francisco 49ers.
Baker is at his best when he moves in the pocket. Ben McAdoo likes a quick passing game and likes to take pressure off the offensive line.
McAdoo will not say that Mayfield failed.
Baker has continued. He said that Baker was hurt in the fifth game of his 1-4 start. Those questions are better for the coach than I am. He has final say on things.
Baker is a huge help to us. Before the injury, he had some good moments.
After Walker's game-tying touchdown against Atlanta that had a 12% chance of being completed, no one was more excited for him than Baker. He kissed Walker's helmet after rushing to Walker.
In the locker room with Pineiro, there was more about the character of the player.
After the first miss, you could see the expression on his face. He didn't want to be in that position but he was. I was there to make sure he knew we were behind him.
When the conversation turned to his situation, he showed more character.
How hard it has been for Sam is what's lost in this whole thing. It has been difficult, but we support each other.
The 4-7 starter last season says that he has been supported by the 6-1 one.
When he was the starter at Cleveland or in college at Oklahoma, the side without the chip on his shoulder that he never really had to show, was the side that many people didn't know about.
Baker likes to poke and prod with you guys in the media. He's been a good teammate.
If he is put in the right situation, which won't be with Carolina, he will survive this fall from fame. Team officials don't see him as the long-term solution despite his professionalism as the backup.
"I'm proud of the way he's handling himself, because it's not like he's doing it for the camera, that he's blowing a bunch of hot air.'' He's who he is.
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