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Baker Mayfield to make first start vs Raiders in
in Allgemeines 03.12.2019 03:16von zhangzk • 24 Beiträge
Oakland Shilique Calhoun Jersey , reminds Jon Gruden of Jeff Garcia Last Thursday night, Baker Mayfield entered the lineup for the Browns for the first time and captivated a primetime national audience. The number one overall pick came in for the injured Tyrod Taylor an ressurected a Browns offense that was floundering against the Jets. The exciting rookie led the Browns to their first win in two years. In the process he ignited Baker mania in Cleveland and setting the stage for him to make his first career start in Oakland this Sunday.The Raiders will have his hands full with Mayfield. With just that half of football of NFL tape along with a lot of highly successful college tape, earning him the 2017 Heisman Trophy. Gruden knows what he’s up against.“He just makes a lot of plays when nothing’s there. He makes plays when there is something there, the pocket it is clean, he can hit the open receivers,” Gruden said of Mayfield. Gruden likes his ‘Grinders’ and Mayfield has that in him. So much so that he invoked the name of a gritty quarterback who played under Gruden for his final two seasons in Tampa.“He has a lot of Jeff Garcia in him,” Gruden said of Mayfield. “He dives for first downs, he’ll extend plays. He’s got a really good competitive spirit about him. I love the way he plays. I know he’ll be really excited for his first career start. We’ve got to do a great job giving him some looks and getting some pressure on him.”Garcia earned his way into the NFL at the age of 29 after several years in the CFL. Garcia would play 11 seasons in the NFL, making four Pro Bowls. His final Pro Bowl coming under Gruden at the age of 37. So, that’s a hell of a compliment to Mayfield coming from Gruden.Even though Garcia hasn’t played in the NFL since 2009 — while Derek Carr was still in high school — he made the same comparison as his head coach. Though he swears he wasn’t copying him.“He reminds me of Jeff Garcia,” Carr said of Mayfield. “Just very athletic Connor Cook Jersey , very competitive, can make all the throws kind of a thing. He’s a really good player and I think the sky’s the limit for him. As long as he keeps his head down and keeps working, I think that he can do a lot of great things for their organization.”Coming out of college, Mayfield was compared a lot former Browns top pick Johnny Manziel, who was selected 14 spots ahead of Carr in the 2014 draft. Mayfield appears at this point to have the positive traits of Manziel without all the negative off the field traits.Make no mistake, Manziel was highly talented. He won a Heisman Trophy too. And Gruden sure liked him coming out of college. Mayfield will bring those abilities and excitement to Oakland on a team that Gruden noted could easily be 3-0 as opposed to 1-1-1 if they had a decent kicker the first two weeks. This is a very different Browns team from last season, that’s for sure. And Baker Mayfield’s presence takes them to another level.Follow @LeviDamien The NFL will stage four games in London and one in Mexico City next season, with the Jaguars, Chargers, Rams, Raiders and Buccaneers serving as hosts.When the games will be played and who the opponents will be won’t be announce until the spring AJ McCarron Jersey , when the league schedule for 2019 is released.The Jaguars have a deal to play annually in London. The Chargers, Rams and Raiders are considered to be playing in temporary stadiums — the Los Angeles teams will move into a new facility being built in Inglewood that won’t be ready next year — and the Raiders will be leaving Oakland for Las Vegas in 2020.Days after the Chiefs-Rams game scheduled for Azteca Stadium was moved to Los Angeles because of poor field conditions in November, the NFL announced it would be returning to play a regular-season game in Mexico City in 2019.This season had three games at Wembley Stadium in London — one of those was scheduled for Tottenham’s new stadium, but was switched to Wembley because the Spurs’ building was not ready. Previously, the NFL announced that two of the 2019 London games would be at Wembley, the other two at TottenhamEarlier this year, the Seahawks beat the Raiders 27-3, the Chargers defeated the Titans 20-19, and the Eagles beat the Jaguars 24-18.The NFL has played regular-season games in London since 2007. It played one in Mexico City in 2005, then not again until 2016 and ’17.
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