Texas Football: Colin Cowherd calls rival QB Baker Mayfield ‘cocky’

A constant media battle that takes place between former Texas football rival QB Baker Mayfield and Colin Cowherd continued on Dec. 23.

A former rival quarterback of the Texas football program, that is also one of the most hated Oklahoma Sooners football players in history, is also a Heisman trophy winner Baker Mayfield. Texas fans surely don’t see Baker in a positive light after he spent his two years since leaving Norman still bashing this program. He’s about the most petty quarterback in recent memory to come out of the Oklahoma program that always seems to carry a chip on his shoulder.

However, Mayfield wasn’t involved in talking about the Texas Longhorns football program in the slightest regard in his latest heated moment with the media. This incident with the media did trace back to a long beef that Mayfield has with a certainty personality on Fox Sports.

Now, I’m not saying in the slightest bit that Colin Cowherd is correct in most of the stuff he has to say on the subject of college football. He’s surely been one of the more controversial and outspoken figures in the world of sports media within the last four or five years.

Cowherd had some harsh words for Mayfield on his radio show on Dec. 23. That moment came after Mayfield was caught in a battle with his own fans in Cleveland Week 16 of the NFL’s regular season.

Mayfield clapped back to Cowherd’s jab on his radio show but responding to a Fox Sports Radio Tweet on the same day. He seems to carry a similar attitude to how he did in past scuffles with Cowherd over the course of the last year.

Cowherd and Mayfield definitely don’t like each other, with the following posts on social media highlighting just a few examples of their past beef.

At one point, Cowherd even called Baker “undraftable”.

Since all this beef between Cowherd and Baker highlights a bigger narrative that Mayfield has in the media that involved the Longhorns in the past, this is a pattern worth noticing. Mayfield calls out his disliking of the Longhorns regularly, even though he’s playing for the Cleveland Browns in the NFL now.

Yet, if there is one thing that Cowherd is right about, it is the arrogance and cockiness that Mayfield brings to the table for both the Browns and dating back to his days as a Sooner. There’s ample proof of the chip he carries on his shoulder in that regard.

After their Week 16 loss at the hands of the Baltimore Ravens by the final score of 31-15, the Browns moved to a record of 6-9 on the season. The Browns were the NFL’s only team in the last decade to not post a single winning record in any individual season.

All the hype that was building around Mayfield and the Browns heading into the 2019 regular season turned out not to be warranted. Entering what looks to be a tumultuous offseason in Cleveland, Mayfield could be facing all sorts of criticism before his third-year in the arrives.