CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Carolina Panthers quarterback Baker Mayfield said Wednesday that he very much wants to beat his former team, the Cleveland Browns, when the teams meet on opening day, but says a conversation with an NFL Network reporter has been blown out of proportion.
“Everybody’s going to write whatever story they want, there’s history that I played there the last four years,” Mayfield said Wednesday. “I’m an extremely competitive person, everybody knows that. If I wasn’t wanting to win, that’d be a really big issue, me being the quarterback here. I want to win at everything I do. That’ll never change.”
But did the quarterback, whom the Panthers acquired via trade from the Brown this summer, tell Buffalo Bills sideline reporter Cynthia Frelund that “I’m gonna [expletive] them up”?
