{"id":693230,"date":"2026-01-21T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T08:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/693230\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T08:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T08:00:13","slug":"baker-mayfield-slams-falcons-hc-kevin-stefanski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/693230\/","title":{"rendered":"Baker Mayfield slams Falcons&#8217; HC Kevin Stefanski"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"md\">Tampa Bay quarterback Baker Mayfield <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/bakermayfield\/status\/2013758960994787523?s=20\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\" rel=\"nofollow\">said on social media<\/a>\u00a0Tuesday that he never heard from coach Kevin Stefanski after\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/carolina-panthers-cleveland-browns-nfl-sports-5b7890a8c85609255c012d7a87342214?utm_source=copy&amp;utm_medium=share\" style=\"font-size: 16px;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland traded him to Carolina<\/a>\u00a0in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Now the two are in the NFC South after\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/falcons-stefanski-coach-f44529906ac1926fb9a8dbb9815a3fdd?utm_source=copy&amp;utm_medium=share\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Atlanta hired Stefanski<\/a>\u00a0on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStill waiting on a text\/call from him after I got shipped off like a piece of garbage,\u201d Mayfield posted. \u201cCan\u2019t wait to see you twice a year, Coach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Browns drafted Mayfield, a Heisman Trophy winner at Oklahoma, first overall in 2018. He played four seasons in Cleveland, passing for 3,725 yards in his first season and throwing and a then-NFL rookie record 27 touchdown passes. In Stefanski&#8217;s first season in 2020, Mayfield led the Browns to the playoffs for the first time in 17 years and their first postseason victory in 26 seasons.<\/p>\n<p>But Mayfield also struggled with consistency \u2014 throwing 22 TD passes and 21 interceptions in 2019 \u2014 and wasn&#8217;t afraid to confront critics of his play.<\/p>\n<p>After being traded to the Panthers, Mayfield found his career at a crossroads. He revived it in Tampa Bay, leading the Buccaneers to the playoffs in 2023 and 2024 before a late-season collapse that kept the Bucs out of this year&#8217;s postseason.<\/p>\n<p>Stefanski coached the Browns for six years before he\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/browns-stefanski-watson-sanders-haslam-616f4cb2b382d8b81398c38680a8f604?utm_source=copy&amp;utm_medium=share\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">was fired after this season<\/a>. The Falcons hired him less than two weeks later.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tampa Bay quarterback Baker Mayfield said on social media\u00a0Tuesday that he never heard from coach Kevin Stefanski after\u00a0Cleveland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2075],"tags":[235,260,2567,7,6,236],"class_list":{"0":"post-693230","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-carolina-panthers","8":"tag-carolina","9":"tag-carolina-panthers","10":"tag-carolinapanthers","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-nfl","13":"tag-panthers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}