Baker Mayfield has apologized to Daniel Jones. That’s good. Let’s hope that Mayfield also apologized to Lincoln Riley and Joe Castiglione.
Mayfield made news this week when GQ magazine published an interview with Mayfield in which the Cleveland Browns quarterback ripped the New York Giants for drafting quarterback Daniel Jones and said his 2017 flag-planting at Ohio State was coerced by OU officials.
There comes a time when young men need to grow up, and for Mayfield, that time is now. Or last year, when the Browns made him the face of their beleaguered franchise. Being interesting is good. Being provocative is OK. Being a rascal who makes enemies is silly in the hardened world of pro football.
After OU won 31-16 at Ohio State on September 9, 2017, Mayfield famously planted a Sooner flag on the Ohio Stadium turf. He issued an apology a few days later – which frankly, in Mayfield’s defense, wasn’t necessary. Who cares, so long as Mayfield didn’t damage any Buckeye facilities and didn’t instigate any conflicts with fans or players? I always thought too much was made of the Oklahoma tradition of stakes-claiming, which goes back to the Land Run and is replicated in the Cotton Bowl when OU happens to beat Texas.
But still, it became a big deal, OU officials – I assume athletic director Castiglione and perhaps then-president David Boren – thought an apology was in order, maybe for public relations reasons only, so Mayfield issued one.
Then a few days later, Riley said that the apology was Mayfield’s idea.
Maybe it wasn’t, maybe it was. Probably wasn’t, knowing Mayfield. So Riley very well could have been lying, which is a good lesson for Riley but sort of beside the point on this discussion. Riley stuck up for Mayfield. Always did, really, even after that notorious crotch-grabbing incident at Kansas later in the season.
https://oklahoman.com/article/5639239/has-mayfield-apologized-to-lincoln-riley-joe-castiglione
2019-08-22 13:47:28Z
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