Baker Mayfield Reignited His Feud With Colin Cowherd And Handed Him Another L After Coming To The Defense Of Odell Beckham Jr.

When you make the difficult decision to get paid way too much money to play a sport for a living, you do so knowing you’re going to be under a microscope and at the receiving end of criticism from people who get paid way too much money to talk about sports for a living.

In a perfect world, you could use stacks of $100 bills as earmuffs to keep the haters at bay but biting your tongue can be easier said than done when you’re being scalded alive by hot takes being lobbed in your general direction.

Baker Mayfield has found himself at the center of a number of overblown controversies ranging back to his college days, where he expertly rustled jimmies by grabbing his crotch and planting an Oklahoma flag in the middle of Ohio State’s field during his days with the Sooners.

Thanks to incidents like that, Mayfield became a natural target for talking heads like Colin Cowherd, a man who needs to dish out scathingly dumb opinions to live like a shark needs to keep swimming.

On Thursday, Cowherd decided it’d be a good idea to put Odell Beckham Jr. on blast and suffered the same fate after the Browns wide receiver pulled out the receipts.

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Beckham didn’t really need much help defending himself thanks to the ammunition he had on hand but that didn’t stop Mayfield from entering the fray and firing a shot of his own.

You knew it was only a matter of time until Cowherd came out of his hole and he did so in the most insufferable way possible.

Thankfully, Mayfield was ready with a couple more blows.

Mayfield and Cowherd aren’t exactly best buds and have a bit of a history thanks to a couple of recent incidents where the quarterback had no problem putting the blowhard on blast—including another time the radio host targeted Beckham.

Take more Ls, Colin. You can’t.

[Total Pro Sports]