{"id":433538,"date":"2026-01-27T22:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T22:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/433538\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T22:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T22:03:07","slug":"kevin-stefanski-on-baker-mayfields-comments-great-player-excited-for-rivalry-with-the-buccaneers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/433538\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Stefanski on Baker Mayfield’s comments: Great player, excited for rivalry with the Buccaneers"},"content":{"rendered":"

After Kevin Stefanski was hired by the Falcons, one of his former Browns players took notice of a tweet referencing the team\u2019s revolving door of quarterbacks during Stefanski\u2019s tenure. <\/p>\n

Baker Mayfield was the starting quarterback when Stefanski was hired as the head coach in Cleveland in 2020 and the two men guided the Browns to the divisional round of the playoffs that year, which is likely why Mayfield took issue<\/a> with being called a failure and part of a \u201cdumpster fire\u201d at the position. Mayfield was traded to the Panthers after the Browns missed the playoffs in 2021 and went on to say he\u2019s \u201cstill waiting\u201d to hear from Stefanski after being \u201cshipped off like a piece of garbage.\u201d <\/p>\n

Mayfield closed by saying that he\u2019s looking forward to facing Stefanski twice a year. During an introductory press conference<\/a> in Atlanta on Tuesday, Stefanski was asked for his response to Mayfield\u2019s comments. <\/p>\n

\u201cBaker\u2019s somebody that I have a ton of respect for as a player and a person,\u201d Stefanski said. \u201cI love rivalries in sports, and, obviously, Buccaneers-Falcons have a great rivalry. It\u2019s something that I\u2019m excited about. I would not get into the specifics of those type of things, other than to say I have a ton of respect for Baker as a player, as a person. That\u2019s a great team with a great player.\u201d<\/p>\n

We don\u2019t know when the Bucs and Falcons will play each other during the 2026 season, but both Mayfield and Stefanski are likely to field more questions about each other in the days leading up to their first matchup. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After Kevin Stefanski was hired by the Falcons, one of his former Browns players took notice of a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-433538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}