We should have seen Baker Mayfield's 2019 disaster coming.
Not because of Freddie Kitchens; not because of Mayfield's talent; not because of the potential for dysfunction in the lockerroom.
But if we had paid attention to the teams Mayfield had faced in 2018 when he made his massive stretch run, we may have realized that a sophomore slump was fully in the range of outcomes.
The split that sucked us all into Mayfield was from Week 9 on, after Hue Jackson got the boot. It was an eight-game stretch, and it made sense to look at this sample because it was when Kitchens started calling plays.