SPARTANBURG — Tuesday seemed odd when newly acquired Carolina Panthers quarterback Baker Mayfield In a truck driven to Wofford College by a linebacker, I was taken to training camp. Shaq Thompson.
We now understand why.
Smack talk.
Or “messy talk”, as Thompson described Friday, when explaining the reasons for the former Cleveland Browns Star was his passenger on the 90-minute trip from Charlotte, North Carolina to star.
“Bake sent me and DJax a text message. [Donte Jackson] Thompson said, “Talking about some mess.” “We were just going in and out. We were just going to the same place at what time? He replied, “Carpool?” He was like, ‘Carpool?’ I replied.
What was the “mess?”
Thompson, who started training camp on the physically incapacitated list following minor offseason knee surgery, said: “That’s for my to know, and y’all just want to ask questions.”
Mayfield is well known for his “trash talking”, or talking about mess. He was a generous speaker. small sample It was Thompson who said that Thompson uses his blinker “everywhere” when they arrived at camp.
Mayfield again displayed some of his edginess Tuesday, when he playedfully shouted for a Cleveland Browns fan to “put that jersey aside.”
Mayfield said he didn’t like the Browns after a woman drove her son to Spartanburg, Ohio.
There was also the 2017 college match between Mayfield’s Oklahoma Sooners team and the Baylor Bears, coached by Matt Rhule (now the Panthers’ head coach). After a pregame scuffle Mayfield stated to Baylor players that he had forgotten who his daddy was. You’re going to be spanked.
Thompson doesn’t mind that Mayfield is known for speaking “mess”. Thompson compared Mayfield to Cam Newton, a former Panthers quarterback who spoke trash every day, especially in training camp.
In 2015, Thompson was in his rookie season. Newton, Thompson, and the cornerback completed their first season. Josh Norman The two talked so much trash that they got into a fight in training camp after Norman intercepted Norman’s eventual NFL MVP.
Thompson spoke highly of Mayfield, saying that he was “competitive”. Cam was like that in 2015. Cam was competitive. He talked chaos, him, and TD. [Thomas Davis]. All of us are competitors.
“I love a guy who talks trash. We’re going talk trash back to each other. We don’t care if it’s low or high blows. “At the end of it all, we are football players.
Carolina wide receiver Robbie Anderson When he tweeted “Nooooo!” to the initial news about the Panthers’ interest in Mayfield, he wasn’t saying anything negative.
Later, he said that he was only standing up for his current quarterback. Sam Darnold. Anderson was asked Friday whether he and Mayfield had the chance to discuss that, now that Darnold and Mayfield are competing for the job.
He replied, “No.” “That’s almost like water under the bridge.”
Anderson wasn’t interested in knowing how Darnold was different from Mayfield.
“One is Baker and one is Sam,” he stated. “I won’t give you a summary of their personalities.
Anderson explained the reason he changed his first initial from Robby to Robbie in the offseason.
Anderson stated, “That’s how it was spelled when I was younger,” adding that he changed his initial name to Robby before going to college. “But it’s a nice way to write it. ”