As the Week 1 matchup between the Cleveland Browns and Carolina Panthers inches closer, Baker Mayfield is still saying all the right things. But that doesn’t mean that everyone is believing them.

The former Browns quarterback recently promoted some T-shirts on his Twitter, but claimed that he had nothing to do with them. He also said that this isn’t a revenge game for him.

You sure about that, Baker?

Andy Baskin and Daryl Ruiter of Audacy’s “It’s Always Gameday in Cleveland” podcast talked about Mayfield’s fashion designs and recent comments heading into Week 1.

“Baker’s fashion designers came up with some Week 1 T-shirts,” Ruiter said (3:01 in player above). “This is not the local Cleveland T-shirt economy. These are Baker’s people that did this. As he said, he didn’t realize the T-shirts were that big of a deal, but when you blast it out on your social media channels, sorry Baker, it’s going to get a little attention.”

Mayfield had turned his social media handles over to his marketing team, and it’s possible that they still have control of his accounts, but that doesn’t change much. Mayfield was asked about the T-shirts this week.

“Oh, man, I wish I could say I came up with the T-shirts,” Mayfield told reporters in Charlotte Wednesday afternoon. “Got a good team behind me and they put a few little hidden messages of like just my history, subliminal stuff in there. They do a good job and I just think people back home and people that have been following me for a long time like it. It’s just a fun thing to do.”

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“I didn't have any say in it,” Mayfield said of the design. “You know, I don't get paid to make T-shirts. I get paid to play football and have fun with my buddies. So that's what I'm doing.”

While Mayfield claims that he’s just having fun and doesn’t have anything to do with the design, Baskin and Ruiter aren’t buying it.

“Remember how I would keep saying that I feel like Baker is surrounded by people that do very little to help him? This is Exhibit A of it,” Ruiter said. “This really is.”

“I think he’s lying,” Baskin replied. “First of all, when we talk about agents making decisions for players, that’s not the case. Agents don't make decisions for players. Players make the decisions and agents can either be a good guy or bad guy for the player, they’re a buffer. In this case, the T-shirts say ‘Unleashed’ and have a collar on them, harkening back to his days in Cleveland, and that’s fine if you want to have fun with it. Don’t sit here – and I’m telling you I like Baker Mayfield – don’t tell me you have nothing to do with it. Don’t tell me you didn’t see that before it went out. Come on.”

The issue isn’t with what Mayfield is doing, but rather with how he is going about it. If he wants to have fun and promote some shirts, go for it. But he has to own it.

“Just own it! Who cares, just own it,” Baskin said. “Why do you have to hide behind your marketing guys on that? If they’re your marketing guys and they approved it, you approved it. There’s no question on that. Why are we playing this game? Baker, these are your guys. Do you pay them? OK. Are you going to make some T-shirts? OK. Are you going to poke fun at what you did before? OK. Don’t sit here and tell me you had no say in this. That’s complete bullcrap.”

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