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What does it have to take for a prospective NFL player to hang up the phone on an agent who negotiated the NFL’s first $100 million contract (Brett Favre)? How big of an asshole does the man who helped Calvin Johnson secure $60 million in guaranteed money just a couple years before he retired have to be for someone whose never thrown a pass in the league to say ‘fuck off’? Well folks, we’re talking about Baker Mayfield here. ‘Fuck off’ was probably his first words as a baby.
During the latest episode of the docu-series “Behind Baker,” Mayfield recalled a funny story about a brief phone call he had with Bus Cook, an NFL agent whose represented big names like Brett Favre, Cam Newton, and Jadeveon Clowney. Cook has reportedly secured his clients well over $1 billion in combined contract money. So, most NFL prospects would be bowing down to this man. Baker had a different experience.
“Bus Cook, Brett Favre’s agent, great story. Every agent does the same thing, they give their résumé, what they’re about, all this stuff,” Mayfield said. “Finally, when he was about to give me a chance to talk, he asked, ‘So, when did Bob Stoops start recruiting you?’ And I said ‘Excuse me?’ and then he repeated the question.”
As we know, Mayfield first walked-on as a freshman at Texas Tech in 2013 before tranferring and walking on to Oklahoma team the following year (he was forced to sit out until 2015 for eligibility reasons). Bob Stoops was never recruiting Baker Mayfield.
“I just said ‘I gotta go’ and then I hung up. It’s like, if you’re going to pursue a guy and say that you want him and you want to be that guy that’s going to be there for him, why not do your research?”
Cook isn’t hurting for cash so representing Mayfield wasn’t imperative, but any Tom, Dick or Jerry off the street knows that Mayfield is a two-time walk on. Be better, Bus. You rich, rich space cadet.
[h/t Die Hards]