Browns player believes Mike McCarthy would be good fit with Mayfield

One member of the Cleveland Browns has some experience playing under former Green Bay Packers coach Mike McCarthy, and he certainly believes it would be beneficial to bring him in.

Browns center JC Tretter played for McCarthy as a Packer from 2013 to 2016. He’s a firm believer in McCarthy’s abilities despite how badly the coach’s Green Bay tenure ended, and he thinks it would be greatly beneficial for quarterback Baker Mayfield.

“I think they’d do great,” Tretter said, via Mary Kay Cabot of cleveland.com. “He started working with Aaron (Rodgers) when Aaron was a rookie too and Aaron’s developed into a hell of a player so I think that relationship would be fine. I see a lot of similarities between Aaron and Baker personalty-wise, competitiveness, and that’s all the things that Aaron came in with too when he was a young player, so I think they’d work well together.”

One of the big reasons the Browns changed coaches was for the benefit of Mayfield, who has flourished since Hue Jackson’s removal. Their next coach will be tasked with continuing that growth. That, along with McCarthy’s ties to Browns GM John Dorsey, makes him a strong early candidate for the position.