It may be an AFC divisional game between the Kansas City Chiefs and Cleveland Browns to most, but Sunday s game (3:05 p.m. ET, CBS) is unofficially the Kliff Kingsbury Bowl.
Kingsbury, now head coach of the Arizona Cardinals, coached both starting quarterbacks Kansas City s Patrick Mahomes and Cleveland s Baker Mayfield in consecutive seasons as head coach at Texas Tech.
When the two former Red Raiders square off for a chance to play in the AFC Championship Game, Kingsbury will sit back and relish the moment. It s kind of like being a big brother, I guess, Kingsbury said. I just sit back as a fan now and try to enjoy the success those guys are having. Just to be around those guys, have a small part in anything that they ve been able to become as a quarterback, I take a lot of pride in that and those guys know that.
BEREA, Ohio While on the road recruiting seven years ago, Bob Stoops kept hearing the same strange rumor that Baker Mayfield, then a freshman at Texas Tech, was transferring to Oklahoma. I m like, well, he hadn t called me, I hadn t heard from him, Stoops recalled. And then I asked my coaches, any of you guys heard from Baker Mayfield? I hear he s coming to OU. And no one had heard. I said, Well, we ll see when we get back from break if he s here.
Sure enough, Mayfield showed up to Norman from Lubbock, unannounced and uninvited. He then proceeded to do what he has always done first, he won over his teammates, then he led them to wins on the field.
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