BEREA, Ohio — Baker Mayfield chewed out his receivers after a failed scramble drill during Saturday’s practice — complete with a thundering F-bomb that reverberated throughout the practice fields.

It was so loud that some observers thought it must have been a coach. But no, it Mayfield bellowing at his receivers to come back to the ball when the protection broke down.

Freddie Kitchens, who’s chewed out his players several times in the first three days of camp, was totally cool with it.

“I don’t know if they responded to him or not, but yeah, I expect my quarterback to get everybody on the same page,’’ he said. “That’s what I want.”

Kitchens noted that he called out his teammates a time or two when he was the quarterback at Alabama.

“Yeah, I think so,’’ he said. “I think you could ask some of my friends and ask them. ... Probably too much.”

Kitchens wants Mayfield to be himself, even if it means screaming his head off.

“You have different leaders,’’ he said. “If he wanted to say something, he said something. It doesn’t matter to me. It’s just whatever he wants to do. I know they need to be on the same page. I don’t care how it gets done. That’s their job. I’m going to do my job, and everybody needs to do their job.

“Whether it’s a coach, another player or another player in the same room, I don’t care how it’s done. I just want it corrected. I’m about the result, not the want to or the should have. Just make the play. Just do your job.”

He said he hasn’t encouraged Mayfield to be more of a vocal leader, especially considering the strong personalities on the team. But running back Nick Chubb welcomed the rant.

“It gets us going,’’ he said. “Somebody calls someone out, no matter if it was our right tackle, he says the same thing, we’re gonna respond. We’re all for each other and if he wants something changed like that, we’re gonna fix it, we’re gonna get it right for him. It wasn’t like he was out of place. He said exactly what needed to be done. We’re the ones running with him. We needed that.”

Chubb said the skill players have to stay on their toes with Mayfield’s improvisational skills.

“Baker, man, he’s tricky as hell,’’ said Chubb. “He’ll flip sides on you real quick so you gotta know what he’s gonna do and be there for him.”

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