BEREA, Ohio -- Baker Mayfield may have caught the Jets off guard -- the contention of New York safety Jamal Adams -- but the Raiders claim they'll be ready on Sunday.

There will be no surprise attack this week, say the 0-3 Raiders and new coach Jon Gruden, who's an expert in all things QB.

Browns coach Hue Jackson, who goes way, way back with Gruden to when they were both at the University of Pacific in the late '80s, knows a winless start won't prevent the Raiders from gunning for the Browns' rookie QB in the Black Hole.

"(Gruden's) extremely competitive, and he does not like losing, no more than I didn't like losing,'' Jackson said. "Trust me, he's going to get his football team ready to go. We have to be ready to play.''

Oakland has an accomplished defensive coordinator in Paul Guenther, who spent the previous 13 seasons in Cincinnati. Jackson worked with Guenther for four years, and saw Bengals defenses hold QBs to a league-low 80.1 rating over the past four years.

"Oh, absolutely no doubt,'' said Jackson. "I think (Mayfield) gets that. The game is going to change for him a little bit. People will start preparing for him more, but we feel like we do a good job as an offensive unit of preparing him and preparing our offensive team for what could happen.

"This guy is no finished product by any stretch, but he works at it and it's important to him, and I think it is important to his teammates."

Adams made headlines this week when he told WFAN that the Jets weren't prepared for Mayfield, who rallied the Browns from a 14-point second-quarter deficit to win 21-17. On Wednesday, Adams told New York reporters that he wasn't ripping the coaches. Coach Todd Bowles said the safety misspoke, but the damage was already somewhat done.

"We didn't see it happening. I'm just being honest," Adams said. "We had to be open to knowing that Baker could come in, but we were prepared for Tyrod (Taylor). When Baker came in, obviously we didn't have a game plan for him. But hats off to him. He came in, he definitely played lights out. They gained momentum and we just couldn't grab it back."

The remarks were contrary to what Bowles said after the game, that the momentum shift in the second quarter was more about the Jets' penalties than anything.

On a conference call yesterday, Gruden indicated that the Jets were prepared for Mayfield even in the short week.

"You always have to be ready for the backup quarterback,'' he said. "Doesn't matter if you have one day to get ready or a month to get ready.''

He stressed that his team, which will likely dig back into Mayfield's Oklahoma film, will certainly be ready.

"Mayfield is a guy that can scramble and extend plays,'' he said. "You better know that. You better know that some of the great plays that Mayfield has made at Oklahoma and has made as a Cleveland Brown are scramble plays. He does an excellent job keeping plays alive. He has incredible vision down the field.

"That guy has eyes on the back of his head. You have to know that he's a great creative player. ... You better get to know (Antonio) Callaway. He's a problem for people. (Jarvis) Landry has been a problem for a lot of people around the league an Duke Johnson. They have some arsenal in this system that can do damage."

Despite what Gruden and Guenther saw on film from the Jets game, they can expect some new wrinkles. Like most rookies who are successful in the NFL these days, Mayfield will be given a gameplan that plays to his strengths and possibly even borrows a play or two from his Oklahoma playbook.

"It's important anytime - I do not care who plays quarterback - to put them in position to be successful, and that's what we're going to do,'' Jackson said. "(Offensive coordinator) Todd (Haley), the rest of the offensive staff ... our job is to make sure we give Baker the best chance to have success with this offense, whatever that means."

Linebacker Joe Schobert knows what's going on inside the defensive meeting rooms as the Raiders prepare for a rookie making his first NFL start.

"I think they'll be as ready as an NFL team should be coming into a big-time game on Sunday,'' he said. "In their situation this year, they're really gunning for a win and they're looking at us as a great opportunity to get that win, and we're going to go there and try to start our streak of stringing some wins together."

Said Jarvis Landry: "Listen, these guys, Oakland, they're going to compete. They're going to play their defense. They're going to play their style of football, and we have to go out there and do the same thing. We've got to go play our style of football, execute, play at a high level and make the plays. That's it."

Just as the Browns did last week for Sam Darnold, the Raiders will try to disguise their calls.

"You try to get in their face and confuse them, show them different looks to maybe make them make mistakes,'' Schobert said. "Sometimes rookie quarterbacks can handle it and sometimes they can't, but that's always the goal.''

The thing that makes Mayfield unique is his arm talent, Schobert said.

"Baker has great arm strength, so he can really whip the ball in there and make some throws across the field with velocity that maybe defenders aren't seeing day in and day out which makes it harder to catch and harder to make a play on the ball and anticipate things,'' said Schobert. "He's a little bit of a gunslinger.

"He likes to get back there and throw it in there and take chances. Obviously taking chances in the NFL can go one way and go the other way, but ... if he keeps progressing, I think he's going to be great for us.''