Baker Mayfield wants to beat the Cleveland Browns in Week 1 when he makes his debut as the starting quarterback for the Carolina Panthers, but he denies making vulgar remarks about his former team.

Mayfield denies saying he wants to "f--- them up" after last week's preseason finale against the Buffalo Bills.

That contradicted what NFL Network analyst Cynthia Frelund shared on Monday night's "Around the NFL" podcast.

Frelund shared on the podcast and repeated that she talked to Mayfield after the Panthers' 21-0 victory and said that Mayfield repeated her words when she playfully told him to "f--- them up."

Mayfield denied making any such comment about the team that made him the top pick of the 2018 draft.

"First, I didn't say it," said Mayfield, who spent the past four years in Cleveland. "Everybody is going to write whatever story they want. There's history because I played there the last four years. I'm an extremely competitive person. Everybody knows that. If I wasn't wanting to win, then there would be a really big issue of me being the quarterback here.

"I want to win in everything I do. That'll never change. But it's not how I phrased it. It's not even what I said, so let's leave it at that."