So Johnny Manziel was named the starting quarterback for the Cleveland Browns' last four games. He's made 3 starts this season going 1-2 and his stats this year are 933 yards, (712 in those starts) 5 touchdowns 2 interceptions, and a completion percentage of 59.4% which isn't that bad. In fact in his last start, which was against Pittsburgh, Johnny threw for 372 yards and a touchdown while completing 73.3% of his passes. Now I know people don't like him because they think he's too cocky or because he goes out and parties, but I think all that is way too overblown. Guarantee nobody would know about 90% of his antics if this was even 10 years ago. If you put players from past era's into 2015, do you know how much of this shit would be happening? A lot of it. Could you imagine the Cocaine Cowboys with social media? Even Brett Favre, great football player, but he's been accused of cheating on his wife a lot, and there are stories that Favre would be out drinking before game day regularly, Johnny parties a little on his bye week and big bad Pettine demotes him to third string. Now personally I do not think Cleveland and Johnny are a good fit, literally anywhere else would be a better fit, owner Jim Irsay pushed for him to be drafted, and Mike Pettine really seems to hate Money Manziel. Pettine would be that high school coach that tells you a drop of alcohol would cause you to lose a weeks worth of training or some bullshit like that. Also the Browns have no receivers, a bad line outside of Joe Thomas, no running game, and a defense that everyone keeps expecting to be good that just sucks. Manziel likely won't be the human highlight reel he was in college in the NFL, but football is a team game and he's been doing pretty good with minimal support. Quick point, I also think Dallas would be a terrible place for Johnny, so anywhere but Dallas and Cleveland. I think he simply needs time to continue to adjust to the NFL game, guys twice his size are just as fast, the playbook is 500 times as thick, he's gotta earn respect from the vets, and so on. Also I think he needs a coach who's going to want him and support him and back him to the media or whoever, not Mike who looks for any reason to not play him, and is so back and forth and won't pump him up too much when he actually deserves it. Now I don't know what their relationship is like off camera, but I can't imagine it's that great. You know why Manziel ripped the SEC apart for two years? He was confident and Kevin Sumlin was behind him 100%, he allowed Manziel to be himself and thrive. As for what we can expect from Money Manziel these last four weeks (barring another Pettine change of heart) probably not a ton. They play the 49ers, Seahawks, Chiefs, and Steelers. I think he'll do well against San Fran, maybe 200+ yards and 2 TDs. Seattle will probably be just brutal, he'll probably be under a lot of pressure and the dumpster fire that is the Cleveland receiving corps will struggle to get open. Kansas City has a good defense but again maybe a 150-250 yard game and a TD or maybe two. I think he can go 300+ on Pittsburgh at home, the Steelers have given up some big games to quarterbacks, and he already did it. Then we'll see what happens in the offseason regarding Manziel and Cleveland. If it's not going to work out there I have a couple places I'd like to see him.
New York Jets, he'd have good receivers, especially in Brandon Marshall and Eric Decker, and they need a qb, and I think he'd be the playmaker on offense the Jets need to take the next step. The NY media concerns me though, they'd hound him like no other and if he struggles they'd crush him.
St. Louis, Todd Gurley, a solid defense, not to mention the Ram's greatly need a qb and the Manziel to Tavon Austin deep connection would be much better than Manziel to Benjamin now.
Kansas City, Andy Reid is known to be good with quarterbacks, and Alex Smith is good but at this point in his career has proven he won't be anything special, and Johnny is a high risk/potentially high reward option that could help the Chiefs going forward.
Washington Redskins, eh maybe not, but I just thought about Austin-Manziel deep connection, imagine Johnny just rolling out and firing downfield to D-JAX, unstoppable.
Thats really it, I could've said Green Bay because I'd love it and he could learn a lot from Aaron Rodgers and Mike McCarthy, or Houston because they need a quarterback, but JJ Watt is such a tool, that dynamic between him and Johnny would be poor at best. I'd just like to point out that everyone is all over Johnny all the time, but number one pick Jadeveion Clowney had been a huge bust, he was supposed to be the next dominant pass rusher but he's been either hurt or sucking.
#TBT some of the best Manziel moments from A&M
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