A look at Johnny Manziel as he gets set to make his Spring League debut:
- Manziel is scheduled to play roughly half of his team’s offensive snaps on Saturday coach Terry Shea tells ESPN.com’s Kevin Seifert. That’s going to be standard procedure for the league, which has eight quarterbacks spread out among its four teams. Manziel will play the first and third quarters for the South team on Saturday, while Cody Keith, who played at East Carolina and in the CFL, will handle the second and fourth quarters. Besides Manziel, former Titan Zach Mettenberger is the most notable quarterback in The Spring League.
- Recent comments by Manziel regarding his time with the Browns drew some criticism. “If Cleveland did any of their homework they would have known I wasn’t a guy who came in every day and watched film,” Manziel on The Dan Patrick Show (Twitter link). “I wasn’t a guy who really knew the X’s and O’s of football.”
- Those comments won’t hurt Manziel’s bid to return to the NFL, in the opinion of Mike Garafolo and Ian Rapoport of NFL.com (video link). Garafolo doesn’t believe that the former first-round pick was was trying to make excuses or shift blame, so it likely won’t be a strike against him with coaches. Manziel is reportedly willing to accept a practice squad deal with no money guaranteed if necessary, so it sounds like he has humbled himself and is willing to put in the work this time around.
Mayfield does watch a lot of film and DEF is an X and Os guy cause Rileys offense is built around advantages defenses give you with how they’re lined up.
but please lets just keep saying baker is this guy 2.0.
I never saw a playbook that didn’t contain X’s and O’s.
There have been a few NFL players that were blind in one eye (Wesley Walker of the Jets for example) so I imagine they were provided with something other than the standard X’s and O’s playbook.
Interesting. That would pose problems even on the field. No depth perception.
I wonder how he is with the rest of the alphabet?
I want to watch the Spring League. My daughter wants to watch the Cartoon Network. My wife wants both of us to understand there isn’t any difference.
Touche’
The team should have known I was going to be a Coke head. As much as I want to watch him play, he makes it increasingly difficult to root for him.
We need to quit this ‘he’s been humbled’ rhetoric. He cashed in on a first round contract and his family is loaded, he doesn’t need the money. Everything he’s said is calculated to a degree. If a team wanted him, they would’ve signed him by now. Instead of being humble he just understands that if he doesn’t play for nothing then he might never play again.
I don’t get how people write about him in a positive way. He never had transferable NFL talent, he said himself he’s not football smart, and he blew every opportunity handed to him. Plus he never really had to hit rock bottom because his family is loaded.
Omg why are we still talking about Jonny Manziel? He’s not even NFL rosterable, and never been good in the NFL. He’s not a story. Nothing he does can be. Treat him like any other failed NFL QB. God I hate when sites try to force their marketing down people’s throats.
At least Tebow achieved some level of success in the league. And worked his ass off. And didn’t have off the field issues.
I’ll take that circus over Manziel any day.
In addition, from what I’ve heard he’s supposedly a pretty good dude off the field. Tebow I’m speaking of.
Agreed
This site can’t force you to post a comment Bencole. If you object to news related to Manziel your not going to make it disappear by ranting about marketing. If anything, that will only ensure you see even more stories about the guy.
Johnny is a total POS.