Johnny Manziel will now be on a second Canadian Football League franchise in his first season up north. The Hamilton Tiger-Cats agreed to trade the former NFL first-rounder to the Montreal Alouettes, Duane Forde of TSN reports (on Twitter).
This is a five-player deal, per Forde (on Twitter), but one that will send the one-time Browns bust to a place where he figures to have a better chance of seeing playing time.
The coach who recruited Manziel to Texas A&M, Mike Sherman, serves as Montreal’s head coach. Though Sherman was not the Aggies’ coach during Manziel’s Heisman Trophy season in 2012, he was on board during the quarterback’s redshirt season in ’11.
The Alouettes have already tried three quarterbacks — Drew Willy, Jeff Mathews and Matt Shiltz — this season, and as PFT’s Michael David Smith points out, currently sport the CFL’s worst offense. The Tiger-Cats have used just one passer, Jeremiah Masoli, all season. Thirteen games remain on the Alouettes’ docket.
Manziel’s CFL contract runs through the 2019 season.
Johnny Canadian Football
Mike Sherman still coaching football. Was wondering where he went. Interesting…
The fact that Sherman is coaching is more likely why their offense is the worst in the CFL rather than the play of any of the QBs.
yeah that was my biggest takeaway from this article. who has fallen faster? usually after you get let go of being a coach you retire or just take the standard demotion to coordinator. not move to another country to coach.
Seriously, who really cares about Canadian football?
I’m guessing Canadians.
no we don’t
I do. Not everyone here just cares about the NFL.
Who really cares about your opinion?
See? It can go both ways too.
Ditto.
And boom goes the dynamite
Lmao got em
I do.. But that may be because my team is the best in the League..
As for the story itself.. I knew Montreal were a giant ball of suck this season, but to go for Manziel? wow.
I read that name in the article as Matt Shiitz. Lol.
Who gives a Shiitz about them?
Ticats picked up 2 first round draft picks in this deal so I think they got the best of it. The Canadian game is probably a better fit for Manziel than the NFL so it will be interesting to see how he does in Montreal.
Oregon legend Jeremiah Masoli
I know there’s a joke in here somewhere about Manziel and Canadian Bacon, but don’t feel like putting it together..
What do West Texas pork and Johnny Manziel both have in common?
Doesn’t matter where they started, they’re both Canadian bacon now.
If he got traded to Toronto we could have a reality show about him and Kawhi Leonard adapting from West Texas life to Canada. “North of the Border Cowboys” or some such. They’re gonna have plenty of time on their hands what with the not playing and all…
Not sure why you think cowboys in Canada would be a novelty….the country does have a prairie last time I checked. Montreal didn’t trade for Manziel so he could be a spectator….he will see plenty of action.