1/24/2015 9:09:59 AM
Oft-maligned Browns rookie quarterback Johnny Manziel is the subject of a report from ESPN.com's Pat McManamon and Jeremy Fowler in which they talked to "nearly 20 Browns sources, both on the record and on condition of anonymity" that paint an ugly picture of Manziel's actions during the season and how they were viewed by those within the organization, Mary Kay Cabot of the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports.
You know the report isn't going to be good when it has this nugget:
"As one player put it, Manziel throughout the entire 2014 season was a '100 percent joke.'"
The story delves into the Saturday prior to the finale in Baltimore ("Two team sources said security found a player who they felt clearly had partied hard the night before. One source used the words 'drunk off his a--.'") and how Manziel was treated by the team. ("One Browns staffer said he believed Manziel didn't get tough love when attention to detail wasn't there ...")
As for what went wrong in his first start? A lot:
"But more than once, teammates corrected the play-call in the huddle, or headed to the line hoping things would work because the call was wrong. Sometimes, the offense would get lined up wrong because Manziel forgot to read the whole play or got the verbiage wrong (saying 'left' instead of 'right,' for example)."
Oft-maligned Browns rookie quarterback Johnny Manziel is the subject of a report from ESPN.com's Pat McManamon and Jeremy Fowler in which they talked to "nearly 20 Browns sources, both on the record and on condition of anonymity" that paint an ugly picture of Manziel's actions during the season and how they were viewed by those within the organization, Mary Kay Cabot of the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports.
You know the report isn't going to be good when it has this nugget:
"As one player put it, Manziel throughout the entire 2014 season was a '100 percent joke.'"
The story delves into the Saturday prior to the finale in Baltimore ("Two team sources said security found a player who they felt clearly had partied hard the night before. One source used the words 'drunk off his a--.'") and how Manziel was treated by the team. ("One Browns staffer said he believed Manziel didn't get tough love when attention to detail wasn't there ...")
As for what went wrong in his first start? A lot:
"But more than once, teammates corrected the play-call in the huddle, or headed to the line hoping things would work because the call was wrong. Sometimes, the offense would get lined up wrong because Manziel forgot to read the whole play or got the verbiage wrong (saying 'left' instead of 'right,' for example)."
