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Manziel, your new starting QB
Today the Browns announced that Manziel will be starting for the rest of the season. Is that going to fix the problems the team is suffering with? I don’t think so. For the first time in a long time, QB isn’t the biggest barrier to our success. We can’t run the ball, we can’t protect our QB, we can’t get to the other team’s QB, and we can’t stop teams from running the score up on us. We can’t even score double digit points when our QB throws for over 350 yards. If our O-line, running backs, and defense don’t get better then what’s the point?
What you’re saying is indeed true, Ice. The defense is pathetic, the O-line is not functioning as a single unit, the running backs are giving the team next to nothing on the ground and the receivers are not talented enough to play in the NFL. However, my biggest concern with this move is the fact that Manziel has simply been handed the starting QB spot because the team is 2-8 through 10 games and he was the 22nd overall pick in last year’s draft. Johnny has neither worked hard for the promotion, neither has he earned it. All three of his starts this year were the result of veteran starting QB Josh McCown being too injured to suit up and play. So now that the Browns are out of the race for respectability – let alone playoffs – the powers that be have decided that they need to see if Johnny can show the organization enough to be the QB of the future moving forward.
I can already tell you how this is going to play out . . . 1 – Johnny will suffer a season ending injury within the next four games because (A) he’s small and frail and (B) the O-line has already packed it in for the season and doesn’t want to block for this punk. 2 – Austin Davis will finish out the season at QB, showing the intestinal fortitude and determination of an army drill sergeant, which will – 3 – produce spirited debate in Brownstown as to whether Davis or Connor Shaw should be the starting QB moving into 2016.
Manziel needs to flush the, “I’m going to live my live the way I want to” attitude down the toilet and take on the, “I can promise you this . . . As long as I’m a Cleveland Brown, I promise you that no one on this team will work harder than me on the practice field, in the weight room or in the film room to be the very best player humanly possible. No one will be a more dedicated leader in this organization than Johnny Manziel” attitude.
Am I going mad, or did the word THINK escape your lips? You were not hired for your brains, you hippopotamic landmass!
Well said @BillWunkle. I think it would take a standout QB to make a difference in the W/L column with this team. If we had Tom Brady at QB, he could turn us around and maybe end the season with a 6-10 record. Switching from McCown to Manziel doesn’t really change anything because our defense isn’t playing defense and our running game isn’t running.
As to your prediction, once Manziel has a couple bad games in a row he’ll have another ‘hamstring issue’ that will keep him on the bench. McCown will come in for about a quarter and be taken off on a stretcher after diving for an extra yard on 3rd and 18. Davis will come in and throw for about 160 yards per game to finish off the season, and then people will say “We have to see what we have in Austin”. Because Cleveland.
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