Report: Johnny Manziel lied to Browns about partying video

According to reports, Johnny Manziel lied to the Cleveland Browns about the video captured of him partying during the bye week.

Johnny Manziel’s pants are on fire.

After video surfaced of him during the bye week partying and rapping, after he had told the Cleveland Browns he would be home to learn and study during the week off, the Browns stripped Manziel of his starting position and demoted him to third-string quarterback.

It also appears that he tried to lie his way through the situation, by suggesting the video and photos of him were old. According to Jay Glazer, that is exactly the story that Manziel gave to the Browns when he tried to find his way out of another situation.

Unfortunately for Manziel, the Browns weren’t having any of that and sacked him immediately, as they sent him down the depth chart.

Deadspin tried to do a little investigating of their own, and noted that the song in the background is from March, but Manziel failed to cover his own tracks, as the caption of the video came from a Future and Drake song that was released back in September.

"The song playing in the background is “March Madness,” by Future, which was released in the middle of March. Manziel entered rehab at the end of January, and reportedly left in April. The original video also had the caption “Sippin on Dom Perignon for no reason with #johnnymanziel,” which references a lyric from “Diamonds Dancing,” a song by Future and Drake. That track was on the mixtape “What a Time to Be Alive,” which was released on Sept. 20 of this year. The video could be old, but it can’t be that old."

So in a sense, Manziel almost had a perfect defense for the video, but in the end he couldn’t quite pull it off. Isn’t that really the story of him as a quarterback too? Faced with daunting situations and being closed in on, only to give it his best as he tries to escape?

This time there was no escape for Manziel.