Johnny Manziel Finally Comfortable, Confident In Browns Offense

Johnny Manziel didn’t feel comfortable or ready to play when the NFL season began for the Cleveland Browns, but after two months the first round pick feels ready to play

When the Cleveland Browns spent their second of two first round picks on former Heisman Trophy winner and Texas A&M Aggies quarterback, Johnny Manziel, the assumption that Manziel would be the team’s starter when the regular season began.

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The play of veteran quarterback and Ohio native Brian Hoyer was one reason why head coach Mike Pettine and the Browns have looked wise naming him the starter over Manziel who likely would have been overwhelmed and in over his head had he been thrust in to the starting lineup when the season began.

Manziel was not ready for the sophisticated offense the Browns run compared to the playbook he had for his two years as the starting quarterback for the Aggies, but now he feels he’s ready to play because he’s more comfortable with the offense.

"“I feel a lot more confident, a lot more comfortable,” Manziel said Friday after practice, via the Akron Beacon Journal. “Getting into a new system, just getting around these guys, the whole process of being under center a lot more, everything that’s involved in this offense just wasn’t anything that I was asked to do really at [Texas] A&M. So I knew it would take me some time."

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“Now going through these game plans and getting some of the same ideas spilling over into the next week, we have our certain game plan stuff throughout the week, so I feel like I can study that. I’m a lot more honed in on that. It just makes me a lot more comfortable.”

The Browns are 3-2 on the season with wins in three of their last four games, including a 31-10 rout over AFC North rival, the Pittsburgh Steelers. In fact, the two losses the Browns have this year are by a combined five points as Hoyer has seven touchdowns to only one interception and a quarterback rating that is .1 below Andrew Luck and ahead of notable quarterbacks like Drew Brees and Tom Brady.

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Johnny Manziel didn’t feel comfortable or ready to play when the NFL season began for the Cleveland Browns, but after two months the first round pick feels ready to play

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