Johnny Manziel still thinks Browns believe in him
Despite recent off-the-field issues, Johnny Manziel still thinks the Browns believe in him.
After having a message sent to him for being benched the previous two games, quarterback Johnny Manziel has finally gotten his job back with the Cleveland Browns, and will be starting the final four games of the season for them, provided he doesn’t do something again.
Manziel had been given the job by the Browns earlier on, when Josh McCown got hurt and the team began to struggle, but he lost his spot after a video surfaced of him during the bye week partying, which subsequently led to him lying to the Browns and getting his starting position removed.
Now that he’s served his time, Manziel will get the final four games of the season to show the Browns what he can do as a starting quarterback in this league, as the team continues their almost two-decade long search of trying to find a quarterback of the future.
With Manziel getting his job back, he spoke to reporters for the first time since being benched, and he feels that the Browns still believe in him as their quarterback.
"Perhaps most interesting was that Manziel said he doesn’t believe he’s on his last chance with the Browns and that the organization “still believes” in him.Manziel was even asked directly about his home-state Cowboys and what have become faily common public flirtations by Jerry Jones.“I’m not giving up on myself being here,” Manziel said."
It’s clear that the Browns really want the Manziel experiement to work out, because they don’t want to have to go into another draft looking for a quarterback. However, they also have to be smart and realize that they probably can’t give him too many more chances and get burned by it.
Manziel has exhausted his chances, and now he has to show that he can be a quarterback in this league in the final four games. If he can’t do that, then it could be the end of the line for Johnny Football.