“I don’t think they’ll cut him before the end of the season”, Cabot wrote, “but they’ll probably part ways sometime in the offseason”. Gruden will call Monday night’s Ravens-Browns game for ESPN. “This is a hurdle”, Pettine said. “Like I said, I have nothing more to add”.
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While players should be able to spend their free time however they like, the video is troubling considering Manziel’s history with alcohol.
Johnny Manziel lied to the Browns about a video of him partying being old, according to Jay Glazer of Fox Sports. Just one week before that decision, the Browns had announced Manziel would be the starter for the rest of the season. The position of quarterback is always going to be held to a higher standard than any other position on the team.
Browns offensive coordinator John DeFilippo said he believed it was possible for the embattled quarterback to make his way back onto the field this season, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reported.
Both McCown and Pettine said the veteran is healthy enough to play now despite dealing with a rib injury suffered October 25.
Pettine said Manziel was disappointed when he broke the news to him Tuesday. “You have a player that, I think we can all agree in this room, has come so far from a football standpoint in the product he put on the field from a year ago to go out and play that way on the road against a very good Pittsburgh Steeler defense. At the same time, we’re confident that the guys we have that are going to play on Monday that are going to be out there and do the right thing and be in the right spot”. We’re working with him every day. “He faces them head-on and he does what he thinks is right in all circumstances, even if maybe it doesn’t look good off the bat or if even in this case, he’s asking Johnny maybe to take a step back to hopefully take a couple of steps forward”.
In a report by USA Today, Cleveland Browns’ Quarterback Johnny Manziel is going to warm the bench once again. Manziel responded by promising Pettine he wouldn’t do anything to embarrass the organization during the team’s recent five-day, bye-week break.
Listening to what Gruden has to say, it’s hard not to wonder whether Browns owner Jimmy Haslam will try to hire Gruden to do what he did with Manziel earlier this year on a full-time basis, as the head coach of the team.
Quick hitters: Pettine said that left guard Joel Bitonio (ankle) returned for some light individual work on Friday.
If Gruden really wants to help Manziel, Gruden should connect Manziel and Favre. He’s preparing to go out there.
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Quarterback Brady Quinn, another in the never-ending line of first-round quarterbacks who have failed in Cleveland, finished the night just 13-of-31 for 99 yards while being intercepted twice.
