“John-ny!” chants again reverberated through FirstEnergy Stadium on Sunday.
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So it was that another meager turnout of curiosity seekers showed up at The Factory of Sadness for the latest viewing of veteran sideshow Johnny Manziel – the Browns’ version of a water-skiing squirrel.
San Francisco’s offensive line already looked overmatched in a 24-10 loss to the lowly Cleveland Browns on Sunday, a defeat so listless that even 49ers players questioned their effort level.
Eye-witness calls to the police from fellow travelers along Interstate 90 detailed Manziel, who admitted to having a couple drinks downtown before heading home, as driving erratically on the highway and in a physical argument with his girlfriend, Colleen Crowley, who was heard on the police video saying, “He hurt me several times”, and also, “I’m in fear for my life”.
Johnny Manziel isn’t always a club-hopping, $100 bill-signing, side-arm-slinging quarterback.
San Francisco 49ers outside linebacker Corey Lemonier (96) grabs the face mask of Cleveland Browns q …
When Pettine announced Manziel’s benching, he said trust is lost in buckets and regained in drops. There was a lot to like about how he played yesterday, but there is still a lot left to learn about whether or not he could be labeled as a franchise quarterback. “We’ve got to figure out a way to correct and prepare and go play to win a football game”. However, when McCown was healthy the next week, Manziel got benched, and he didn’t start again until Week 9. And that would put him in position to go into the offseason and the 2016 season as the Browns’ starting quarterback. On first-and-10, Manziel rolled to his left and threw toward Hartline in the middle of the field.
“This isn’t freaking (Texas) A&M, ” he said, adding the tablet survived the head-butting.
I expect a lot of points in this game and for the total to be topped. By us getting a win last week, maybe we got a little big-headed this week and thought that things were just going to happen. When you run the ball like we did and get ahead of the sticks, you get them back on their heels and run the ball and get the defense exhausted, that’s the ideal to win a football game offensively. He’ll wrap 2015 with 46 catches for 523 yards and two scores. After last week’s game winning touchdown in overtime, fans had something to look forward too.
“It’s a credit to those guys on how we prepared during the week”, Pettine said.
“Maybe we took them lightly. Johnny!” during the second half of the game. This is a guy who is a leader in the locker room, a leader in the meeting rooms. “It has shown in the way he is playing on the field, in practice and everything else”.
“I don’t think I have words to do it justice”, an emotional Dawson said afterward. “When I’m an old man and my memory’s starting to fade I hope the good Lord lets me remember today because it’s about as good as it gets”.
Barnidge complimented Pettine’s handling of Manziel, including the benching, and said it will help in the long run. “It was good to see”.
“I don’t think we play with a different energy no matter who is back there”.
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-Kicker Travis Coons, 18-of-18 on field goal tries at one point of the season, is now 20-of-23.
