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Johnny Manziel unlikely to play Week 17 due to concussion

According to the Plain Dealer, Manziel came to the Browns practice facility Wednesday complaining of concussion like symptoms. With the two AFC North teams due to lock horns in Week 17, Manziel’s status is unknown moving forward as the mobile quarterback has entered the NFL’s concussion protocol.

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“We’ll take a very conservative approach with it”, Pettine said before the team announced Manziel’s diagnosis.


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“It’s a bottom line business, and if I just pull myself back from it and put myself elsewhere and look in, the record is not good, ” said Pettine, whose job security has been in doubt most of this season.


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“I don’t think we can really mandate it, but there can be strong suggestions as far as how he handles it”, Pettine said. “I’ll have a conversation with him at the first time that I can”.

Pettine demoted Manziel from starter to third string on November 24 after he partied during a bye-week break, then lied to the Browns about it. The world became aware of Manziel’s revelry during that brief vacation because a video surfaced online showing him holding a large bottle while singing and dancing in an Austin, Texas, nightclub. “You’ve got to be able to send him off with a plan and check in every so often, and when the desire is there to want to get it changed and want to be better, hopefully you’ll have a good result”.

“If you listen real close, you can probably hear the activity upstairs of trying to find a guy”, coach Mike Pettine said. “But it’s not how I’m wired to be stressed about it”. “We talk about the offseason and the staff. If you’re (asking about) an assurance, we haven’t discussed that”. I think we made strides in that department.

Davis has played in two games this season, starting one for the Browns. Or that the Browns have not won a season finale since 2009?

“I love it here, ” he said.

But a defense that consistently gave up big plays and can’t stop the run could be Pettine’s downfall. Manziel did throw for 372 yards in a losing effort at Heinz Field and the Steelers’ secondary was again exposed against a backup quarterback in Baltimore last week. Pettine said he had not had the opportunity yet to speak to Manziel personally about the new video.

No, the Steelers weren’t feeling much about things Wednesday morning when they reported back to work three days after a 20-17 loss to the Ravens that some of their players termed “devastating”. Quarterbacks are averaging 24.3 Fantasy points per game against the Steelers in their last three games and that is the back-ups murderer’s row of Mallet, Osweiller and McCarron.

– Wide receivers have 11 touchdowns in the last six games against the Browns.

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