Was Johnny Manziel good on Sunday? Players who enter the year with 2 years (OR LESS) of starting experience have typically experienced tremendous difficulty finding success in the league. However, that was the only highlight Manziel produced.
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Manziel, who would be a senior this fall if he’d stayed in college, plays as if he’s still at Texas A&M. “Looked like it was an ACL, sitting over there with a towel on his head”. It is rare for a player to be concussed and play the next Sunday. The team added that Mauldin was awake and had feeling in all of his extremities.
The 2016 version of Manziel is likely to be a mixed bag of results. He needs to continue the positive work he displayed in preseason by climbing the pocket, going through reads, and using his legs as a last resort. “We can’t be one and done with our backs”. After strong safety Calvin Pryor forced the fumble near the 3-yard line, inside linebacker Demario Davis struck McCown in the helmet midair near the 1.
The Browns cannot win if they cannot run the ball because they do not have enough playmakers at wide receiver.
He wasn’t supposed to play this early in 2015 but he’s thrust into the situation as a starter and the Browns need to make the most of things. They wont win five games if they cant stop the run. Then, on third-and-goal, he ran for the goal line. Well, as one might presume he was largely hit-or-miss.
Just like that, the Jets had upgraded their weak passing game-easily the team’s Achilles heel. We were simply the better team, we committed fewer penalties, we limited our turnovers and we were more efficient in the red-zone (66%). When the Browns were losing momentum at MetLife Stadium in the second half, Williams saw the sense of resiliency from his teammates go in the wrong direction. Johnny Football also lost his handle on the rock twice in the second half as well. Jim Dray and Rob Housler will immediately want to forget this game ever happened.
On whether he was surprised how smooth the offense was during the first regular game together…
Kudos to Gary’s Aunt, as always, for keeping me in line.
Look for the Cleveland Browns to bounce back next week as they make some adjustments and move on to the next game. Brian Hartline bailed out Manziel with an incredible (top 10 worthy) catch from the ground, and Travis Benjamin absolutely smoked the cornerback en route to an easy 54-yard touchdown.
FAN A: The Browns tight ends are trash.
It was a welcome departure from 2014, and a great way to kick off the new season.
Well, it didn’t take long for me to be done with the Rob Housler experience. I think he’s got what it takes to be a successful NFL QB (full disclosure: I know I repeat this often, but I think it’s only fair – I said the same thing about Tim Tebow), and he showed some flashes of that potential yesterday.
If Manziel or McCown are going to be successful this season, they need the rest of the offense to respond.
This is an incredibly complex issue, and one that will feature a thousand words of spilled digital ink as the week progresses.
“I definitely owe him a soda pop for that one”, Fitzpatrick said. He didnt start throwing a football until September 7.
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Asked if Manziel made it out of the game physically OK, Pettine said, “He did”. A four-year letterman, he amassed 2,146 yards receiving and 3,874 all-purpose yards over the course of his career.
