The change has been eye-opening, and the Browns don’t put too much of the Seattle loss on Manziel. His teammates, though, looked overwhelmed.
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Johnny Manziel cast his vote for continuity after Sunday’s 30-13 loss to the Seahawks, and Donte Whitner started the drumbeat before the victory over San Francisco.
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“You just look at the environment and dealing with all the circumstances, the crowd noise, where our circumstances going into the game as a team, playing against a team that’s hot, that’s known for their defense and feeds off the home crowd”, Pettine said.
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Johnny Manziel’s progress this season has made Mike Pettine and Joe Thomas start to change their tune. He commanded the huddle and efficiently ran the offense, checking out of plays during his pre-snap reads.
Manziel marched the Browns methodically down the field on a 15-play, 80-yard drive that included four third-down conversions and culminated in a 7-yard touchdown pass to Gary Barnidge.
Manziel was perfectly adequate against the Seahawks, continuing a trend this season where the quarterback play has not been the Browns biggest problem on Sundays.
The Seahawks rolled over the Browns in winning their fifth consecutive game, hitting 30 points for the fourth consecutive game, and clinching yet another playoff appearance.
“We’ll see what happens”, Manziel said in his postgame interview.
“I haven’t met with the staff yet to talk about this week”, Pettine said on Monday afternoon. “It was miraculous that he was back on the field this week, and so we were able to get him through, he should be fine for next week”. “Overall, Johnny did a lot of positive things”. I’m sure there’s some plays that he would want to have back as most quarterbacks would, but overall a lot of positives, a lot to learn from.
“There are just a handful of plays each game where the other team executes and we don’t, and we’re allowing big plays”. That’s a product of how well he’s preparing. Left tackle Joe Thomas has been through several of those upheavals since joining the team, which gives him some insight into how these things play out. It was their eights loss in nine games, and the 16th for coach Mike Pettine in his last 19 games.
Thomas would prefer stability, knowing that turnover brings required regression. “But I will say that any time you make a change in an organization on the coaching staff or you make a change in the organization, there is a one step back that you have to take and that’s just a part of making a change”. “I see the emotion and the passion that you want to see in your team and we’re going to be that way for the next two games”. “You’re going to get a lot of new players, you’re going to get, obviously, new coaches, new people in the building and it does take time to teach people the new philosophy, the new procedures, the new schemes and certainly this National Football League game is something that takes more than one or two years to be really good in a scheme”.
“There is a level of proficiency that you can get in a year to be OK, but it really takes a few years in a scheme before you can get really good at something”.
Thomas said owner Jimmy Haslam hasn’t asked for his opinion.
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Manziel had a respectable day under center, but the offense was hurt by five dropped passes and the fact that RG John Greco left the game on the first series with a knee injury. If Greco were to join Joel Bitonio on injured reserve, they have players on their practice squad they can sign that could be better than Erving, but will fall short of Greco. Thomas quashed the idea that Pettine’s comments last week about Russell Wilson motivated the Seahawks’ QB.
