Browns' offensive coordinator Dan DeFelippo isn't running for office. What he's had to say about Johnny Manziel isn't about buying your vote, and (permabashers excepted, of course) you should accept this as his sincere opinion.
Per Flip, Johnny has been all over it, and turning in a-plus homework.
Because Mike Pettine said that at this point AT THIS POINT Josh McCown is the presumptive starter, too many have assumed that Manziel won't start at all in 2015.
After all, he was so bad in 2014 that it's impossible that he could not suck anytime soon. That's not to mention the fact that he went to rehab, which means that he'll need a few years to put his life back together before he can think about starting in the NFL.
The fact that Pettine refused to etch even an opening day starter in stone has to be purely political, right?
In reality, Johnny Manziel wasted most of his rookie season. But he did get two starts, and more--of real experience. He sucked. He was humiliated--and rightfully so. But this means his rookie season wasn't a complete waste.
If he hadn't had the chance to play, and turn himself into a punch-line, he might still be partying his brains out. Johnny thought he was all that, but his real-time exposure to the NFL was traumatic.
All rights reserved: Trauma teaches.
The nimrods who doubt Manziel's arm, accuracy, or talent in general are clueless. What kept him from succeeding last season--aside from inexperience--was his poor work ethic and lack of focus.
He proved his football intelligence to every coach at his combine. Johnny knows football.
Josh McCown is indeed the probable opening day starter (DUH), but Manziel is more talented, and has every chance to take over at any time.
As I've said before, it's yet to be seen whether or not Johnny has the information-processing ability to make multiple reads under pressure.
Flip talked about calling protections pre-snap. I'm confident that Manziel will handle that part fine, now that he's freaking paying attention.
I was glad to hear that DeFellipo valued Johnny's scrambling, and didn't want to take that away from him.
I'm pretty sick of hearing that last season he found out that this doesn't work in the NFL because in his 2.-something games he didn't run all over everybody. If you've already buried that part of Manziel's game, you are a mow-ron.
On Deflate-gate radio, I've heard the non-football guys repeatedly declare any Browns' QB D.O.A. because of their recievers...and despite their running backs and admittedly a top-five offensive line.
They cite how between them, Dwayne Bowe and Brian Hartline had one touchdown last season.
You see, the receptions and yards don't matter.
It's a crock. These are two pretty good x/y recievers who get open and make catches. They have wide catch-radiae so that pinpoint accuracy isn't required.
DeFellipo wants a West Coast offense, which will maximize their production. A true West Coast also minimizes the importance of a stud number one reciever, as the majority of the passes are short and between the hashmarks.
See Jerry Rice. He rarely caught a deep pass. He took short passes deep.
But I digress:
Defensive coordinator Jim O'Neil isn't running for office either, and was honest about stopping the run.
This fed into the "lack of pressure" narrative last season, because enemy offenses weren't often stuck in obvious passing situations due to their success on the ground.
The Browns' pass-rush didn't suck. They just didn't have enough opportunities to let the dawgs loose.
Now that Starks, Cooper, and Shelton have been added, and Hughes is healthy, the pass-rush should magically improve for some strange reason.
Duh.
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