I haven't bothered reading anything about Johnny Manziel's incident. It took over two hours of harrassment to make him pop his cork.
Reports say the scumbag was after an autograph, but he was probably being sarcastic. Some people love to torture other people. I was emotionally tortured constantly as a kid til I went nuts, and well...it stopped.
I've never been able to fathom how any human being could enjoy torturing other people like that, and it's the "fan", and not Johnny, who needs a horsewhipping.
It is troubling that Johnny did lose his temper, because defenders he will ultimately face will be trying to "get in his head" all game every game now. Still, I don't think this is a big deal. Not at all.
Most of the people on Adrian Peterson Radio are kind of laughing at reports that the Browns have "moved on" from Johnny Manziel, but not all of them.
For one entire show, one of the talking heads had moved on from the moving on part and was trying to talk about what the Browns would do next at quarterback after kicking him to the curb.
Tony Grossi is well-respected for good reasons, but his recent article describing Manziel as a "fish out of water", and concluding that the Browns have obviously "moved on" from him was pretty bad.
He's looking at seven-on-seven drills, and three other writers saw pretty much the opposite. THEY said he threw an interception, then ripped off a string of sharp completions and looked good.
But Grossi is the heavyweight, and a bunch of clowns have taken that ball and run with it.
"Browns are mishandling Johnny Manziel"? Well he DID suck like a Hoover on steroids last season, and wasted most of that season NOT doing his home-work. He ran a schoolyard offense in college.
This goober thinks the Browns should adapt the offense to Johnny Manziel! Close your eyes and throw the dart.
He also seems to think that Manziel is incapable of ever being a true NFL quarterback. This writer needs to believe that, because then he can say that installing a pro offense means they've given up on him.
This is called circular logic. Reach a conclusion, then find evidence to support it (and filter everything else, including common sense, out),
What did Flip say? He's NOT going to take what Johnny does best away from him, right? Well, there will be plays, like rollouts, in the base offense which both quarterbacks can run. There will be shotgun and pistol sets.
If Manziel takes over at some point, Flip won't build the same game-plans as he will for McCown, and will install same new ones he's already no doubt got on the drawing board.
It's not astro-physics! And it's true: For his sake, Johnny needs to adapt, or he'll never be a long-term starter anywhere in the NFL.
Late addition: What Mike said about this Soap Opera bullcrap.
Russell Wilson runs a pro offense now. Fran Tarkenton ran one decades ago. Roger Staubach himself, for that matter, was a scrambler who learned. Moving on? Mishandling? Oh, puh-leez!
Those there are olympic-calibre conclusion-leapers!
Another writer was analyzing the roster, and went right past assuming that Justin Gilbert had no shot at starting opposite Joe Haden, and assumed that he'd compete for the nickel position.
After all, the slot corner is the third-best cornerback, right?
Jeez. Because Gilbert has exceptional speed, and quickness for his size, he could cover some slot recievers, but at least three other cornerbacks on this roster project better in that role.
They are shorter, smaller, and quicker. Because most slot recievers are shorter, smaller, and quicker--see how this works?
Gilbert could be used situationally for the few teams that use bigger guys in the slot, but you don't want him trying to cover a Hawkins or a Gabriel when he can't even jam them.
Gilbert, if he doesn't win the starting slot, can be used in a kind of safety role, and situationally for Hartline-type slot guys, but isn't a slot cornerback. Nor is Desir, so don't even start that either.
I respect Alex Mack's honesty and position. Pat Kirwan has decided he "wants out" and colors him gone, but Pat has a Steelers shrine in his basement. Until recently, when somebody said "Browns", he would sniff audibly--get it? What else is brown? Haha. How sophisticated.
No, Mack and Joe Thomas are good friends. He has other friends here, and this is not, in reality, a bad place to play.
Alex mentioned one thing: Winning. I get that. McCown is the starter for now, Johnny is a question mark, and Mack is sick of losing. Even if the Browns win ten games this season, he still has to wonder about the future--unless Manziel (or even Connor Shaw) has taken the field and really proven something.
But I think he'll leave anyway. It's the money. Somebody massively overpaid another center, and he'll probably be offered over a three million dollar per year raise by at least one other team. Top ten left tackle money.
Some fans think a GM should just pay players whatever they ask. That is stupid.
Unlike Dizzy Cameron, I'll really miss Alex if he leaves. I try not to resent the fact that all these guys place money over everything else and rarely, if ever, take even four percent less to stay where their home and friends are.
Picking Cam Erving was a really smart move. He can be as good a center as Mack, and for that matter could eventually take over for Joe Thomas.
Terrence West will indeed be more consistent and complete in his second season. I hope Jerry Jones notices.
Travis Benjamin is back 100% from his surgery. I hope other teams notice him too. And for that matter, Hawkins.
Here's the thing: This year's Browns will most likely use two tight ends a lot, and two backs a lot, sometimes with Duke Johnson in the slot. Malcolm Johnson will force his way onto the field.
This means they probably can't carry more than five wide recievers, and there isn't much room for a true slot reciever here. Either of the Johnsons or Housler will often take that slot (pun intended).
They've been lining Andrew Hawkins up in the backfield, which might be telling. They back the little guy off the line to make a jam impossible and give him room.
I assume that Taylor Gabriel will do the same stuff. Gabriel is very much like Hawk, except lower on his growth-curve, younger, physically stronger, and much, much cheaper so...
Anyway these are experiments. They're trying to see if they can find alternative ways to use the little speedsters, because if they're strictly slot guys, that's a problem.
Any of them can return punts, and Duke Johnson can return kicks. All of them have played X and Y reciever with moderate success despite their shrimpdom, but they're limited there, as I described is a previous entry:
They're not good vertical targets, and there are some routes that defenders can "write off" with them. The taller guys can run the whole tree, and can't be "keyed" that way.
I believe that Bowe and Hartline are sticking around.
Josh Lenz could be a sleeper. He's a former running back and had a bad quarterback in college. He's much faster and more explosive than advertised.
Vince Mayle was just drafted. One or both of these guys could go to the practice squad, but there's at least a 50/50 chance one of them makes the cut.
This would leave two slots, assuming they keep five wide recievers. For now, I believe that Travis Benjamin is low man on that totem pole.
Benjamin had one bad year, and has real value as a returner and even as a reciever, but other GMs will know that he's probably going to get released.
Hawk, on the other hand, offers a lot more leverage. He might fetch a third round pick. Then keep Benjamin and see what you can do with him.
I really like Hawk, and know he's the better player. But this is business. Any time you're going to have to start cutting good players, you look at that position group and see if you can get something for them. Age, contract term, money, and comparative talent are all factors here.
That's why I proposed the Terrence West trade. I like him a lot too, but believe that Crowell is better, and Duke Johnson is different AND better as well. They've said they really like Glen Winston, and I take them at their word.
Winston is interesting, because he's 6'2", which is a skyscraper compared the the other backs. The way Flip is trying to use backs as recievers, his physical dimensions would help a whole lot. MUCH bigger catch radius. He's like Greg Little (scary, huh?)
The idea of Crowell or West in the slot isn't very interesting, but Winston? Hmmm!
Of course, it would help if he can catch.
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