Get ready for the media to analyze every step that Johnny Manziel takes on and especially off of the field. He just has been named the starting quarterback for the Cleveland Browns after Brian Hoyer stunk up the joint. As the new starting quarterback, he is going to attract a ton of attention. Manziel already had a lot of eyes in his direction while he was the starting quarterback with Texas A&M, but this attention will be at a whole new level in the NFL. How will he adjust to the attention? Will he thrive because of it?
In his first day as the starting quarterback of the Browns, the media is already wondering why he is absent from the Cleveland Cavs game tonight. He had tickets to the game, but he decided to skip out this time around. Did he skip out to concentrate more on offotball or did he skip out for nothing football related at all? It doesn’t matter because people are already putting their stories together on it. Last week, he did attend the game and was out late on that Tuesday night. Since he was out late, there were people that questioned his commitment to work hard since he had a shot at being named the starter at that time.
Manziel is the quarterback equivalent of Rob Gronkowski off of the field. He is young and he likes to have a good time. He gets a lot of attention for his actions off of the field and media will give him even more attention now that he is starting. If he finds ways to win football games, people won’t be able to judge what he does. If he starts losing, then the questioning of his actions will begin.
The Cleveland Browns face the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday in a game they have to win in order to make the playoffs. The Browns are still in the hunt, but they need a ton of help in order to make that magic happen. We will see what kind of magic Manziel has up his sleeve for the rest of this season.