Johnny Manziel: Swan Won't Return His Calls

[getBUCKED]

I love Joe Haden. Can't wait to get his jersey the moment the new ones are released in 2015.

 

[SixPACK]

http://espn.go.com/dallas/nfl/story...l-cleveland-browns-short-career-stop-partying

Johnny Manziel must 'figure it out'

Cleveland Browns rookie quarterback Johnny Manziel had better tone it down off the field and pay more attention to what's happening on it if he plans on an extended NFL career, Hall of Famer Emmitt Smith said Tuesday.

Smith, the NFL's all-time leading rusher who won three Super Bowls with the Dallas Cowboys, has some advice for the flamboyant, partying Manziel: Eventually you have to grow up.

"That lifestyle is going to be a short lifestyle -- a short career lifestyle -- if he continues that," Smith told 105.3 FM in Dallas. "As we used to say, you can't keep burning the candle at both ends of the stick. The candle gets small fairly quick. Johnny is going to have to figure it out.

"Hopefully he's not doing anything to hurt himself outside of drinking, which is going to harm his body and harm his performance anyway. At the end of the day, he's going to have to learn to manage those things."

Cleveland Browns coach Mike Pettine has said he's got no issues with whatever Manziel is doing off the field, as long as it isn't criminal, and refuses to micromanage his new star.

Smith, however, puts the onus on Manziel to realize what's important, to make the right choices and to leave the college lifestyle behind.

"Johnny is young. I was young and dumb myself at one point in time," said Smith, who played 13 of his 15 NFL seasons with the Cowboys. "But maturity itself, and maturing as a professional athlete, is something that is required of every pro football player.

"I think right now Johnny Manziel is going to get a glimpse of what negative press can do for you. A lot of people think negative press is good press -- or any press is good press. It's not."

 

[I-77 NORTH]

Joe Haden for mayor..
















...and Im dead srs.

 

[SixPACK]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Johnny Manziel said he is working on not being caught by cameras so much. But also insisted &quot;I don't think I'm doing anything wrong.&quot;</p>&mdash; Aditi Kinkhabwala (@AKinkhabwala) <a href="https://twitter.com/AKinkhabwala/statuses/482530773262561280">June 27, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Browns?src=hash">#Browns</a> QB Johnny Manziel declined to address the &quot;money phone&quot; video. Said it's in the past.</p>&mdash; Nate Ulrich (@NateUlrichABJ) <a href="https://twitter.com/NateUlrichABJ/statuses/482530965185900544">June 27, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Browns?src=hash">#Browns</a> QB Johnny Manziel repeatedly pointed that people always want to take photos when he's out. Said teammates tired of hype &amp; he is too.</p>&mdash; Nate Ulrich (@NateUlrichABJ) <a href="https://twitter.com/NateUlrichABJ/statuses/482531620206149632">June 27, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Browns?src=hash">#Browns</a> QB Johnny Manziel said he wants to hang out with his friends in free time. Said he has the &quot;right&quot; to do so.</p>&mdash; Nate Ulrich (@NateUlrichABJ) <a href="https://twitter.com/NateUlrichABJ/statuses/482531868525731841">June 27, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>.<a href="https://twitter.com/TonyGrossi">@TonyGrossi</a>: Manziel is not sorry about anything he has done. He said he will continue to enjoy his weekends. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Browns?src=hash">#Browns</a></p>&mdash; ESPN Cleveland (@ESPNCleveland) <a href="https://twitter.com/ESPNCleveland/statuses/482531979146317824">June 27, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Browns?src=hash">#Browns</a> QB Johnny Manziel said he wants to be starter for Week 1. Won't be satisfied starting season as Brian Hoyer's backup.</p>&mdash; Nate Ulrich (@NateUlrichABJ) <a href="https://twitter.com/NateUlrichABJ/statuses/482532040328609792">June 27, 2014</a></blockquote>
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>.<a href="https://twitter.com/TonyGrossi">@TonyGrossi</a>: Manziel admitted he needs to be more mindful of the attention he receives. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Browns?src=hash">#Browns</a> Listen at <a href="http://t.co/l1VfrVLvi5">http://t.co/l1VfrVLvi5</a></p>&mdash; ESPN Cleveland (@ESPNCleveland) <a href="https://twitter.com/ESPNCleveland/statuses/482532161489076225">June 27, 2014</a></blockquote>
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[PIP]

It's June 27th and I am over Johnny Manziel.... Just way toooo much...

 

[AZ_]

The Pollyanna act of "I don't know why people are following me" is getting so tired.

Be a professional.

 

[Soda]

It's June 27th and I am over Johnny Manziel.... Just way toooo much...

Derek Jeter and Mark Sanchez say save it.

 

[AZ_]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Johnny Manziel used the word &quot;derail&quot; in his presser today. Color me impressed.</p>&mdash; Aditi Kinkhabwala (@AKinkhabwala) <a href="https://twitter.com/AKinkhabwala/statuses/482564894638608385">June 27, 2014</a></blockquote>
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Nevermind my previous post, kid gets it.

 

[Surge]

^ He must have been reading this thread. :chuckles:

 

[The Oi]

Is she kidding?

I'm pretty sure I've heard Drew Gooden and Michael Beasley use the word derail before. And I know Dan Marino has.

 

[Cashius X]

I feel bad for him. I don't see a problem with him going out on weekends or having fun. He's just being a kid.

 

[Pyro]

If he wins games, all of this goes away.

Sadly, he probably won't be the starter this season unless something catastrophic happens, so buckle in folks.

 

[Tornicade]

http://espn.go.com/dallas/nfl/story...l-cleveland-browns-short-career-stop-partying

I listened to emmits radio interview and he was more along the lines of keep it private.

Emmmitts just jumping on the manziel media bus just like most of the others.. I mean after all since most of his team spent more time in the White house than the practice field during their super bowl runs

 

[AZ_]

I feel bad for him. I don't see a problem with him going out on weekends or having fun. He's just being a kid.

The NFL is a mans game.

 

[Cashius X]

The NFL is a mans game.

And he'll mature into a man with time. He'll learn from his mistakes. But there's no point chronicling his weekends and fretting over him going out like many have in this thread.

He's 21. Can't be so hard on a young rookie.