Johnny Manziel’s NFL career was intended to be a glimpse into what could become the position of professional quarterback.
Living in relative isolation during the coronavirus pandemic gave Manziel enough time for his time in the NFL, from the thrill of being a first-round recruit in the 2014 draft to the many low-season controversies that tarnished his time in the league, the nfl race. has had so many twists and turns that it can be hard not to forget that his term lasted only two years.
Meanwhile, with the Cleveland Browns, Manziel 8 games, winning only two. But that’s not the win-loss record Manziel has been thinking about in recent months, as much as the mess and disrespect he showed with the Browns.
During an appearance on the YNK podcast, Manziel explained how he saw his time in the NFL (comments start at 42:00):
“Looking back now, I’d say I’ve probably lost my respect to 100%. Why can’t you? If I were one of them looking for what I was doing and your decisions you make out of the box have an effect on whether I put food on mine, yes, I’d feel somehow, 100 percent, I’d say we wasted a draft selection to get this guy who doesn’t give a shit, and that’s my only thing in life I haven’t been able to look back and I don’t like having safely closed . . . This is probably one of the only things I haven’t looked back and that I can be just wonderful, wonderful with what happened. “
Even before betting his first regular-season game, Manziel began to make headlines for reasons.
Fined $12,000 after a preseason game for shaking his primaries on the Washington football team, violating the league’s drug policy in 2016 and alienating many of his colleagues with his antics.
This is especially true for his teammates in Cleveland, which Manziel said is one of the hardest truths to accept:
“I don’t like going to Cleveland for two years and having an effect and wasting two years of the career of Joe Thomas, who’s a guy who’s going to be a professional bowler 12 times and who’s going to be in the Hall of Fame and I regret not going and being closer to those guys and being away from the afterlife I was living and it’s crazy , and sitting down and looking at it now, is a shameful thing and anything I have to look back at. and at the end of the day I can only say “I” to those kids.
“And I feel like I’ve told them in the last two years. I got to the point where I hit clearly, and I went to do Joe’s podcast. I contacted Joe Haden, some of the guys that were like members of the base. of the Browns during that time. Because I think we had the ability to do it, but we had a young man, a bad combination of other people and a point where I got hit where I didn’t give everything I had to do. I didn’t have the routine. in my brain like I did to be smart in school like I did in Cleveland, and I feel disrespectful to the guys that were there, being legends because they were driving their fucking ass. “
Manziel left Cleveland in 2016 and the NFL in a time later. He attempted to return to the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League in 2018 and the AAF Memphis Express now disappeared in 2019.
In September, he told TMZ he was retiring. Dealing with his football career remains an ongoing process.