Johnny Manziel To Play Again This Season For The Cleveland Browns?

It was getaway day before the long bye weekend, and McCown was uncharacteristically short with the media.

“Growing up as a kid, you always wanted to play on Monday night”, said second-year linebacker Christian Kirksey, whose family will be in attendance. The kid needed help to get himself under control; else he would have spent his offseason relaxing instead of working the 12 step program and talking to counselors about his issues. “I’m not going to lie”. It’s how you respond to the adversity, whether it’s a peak in the good times or hey, if there are some down years, down time, how do you handle that? He understands the reason, but that doesn’t ease the sting. It also gave his aching ribs a chance to heal. But McCown, despite sympathizing with Manziel, is excited for another opportunity. “I’m especially disappointed in his actions and behavior because he has been working very hard”, he said in a statement released by the team last week.

McCown was not the original starter for the Browns heading to Sunday’s game though, as head coach Mike Pettine first announced Johnny Manziel as their starter against the Ravens. For Cleveland, it is mostly because the quarterback situation is a total mess, something that has been the case on the shores of Lake Erie since the team came back into existence in 1999. You never say never in this profession. “It’s not just Johnny”.

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The Dallas Cowboys are 3-8 on the season but 0-7 in games started by some other quarterback than Tony Romo.

Like Pettine, DeFilippo sidestepped questions about his conversations with Manziel.

“It’s the trust, the accountability part of it”, Pettine said. Crowley reportedly admitted to police that she had been drinking but Manziel was not given a sobriety test. I appreciate that from him. “This is where we had an obvious shortcoming”.

Pettine is taking a beating from fans who believe he is overreacting. “I do think there is an added energy to it”.

“I like what I’ve seen (from Manziel on the field)”. This is not to say I expect the Browns to win every game or even more than half, but I still hope they do. Josh McCown is starting for the Browns at QB and his lifetime record in the National Football League as a starter is 18-39.

The Ravens rank No. 24 against the pass (257 yards per game) but held the Rams to 131 passing yards last week on top of forcing four turnovers. “We’re confident we know what Josh can do”.

Ravens coach John Harbaugh has been one of Schaub’s biggest supporters, lashing out at “amateur evaluators” and predicting Schaub will play “very, very well”. “I have to talk to myself more during the game”. We should play with a lot of confidence on Monday night at home in front of our own crowd. Left cornerback Joe Haden plus wide receivers Andrew Hawkins and Taylor Gabriel are all out with concussions. “2-8 is obviously not where any of us wanted to be”. This will be a competitive, yet ugly game that comes right down to the wire, as has every Ravens game this season.

“We all stand together on this one”, Pettine said. “So that’s a good thing”. But the Ravens’ defense against the run will force the Browns to throw 40 or more times.

“He’s made great progress on the field, ” Gruden said.