Johnny Manziel to Return as Browns’ Starting QB

With its biggest win over Cleveland, Cincinnati moved to the brink of making the playoffs for the fifth straight season, a stretch of success Browns fans haven’t seen in generations. Just like he scored Sunday’s first touchdown of the game, when he sent four receivers split to his left and as the Browns scrambled to adjust, he called his own number and went right up the middle to score a three-yard touchdown. “We figured that it was going to be tough for them to score on us, so we just wanted to get them out of field goal range. It’s been working, so why change it?”

With the win over the Browns, the Bengals sit at 10-2, and have a chance to clinch the AFC North Division in next week’s game against the Pittsburgh Steelers.

The loss was their seventh straight.

Will we see Johnny Football against the 49ers? Head coach Mike Pettine will officially announce his decision Monday, according to Grossi. It’s a healthy dose of adversity. “But at the end of the day, you’re only as good as the final score”. 12 Bengals players were targeted on passes throughout the game. Another impressive statistical accomplishment that occurred in the game was quarterback Andy Dalton joining Peyton Manning as the only two quarterbacks to throw for 3,000 yards in their first five seasons.

A Browns spokesman said he didn’t know yet if that was the case. “It’s about us. What kind of standard are we holding ourselves to? We can’t stop the momentum”. Nine plays later, Dalton ran a quarterback sneak from the 3 for a 7-0 lead.

“There is a lot of football left to be played”, said Pettine, who has not discussed his future with Haslam.

“It was great to go out here and take care of business”.

“We’re just going to fall back on what we know how to do. The way Andy is playing is unbelievable”.

Dalton had a great game, completing 14 of 19 passing attempts for 220 yards, two passing touchdowns and a rushing touchdown for a season-high 146.8 passer rating. This comes after Austin Davis was given the start and the Browns were destroyed by the Cincinnati Bengals, 37-3. Punch out. Green had five catches for 128 yards for his third 100-yard game of the season.

Minnesota was embarrassed on its home field for the second time in three weeks.

It’s official, doesn’t matter if he’s 3 times over the legal limit, Johnny Manziel will start for the Cleveland Browns for the remainder of the season. Davis couldn’t find anyone open and threw incomplete with 10:07 left in the second quarter. He overthrew tight end Gary Barnidge on fourth-and-one from the Bengals 40. Rookie Tyler Kroft recorded his second catch in as many games, this time, a 17 yard grab that was much more impressive than his four yard catch and fall last week.

The Bengals added a 20-yard field goal late in the fourth quarter.

NOTES: Bengals TE Tyler Eifert was inactive because of a neck injury.

The Browns benched Manziel back on November 24 and have started Davis in place of the injured McCown over their last two games, both losses.