During OTAs Cleveland Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel broke his media silence, which had lasted for the entire offseason while he went to rehab for undisclosed reasons, and tried to rebuild his image.
While he rehabbed, the Browns signed veteran Josh McCown to a multi-year contract and have talked him up as the presumptive starter. He's taking all the first-team reps, and head coach Mike Pettine has offered effusive praise.
Manziel has taken the new situation with humility, and looks like he's turned over a new, team-first leaf.
I feel bad about that throughout the last months of my life really thinking back and seeing how much of my life outside of this field and outside of this locker room was documented," Manziel said.
"It's not fair for Joe Haden to be having to answer questions about me every day. It's not fair for Joe Thomas and all these guys to just continue to have questions asked about me. I don't think that's fair at all and I don't want that on them."
ESPN radio host Colin Cowherd is not buying it though. Cowherd, who has drawn heavy criticism for his verbal attacks on Washington Wizards point guard John Wall, evoked his Wall remarks while eviscerating Manziel.
"I've said this before: Johnny Manziel, to me, is John Wall," Cowherd said. "When I criticize John Wall for the Dougie, [fans say] that's thin slicing, that is racism. I said no, it's driven by an idiotic act, and then I look at your past. And I look at Johnny Manziel's past: he's an entitled trust fund kid, I hated his money sign, I looked in his family history and saw oil money, rich kid, entitled, he will never succeed.
"Now, John Wall is a much better basketball player than Johnny Manziel is a football player. It's not close. John wall is atremendous talent. Johnny Manziel is a borderline NFL player. But Johnny Manziel is giving up the money sign, Millennials, and it does matter."
Whether or not Manziel heard Cowherd's tirade, he has decided to ditch his money sign. "The money sign will not be back. I will not be making it out there," Manziel said.
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