You guys are wasting your time arguing with the troll . Funny how Manziel went from To a guy people would be fired over taking before the 3rd or 4th round
Yeah idk why people are even responding to endoftheworld. I haven't seen him post in any threads besides the QB threads.
Six Senior Bowl defenders give the scouting report on facing Johnny Manziel Spoiler MOBILE, Ala. — We polled six SEC players who have had a good look at Texas A&M quarterback Johnny Manziel over the past two seasons, and they roundly see him as a top talent whose skills should translate in the NFL as he prepares for May's draft. Among the opinions of him we gathered here at the Senior Bowl, here’s a sample of them: What stood out the most about facing Johnny Manziel? Auburn DE Dee Ford: "Toughest player I ever faced. He’s a playmaker. He’s a true competitor." Vanderbilt S Kenny Ladler: "I think he’s just unorthodox. He creates his own plays, he knows how to manage his offense well and he makes plays that normal quarterbacks usually don’t make." Arkansas DE Chris Smith: "The toughest, most physical offensive line we faced this year was Texas A&M, and those guys — Jake Matthews, especially — did such a good job protecting for [Manziel]. But he’s a playmaker, man. There’s no two ways about it. A lot of people talk bad about him, but he’s got it. He’s got eyes in the back of his head. Every time I got close to him, I felt like he got away at the last second. I sacked him one time, but I swear it felt like it took 15 or 20 seconds to get to him. That’s the thing about him: He can just keep plays alive. He’s going to be really good at the next level." Alabama LB Adrian Hubbard: "Everybody can be beat, but he’s a great player and he does what he does well within their system. It’s built for him to [improvise] and make plays on the run. I don’t know how that will work [in the NFL], but he’s tough and competitive." LSU S Craig Loston: "He’s a great college player. We did a great job against him twice [in 2012 and 2013]. We defended him as well as anyone, I think. I don’t know if he’ll make a great pro because I am not paid to make those decisions, but he has skill." Auburn CB Chris Davis: "Man, why are you asking me about Johnny Manziel? [laughs] No, he’s a great player, a truly great player." What was your team's defensive gameplan to try to stop him? Ford: "We just went at him. We weren’t going to sit back. The year before we did that. I told my coach [in 2013], ‘Hey, we can’t do that. We’ve got to go at him.’ It paid off in the end. I got to him [for sacks] twice at the end of the game." Ladler: "We tried to contain him so he didn’t scramble and you try to make him throw short routes. He would run around until he just found someone open. We tried to make sure that didn’t happen." Smith: "A lot of teams try to just contain him, but our coaches wanted us to go get him. That was the message before the game: Go get him. If you sit back and just try to contain him and keep him in the pocket, he’ll kill you with his arm. We tried to go after him, and we did a pretty good job of it, but Johnny’s going to be Johnny." Hubbard: "We tried to put him in a little cup and kind of cramp his space a little bit. That's what the coaches wanted. But he’s Johnny Manziel, and he can beat your plan. Even if you do your job, he can get away. He’s one of the best we’ve faced." Loston: "Our plan was to try to keep him in the pocket, make him beat us from the pocket. We did a pretty good job of keeping him bottled up throughout the whole game. We kept him in the pocket for the most part, and he caught us in a couple of errors, but I think our D-line did a great job of collapsing things around him and forcing him into some pressure throws." Davis: "He’s kind of hard to prepare for. He’s a defensive coordinator’s nightmare. He can beat you with his feet and his arm. It’s tough to prepare for a guy like Johnny Manziel because not many guys can play like that, so it’s hard to [simulate]."
I don't think you even know what you like. And RG3 got his team to the playoffs in his first year so obviously you have no clue what a pro ready QB is. Only what you think a pro QB should be.
He wasn't figured out, he wasn't healthy... What do you think San Francisco, Carolina, and Seattle run...??? Philly runs a lot of college style plays too. I'm not saying you're wrong. The NFL is...
If you watched football, you notice that those same teams didn't run the RO nearly as much this season...
If you watch football you will see that defenses still respect the threat of it because teams are using pistol formations as well. You can throw Kansas City (another playoff team) in that mix as well.
Man, just to imagine having a player like that on the Texans....after the Schaub years. Everyone's game plan was trying to contain him, limit his field. Must be nice, not watching a defense just sit back waiting for the obvious play.
