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10:45 PM no mention of Bills-Jets game on ESPN.com but the Manziel non-story is still up. Media is click and ad driven. Sad.

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10:45 PM no mention of Bills-Jets game on ESPN.com but the Manziel non-story is still up. Media is click and ad driven. Sad.

 

ESPN is awful but to a lot of the nation, that wasn't a big game.

 

Manziel has become Tebow where he's off the field stuff makes more news than him actually playing. At least Tebow didn't bring it on himself.

 

But it's awesome for us. Let them spend the week talking about their backup qb.

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In reality, you can honestly take it either way. You can see he needs to be okay with fans coming up to him and touching him, sure. But isn't he at more risk? A stranger grabs me, I'm not too worried for my personal safety, but Johnny Football has a much better chance of getting stabbed by a random crazy Alabama fan, no?

 

I understand that, but if part of your job is "Celebrity" and you stoke that (as he clearly does) you have to deal with the consequences. If that worried him, he could step back on his "bad boy" image, not stay out in public late at night, not have a huge media presence, etc. He make a ton of money, above and beyond his football contract, due to his celebrity status. Don't like the gig? Don't play the role. But I think the bigger issue is his continual public displays go against what he has been asked to do by the owner of the team. I would be shocked if his teammates think his behavior reflects what they expect from their backup QB. Had he been called on to play Sunday, do you think he would have been prepared? Or do you think it is more likely he would have pulled a Billy Jo Hobart/Mike Vick "I was unprepared this week"?

 

I'm betting it would be the later. And had he not performed, with this story breaking, what would be the fallout? Dude has to grow up.

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Looking at that picture of him and Hoyer little johnny is a skinny little punk too

lol

 

He needs to hit the weights and the playbook and forget the nightlife for a while

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Exactly. When I was his age getting in a scuffle was no big deal. If no one ended up in the hospital or in jail it was a good night. I don't know what it was like for those who spent Friday night at choir practice.

 

Set the bar low enough and I guess Johnny looks good.

 

I doubt any of us represented a muti-billion dollar company or were looked upon as someone in a position to lead a professional football team to victories. But even so, I had no position of great responsibility or special expectations. We never got into scuffles (seriously only idiot get into bar fights) but we did party extremely hard. Yes, we took drugs, drove under the influence, etc. Not proud of it, but it is the truth. You know what we didn't do? Get caught. One would think a guy who continues to draw negative attention to himself would figure out a different way to go about things. Seems clear to me, he simply doesn't' care.

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Set the bar low enough and I guess Johnny looks good.

 

I doubt any of us represented a muti-billion dollar company or were looked upon as someone in a position to lead a professional football team to victories. But even so, I had no position of great responsibility or special expectations. We never got into scuffles (seriously only idiot get into bar fights) but we did party extremely hard. Yes, we took drugs, drove under the influence, etc. Not proud of it, but it is the truth. You know what we didn't do? Get caught. One would think a guy who continues to draw negative attention to himself would figure out a different way to go about things. Seems clear to me, he simply doesn't' care.

Just the fact that he is out at 230 am during the season is enough for me. Thats not taking care of yourself. Sure you can pull it off. Many of us did. But we also suffered the next day or so.

The guy almost seems to be looking for a situation. Maybe he is frustrated standing behind Hoyer ?

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The Hamilton Tiger-Cats are in his future.

 

They wouldn't take Tebow, from what I understand, and he is a choir boy.

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Other way around: Tebow didn't want to play in Canada

 

From what I understand, no CFL team guaranteed him the starting QB spot. Here's one example:

 

http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap1000000165254/article/might-tim-tebow-make-it-to-cfls-montreal-alouettes

 

He also may not have wanted to play in Canada, but the my point was, as far as I can tell, no CFL team was offering him a #1 QB spot.

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