I am congratulating Jerry

[Joe Realist]

I know, I know - I must be crazy. Despite his contradictory comments he has made about passing on Johnny Manziel, he DID the right thing by not drafting him.

Each day that passes (and another Johnny Football video surfaces - like recent one with him using stacks of cash as a phone), I am grateful that the circus is in Cleveland and not with the Cowboys. If he is a Cowboy and these same things occur, the coverage, scrutiny and distractions would be suffocating and unbearable.

Thanks Jerry!

 

[jazzcat22]

Also thanks to Jerry for doing a great GM move, to sign Weeden, as Orton has been a no show.
Give credit where credit is due, though some won't claim this is a JJ move....

 

[big dog cowboy]

We've made a lot of right moves this off season. Passing on JF is just one.

 

[DallasEast]

I know, I know - I must be crazy. Despite his contradictory comments he has made about passing on Johnny Manziel, he DID the right thing by not drafting him.

Each day that passes (and another Johnny Football video surfaces - like recent one with him using stacks of cash as a phone), I am grateful that the circus is in Cleveland and not with the Cowboys. If he is a Cowboy and these same things occur, the coverage, scrutiny and distractions would be suffocating and unbearable.

Thanks Jerry!

DANGER, WILL ROBINSON! DANGER!​

 

[Dcowboy84]

While i agree that passing on him was the right move football wise, I actually don't think there would be as much of a circus if he was in Dallas.

What i mean by that is I don't think you'd be seeing all these trips to Vegas and such. It's very likely if he was with us they would have given him restrictions to help him avoid these picture and video events he's dealt with thus far.

The media circus is here no matter what so that is unavoidable but i think our infrastructure would have put guidelines in place for him.


I may be in the minority since i don't hear it discussed much or at all, but I actually think Cleveland is encouraging the behavior and doesn't care at all because it is getting them more national media attention than they've received in years.

For having such a "hard-nosed", "all-business" new head coach there he has really brushed a lot of it off and the only time he really mentions Johnny is when he says that he's the backup to Hoyer.

 

[JD_KaPow]

I'm just thrilled I don't have to root for that guy. It's similar (but not as egregious) to Roethlisberger: I'm free to hate him for being a rotten human being without the cognitive dissonance that would come with him being on the Cowboys.

 

[EST_1986]

I don't agree with passing on Manziel but Jerry made a tough decision and upgraded the team and the offseason has been pretty good considering our situation Jerry has put us in.

 

[Alexander]

While i agree that passing on him was the right move football wise, I actually don't think there would be as much of a circus if he was in Dallas..

It would be even worse. This team is already a magnet for negative press, Manziel acting like the kid he is would be blown up to epic proportions. From the swan incident on. Dallas is not unique in the way they can insulate their players. They just tend to avoid players like that.

 

[birdwells1]

I know, I know - I must be crazy. Despite his contradictory comments he has made about passing on Johnny Manziel, he DID the right thing by not drafting him.

Each day that passes (and another Johnny Football video surfaces - like recent one with him using stacks of cash as a phone), I am grateful that the circus is in Cleveland and not with the Cowboys. If he is a Cowboy and these same things occur, the coverage, scrutiny and distractions would be suffocating and unbearable.

Thanks Jerry!

I like the Martin pick but until Manziel bombs out on the field I'll withhold judgement.

 

[jazzcat22]

It would be even worse. This team is already a magnet for negative press, Manziel acting like the kid he is would be blown up to epic proportions. From the swan incident on. Dallas is not unique in the way they can insulate their players. They just tend to avoid players like that.

Oh how true that is.
If Manziel, or any other player does something while on another team, and gets some negative press, but not a lot. No one says much. for a Minor insignificant incidence.
but for that same player doing the same thing for Dallas, it's, wow, that organization is out of control, it's a country club, Jerry is not a good GM to control his players...well, you know the drill....

 

[bark]

While i agree that passing on him was the right move football wise, I actually don't think there would be as much of a circus if he was in Dallas.

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I think it would be 1000x worse

 

[Alexander]

Oh how true that is.
If Manziel, or any other player does something while on another team, and gets some negative press, but not a lot. No one says much. for a Minor insignificant incidence.
but for that same player doing the same thing for Dallas, it's, wow, that organization is out of control, it's a country club, Jerry is not a good GM to control his players...well, you know the drill....

In a way, Cleveland might be one of the few places where Manziel would be insulated as the team keeps a very low profile. The only reason this trip of his is news is well, people are bored.

 

[casmith07]

Circus is exactly the right word. Johnny Circus.

 

[Vinnie2u]

Not Re-doing Carrs contract was another good move....

 

[Hostile]

I think other people deserve a lot of the credit for passing on Manziel. The team made a collaborative decision on the direction to go. He was not ever in our plans. It wasn't Jerry alone that decided that. I know of one very high ranking Cowboys official who was a voice against taking him. The consensus was to go in another direction. It was the right move.

 

[Cowboy_Shawn]

Let's see how well Manziel performs on the field first before propping Jerry for passing on him.

I don't have a single issue with anything Manziel is doing.

He's done nothing illegal. All he's done is take a few vacation trips during his down time and posted a few pics of him having harmless fun on social media sites.

Big deal. He's 21 years old and enjoying himself.

Honestly I have less of a problem with all of Manziel's trips than I did with Romo and Witten's Cabo trip in 20907. At least Manziel has the common sense to party and relax during the offseason. Meanwhile, our two of our "leaders" were vacationing it up during the playoffs.

 

[morasp]

DANGER, WILL ROBINSON! DANGER!​

I said that to some of the younger engineers I worked with and they didn't know what I was talking about.

 

[Hostile]

I said that to some of the younger engineers I worked with and they didn't know what I was talking about.

That's too bad.

 

[Joe Realist]

I think other people deserve a lot of the credit for passing on Manziel. The team made a collaborative decision on the direction to go. He was not ever in our plans. It wasn't Jerry alone that decided that. I know of one very high ranking Cowboys official who was a voice against taking him. The consensus was to go in another direction. It was the right move.

of course

 

[morasp]

That's too bad.

It was the first time it hit me that I was getting older.