Johnny Manziel admitted in his new Netflix documentary that he watched ZERO tape during his time with the #Browns.
Johnny Manziel — the former Cleveland Browns quarterback and Heisman Trophy winner — is the subject of a striking new Netflix documentary.
“UNTOLD: Johnny Football” details the once-superstar’s rapid rise to fame and glory as a teenage sensation at Texas A&M, his tumultuous journey from college to the pros, and the personal struggles that nearly took his life after his NFL career flamed out shortly after it began.
“I thought this would be a great opportunity for me to come in and revitalize the franchise,” Manziel said in the documentary. “It didn’t take me very long to be in Cleveland to find out I wasn’t going to be happy there.
“I had every single thing I could have wanted. You have money, you have fame, you’re a first-round draft pick. You’re going to be battling for a starting quarterback position. When I got everything I wanted, I think it was the most empty I ever felt inside.”
Burkhardt said Manziel could have been a success in the NFL, but Manziel “never worked at it.”
Manziel said he watched “zero” tape to prepare for games while he was with the Browns.
“I still get a lot of questions regarding football and regarding a past career, and I want to put the whole Johnny Football thing to rest,” he added. “Even though it’ll never quite fully go away, at least for the majority of people in my interactions in daily life, I want to be able to put this story out there and just let it be what it is.”
Erik Burkhardt, Manziel’s former agent, revealed in the documentary that the Texas A&M fourth-string quarterback supplied his own urine when Manziel was drug tested in college.
Burkhardt said Manziel drank gallons of water before the Combine and passed his drug test, beating the system again.
Blake Bortles, taken by the Jaguars with the third pick in 2014, was the only quarterback drafted before the Browns took a chance on Manziel — a gamble they quickly regretted.
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