Johnny Manziel Says He Saw Movie ‘ZERO’ During Time With Cleveland Browns When NFL First Round Dropped In Two Seasons
- Johnny Manziel seemed lost on the field in the NFL for two Browns seasons
- And a revelation in his new documentary partially explains his struggle
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Johnny Manziel has revealed that he watched “zero” game movies during his brief stint with the Cleveland Browns, an admission that isn’t too surprising given his on-court play.
The 22nd overall pick in the 2014 draft, Manziel only lasted two seasons with the team as he threw just seven touchdowns in eight starts.
And in an excerpt from the new Netflix documentary “Untold: Johnny Football,” the ex-Brown and his former agent, Erik Burkhardt, put into perspective how little he had prepared for his job.
“Their GMs call me, ‘He’s not looking at tape,'” Burkhardt said. “I’m like, ‘Well, he needs to watch a tape.'”
Johnny Manziel Admitted He Didn’t See A Game Movie In The NFL In ‘Untold: Johnny Football’
“He says, ‘EB, his iPad hours are 0.00.'”
“Zero,” Manziel then said as the camera panned on him, raising his hand in the shape of the number.
Manziel, who revealed his bipolar diagnosis in 2018, battled substance abuse issues throughout his NFL career.
And the now 30-year-old found himself in a dark place following his 2016 release from the Browns.
Manziel revealed in the documentary that a malfunctioning gun was the only thing that kept him from committing suicide when his life spiraled out of control.
“I think I was just running from trouble,” Manziel said. “Direct self-sabotage, trying to burn this thing down.
“I planned to do whatever I wanted to do at that point in my life. Spending as much money as possible and then my plan was to take my life.
Manziel was fired by the Browns in 2016 after poor discipline and his life spiraled out of control
“Months earlier I bought a gun that I knew I would use. I wanted it to get as bad as humanly possible to where it made sense, and it seemed like an excuse and a way out for me.
“Still, to this day I don’t know what happened, but the gun just clicked on me.”
While the Browns are known for their notoriously long list of quarterbacks in the modern era, Manziel blamed himself for his struggles in Cleveland.
“I didn’t go to Texas A&M thinking I’d play two years and end up in the NFL Draft,” he said.
“And I tell people all the time that it wouldn’t have mattered where I was, what team. Wherever it was in my life at that time, I was unable to be a good NFL quarterback.”