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Learning is a skill. Work ethic is a skill as well, and the best
of the best know this and work on this part of their life. Here is the original article, and his
response is written out below:
“If
you would give me the mulligan, the mulligan would have had to come right after
I got drafted,” he said. “I see successful guys in the NFL, and what they do in
the offseason, and the time that they put in, that makes them good players.
Yes, they’re athletically gifted, but guys are good in the NFL because they
know film, they study hard, and they work even harder in the offseason. I
didn’t know that.
“And
I feel like … if Cleveland did any of their homework, they would have known
that I was a guy that didn’t come in every day and watch film, I was a guy that
didn’t really know the Xs and Os of football. I played in a spread offense. We
looked at bubbles, we looked at flats, we had progression reads across the
field; it wasn’t like it was a super-intricate pro system. So when I get to
Cleveland, there’s a quarterback in the room with me that’s not helping me
[presumably Brian Hoyer, who started 13 games that
season]. And it’s not really his job to, but nobody was there really helping me
go over the Xs and Os and it was hard. I struggled.
“And
then getting on the practice field, I lost a lot of confidence after my first
couple days there. This was the first time in my life, at least (since) my
freshman year of high school, that I wasn’t playing really well, that I didn’t
come out the first day and throw the ball around and make a lot of completions
and score touchdowns and everything – I struggled.
“And
from there, that’s when the depression started to come, that’s when some things
mental health-wise started to really change what was going on in my life, but I
would go back to after the draft and getting with someone, or putting in extra
time, or whatever it was, to make sure that I really, genuinely understood what
was going on. There was a lot of winging it and not a lot of knowing exactly
what I was doing because it was a hard transition for me. I didn’t know
everything.
“The
next year, when I got with Josh
McCown, that guy was like, ‘listen: if you want to, you can come
with me everyday. You can get here when I get here, you can leave when I leave,
if you want to be good, just follow what I’m doing. I’ve been doing this for a
long time, and there’s a reason that I’m still in the league this long down the
road.’ Me and him got along great.”
Patrick
interjected, “He’s a good dude. He really is,” speaking of McCown.
“He’s
awesome,” Manziel said enthusiastically. “He gave me a blueprint, and that’s
something that I still have to this day: he gave me a nice blueprint of what it
takes to be a solid pro, and I’m very thankful to Josh and all that he did for
me in Cleveland.”
"If Cleveland did any of their homework they would have known I wasn't a guy who came in every day and watch film. I wasn't a guy who really knew the X's and O's of football." - Johnny Manziel (@JManziel2) pic.twitter.com/7m2In1Z4JT— Dan Patrick Show (@dpshow) April 4, 2018
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