Time for the Browns to end the Johnny Manziel party

With the release of the latest Johnny Manziel party video, it is time for the Cleveland Browns to move on from the troubled quarterback.

With the release of the latest video depicting Johnny Manziel and his unquenchable desire for the bottle and the party rather than the playbook and the Cleveland Browns, the time has come to turn out the lights on the Manziel Saga.

Time after time, Manziel was given opportunities to show the Cleveland Browns brass, coaching staff and, most importantly the fans, that he was on point to live up to the high expectations of a first-round pick. Time after time he promised to prepare, to be better, to not do anything to embarrass the team. This latest video, depicting Manziel in what appears to be a drunken stupor, is the final straw. Its time to give Manziel his outright release.

One can just hear the Manziel apologists crowing, “No don’t cut him, he’ll just go somewhere else and become a star.” Maybe, but his childish behavior and repeated lies to this already troubled organization are too much to take. No thank you, it’s time to call it a day.

Apparently, owner Jimmy Haslam and head coach Mike Pettine have met with Manziel and have made the determiation that not only is the video recent, but that it clearly demonstrates a violation of the trust they placed in Manziel and his words. After having been named the starter for the remaining six games, Manziel thought that was reason to party, literally within hours of promising the Browns that he’d “lay low” during the by week.

Johnny, you are a child. A wealthy, spoiled, lying, child. Given incredible God-given talent, you chose to hang out with a bunch of enablers, rather than spending time doing what team leaders do, staying put and studying, throwing and watching film. Named the starter in what you claim is your dream job, you choose to drink and throw away your chance to prove your worth. The Browns placed incredible trust and opportunity in your lap and you choose to lie to their faces.

The public relations firm that represents you must have told you not to engage in such activities, but one surmises that you didn’t get the memo. Your gigantic “Johnny Football” persona has done nothing in the NFL. A couple of lofty statistics in losses don’t buy you a blank check to do whatever.

You need to be a leader on this team, not a 12-year-old hanging out with a bunch of guys who want to take “selfies” with you and tipping a champagne bottle in your parents’ basement. Johnny you are the King of Social Media, you cannot possibly tell us or the team that you didn’t embrace and go searching for that limelight, the camera, the party.

How stupid can you be to not know there would be camera phones documenting every move you make? People get paid by places like TMZ to get the “scoop” on people like you. Are you so infantile that you aren’t aware of this fact?

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What message did you send to your teammates, to your coaches, to the fans? You told them that you think you are bigger than the team, bigger than the opportunity, and bigger than everything you’ve been given in this life. Congratulations, get familiar with the clipboard as you’ve been demoted to the third quarterback. Any trust you garnered with the Browns ownership, coaches and teammates is gone, never to be recovered. You’ve had your chance, heck, you’ve had many chances, you’re writing checks your body can’t cash.

All the talk is over. All the hype is over. All the promise is over. You are over, Johnny.

The fans of this team have suffered enough, this year and every year since 1999. You are just the latest in a long line of utter disappointments. Players and coaches in whom we’ve placed trust and hope, who have dashed our dreams. People who claim to be pros who prove to be much less than professional.

Once again, those of us with a drop of hope for the future of this team find ourselves wishing for a complete tank for the rest of the current season, resulting in the No. 1 pick in the next drat. Then the Browns will hopefully find the quarterback they have needed, craved and dreamed about since Bernie Kosar was drawing up plays in the dirt of old Cleveland Municipal Stadium.

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