{"id":302112,"date":"2014-05-24T03:08:10","date_gmt":"2014-05-24T08:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=302112"},"modified":"2014-05-24T17:01:17","modified_gmt":"2014-05-24T22:01:17","slug":"manziel-passes-first-test-with-browns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=302112","title":{"rendered":"Manziel Passes First Test with Browns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/05\/Johnny-Manziel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/05\/Johnny-Manziel-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Johnny Manziel\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-302113\" \/><\/a>CLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 Tyler&#8217;s Johnny Manziel spent his first weekend in the NFL hanging around other rookies and unsigned free agents. He&#8217;s about to take the field with the bigger boys. Manziel, who had a &#8220;positive&#8221; rookie minicamp with Cleveland, will practice this week with the club&#8217;s veteran players, including Brian Hoyer, the quarterback he&#8217;ll try to unseat as starter. Browns first-year coach Mike Pettine made it clear that Manziel and Hoyer realize what&#8217;s at stake and that their competitive juices are already flowing.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know if they&#8217;re going to be sending each other Christmas cards anytime soon,&#8221; Pettine said of the relationship between Manziel and Hoyer. &#8220;But they both know they&#8217;re in it together and they&#8217;re going to compete. I think they both feel comfortable that, as a staff, we&#8217;re going to put the best quarterback that puts us in position to win games, we&#8217;re going to put him out there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pettine spoke Monday after appearing with Indians manager Terry Francona at a Positive Coaching Alliance breakfast at FirstEnergy Stadium. Pettine reported that Manziel, the uber-hyped former Texas A&#038;M star, succeeded in every aspect of the three-day minicamp, which was only open to the media for 15 minutes on Saturday as the team tries to curtail &#8220;Manzielmania.&#8221; The Browns have relaxed their media limitations to see the rookie quarterback. The Browns are now allowing national media to cover next week\u2019s workout<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 Tyler&#8217;s Johnny Manziel spent his first weekend in the NFL hanging around other rookies and unsigned free agents. He&#8217;s about to take the field with the bigger boys. Manziel, who had a &#8220;positive&#8221; rookie minicamp with Cleveland, will practice this week with the club&#8217;s veteran players, including Brian Hoyer, the quarterback he&#8217;ll &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=302112\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Manziel Passes First Test with Browns<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-11 04:29:09","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=302112"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302115,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302112\/revisions\/302115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=302112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=302112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=302112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}