{"id":10294,"date":"2014-05-14T17:24:52","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T21:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=10294"},"modified":"2014-05-14T17:24:52","modified_gmt":"2014-05-14T21:24:52","slug":"tony-romo-was-not-concerned-about-cowboys-drafting-johnny-manziel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/05\/14\/tony-romo-was-not-concerned-about-cowboys-drafting-johnny-manziel\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Romo was not concerned about Cowboys drafting Johnny Manziel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Johnny Manziel was on the board when the Dallas Cowboys drafted at No. 16 in this years NFL Draft. After weeks of rumors suggesting that the Cowboys would take the former Texas A&M quarterback they passed.<\/p>\n

Manziel was eventually selected at No. 22 by the Cleveland Browns but the stories about how teams viewed him have been unending.<\/p>\n

One player who had no worries about the Cowboys potentially drafting Manziel is current signal caller Tony Romo.<\/p>\n

Cowboys chief operating officer Stephen Jones spoke about a conversation with Romo while appearing on\u00a0Mad Dog Sports Radio\u2019s Schein on Sports show, via the Dallas Morning News<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course, his response, as you might expect from Tony,\u201d Jones\u00a0said , \u201cwas, \u2018Well, if you decide to, it ain\u2019t going to matter, there\u2019s no one out there who can beat me out.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s as excited as he has ever been,\u201d Stephen said. \u201cHe really likes what Scott Linehan has in mind for our offense. He feels like with the moves we made during the draft and solidifying our offensive line and some of the weapons we have, he\u2019s never been more excited about our football team in terms of what we can get accomplished.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Johnny Manziel was on the board when the Dallas Cowboys drafted at No. 16 in this years NFL Draft. After weeks of rumors suggesting that the Cowboys would take the former Texas A&M quarterback they passed. Manziel was eventually selected at No. 22 by the Cleveland Browns but the stories about how teams viewed him […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[35,606,216,99],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-10294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-dallas-cowboys","9":"tag-johnny-manziel","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-tony-romo"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10295,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10294\/revisions\/10295"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10294"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}