{"id":12320,"date":"2014-10-29T22:43:09","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T02:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=12320"},"modified":"2014-10-29T22:43:09","modified_gmt":"2014-10-30T02:43:09","slug":"browns-coach-says-team-will-not-force-starting-johnny-manziel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/10\/29\/browns-coach-says-team-will-not-force-starting-johnny-manziel\/","title":{"rendered":"Browns coach says team will not force starting Johnny Manziel"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe Cleveland Browns are still staying the course with Brian Hoyer as their starter. Few could have expected the Browns to be 4-3 at this point so Hoyer at-least deserves some credit for his game manager ability.<\/p>\n

While Hoyer continues to start, the big question remains what is going to happen with first round pick Johnny Manziel. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s a position that can be frustrating,\u201d Pettine said via the Akron Beacon Journal<\/a>. \u201cTo go from being the guy at A&M, that\u2019s a tough thing as the reality of the season has clearly set in. But at the same time, we make sure that he\u2019s preparing like a starter. [An injury] can happen in the span of one play.”<\/p>\n

But can Manziel play at the NFL level?<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we all do [want to know how Manziel would perform],\u201d Pettine said. \u201cI mean, that\u2019s a question that we need to have answered, but it\u2019s not something that you can force. I mean, Brian\u2019s our starting quarterback. That\u2019s a difficult thing to say, \u2018Let\u2019s just go ahead and [play Manziel].\u2019 All the games are meaningful now.<\/p>\n

The Browns host Tampa Bay on Sunday before playing against division rival Cincinnati next Thursday. Hoyer is one bad start away from being yanked.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Cleveland Browns are still staying the course with Brian Hoyer as their starter. Few could have expected the Browns to be 4-3 at this point so Hoyer at-least deserves some credit for his game manager ability. While Hoyer continues to start, the big question remains what is going to happen with first round pick […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12250,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[139,426,606,216],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":{"0":"post-12320","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","8":"tag-cleveland-browns","9":"tag-front","10":"tag-johnny-manziel","11":"tag-nfl"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12320","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=12320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12321,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12320\/revisions\/12321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12320"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=12320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}