{"id":10037,"date":"2014-04-28T16:14:08","date_gmt":"2014-04-28T20:14:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/?p=10037"},"modified":"2014-04-28T16:14:08","modified_gmt":"2014-04-28T20:14:08","slug":"cowboys-not-talking-about-johnny-manziel-draft-speculation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/2014\/04\/28\/cowboys-not-talking-about-johnny-manziel-draft-speculation\/","title":{"rendered":"Cowboys not talking about Johnny Manziel draft speculation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_10038\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10038\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/04\/johnnymanziel.jpg\" alt=\"getty images\" width=\"594\" height=\"405\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10038\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/04\/johnnymanziel.jpg 594w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/04\/johnnymanziel-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/files\/2014\/04\/johnnymanziel-50x34.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10038\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">getty images<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nThe Dallas Cowboys have a capable quarterback in Tony Romo. Still there somehow became speculation this weekend that the Cowboys could draft a quarterback early, namely Johnny Manziel in the first round.<\/p>\n<p>While appearing on 105.3 The Fan, Vince President Stephen Jones said, via the <a href=\"http:\/\/cowboysblog.dallasnews.com\/2014\/04\/stephen-jones-not-saying-much-about-johnny-manziel-because-cowboys-havent-sorted-out-the-qbs-in-this-draft.html\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Dallas Morning News<\/a> \u201cThere\u2019s not anything I can say about it,\u201d adding that \u201cWe haven\u2019t quite gotten into sorting out the quarterbacks yet, that will come, in terms of finalizing our board.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some begin to speculate over the past week that if Manziel was on the board when the Cowboys selected at No. 16 that they could select the former Texas A&#038;M signal caller.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only thing I\u2019ll say about Johnny Manziel is he obviously had a great career in college, one of the greatest college football players that I\u2019ve watched in terms of exciting and being a great competitor,\u201d Stephen Jones said. \u201cThose are things we\u2019ll work through and there\u2019s a lot of things that go into where you ultimately put a player on your board.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jones did not answer questions which asked if the Cowboys would select Manziel at No. 16.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think those are all things that we\u2019ll have to work out,\u201d he responded. \u201cPurely speculation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Cowboys have needs all over their defense so drafting a backup quarterback at No. 16 seems highly questionable, unless the team truly believes in Manziel ala the Green Bay Packers selecting Aaron Rodgers while Brett Favre was still on their roster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dallas Cowboys have a capable quarterback in Tony Romo. Still there somehow became speculation this weekend that the Cowboys could draft a quarterback early, namely Johnny Manziel in the first round. While appearing on 105.3 The Fan, Vince President Stephen Jones said, via the Dallas Morning News \u201cThere\u2019s not anything I can say about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10038,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[35,606],"coauthors":[4],"class_list":["post-10037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-dallas-cowboys","tag-johnny-manziel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10039,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10037\/revisions\/10039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10037"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=10037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}