In giving Johnny Manziel the starting quarterback job for the final four games of this miserable season, the Cleveland Browns needed to see one thing more than anything else: conclusive evidence.
The Browns are going into this offseason with a potential top three draft pick. Knowing there’s a decent crop of rookie QBs to be had, Cleveland needed to know, without a shadow of a doubt, what it had in Manziel. If he was going to bad, he needed to be conclusively bad. If he was going to be good, he needed to be conclusively good.
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