The Johnny Manziel phenomenon — his get up to stardom as Texas A&M’s “Jonny Football” taking the SEC through typhoon as a freshman quarterback sensation in 2012, later his similarly genius downfall with the Cleveland Browns within the NFL — has been captured in a unused Netflix documentary: Untold: Johnny Soccer.

The movie is a uncooked, no-holds-barred have a look at each Manziel’s family stardom and fall from grace at the grassland, and his non-public struggles off it. It additionally distinguishable some fantastic claims about his sport preparation behavior — or dearth thereof.

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Listed below are one of the maximum worthy nuggets from the documentary that had been going viral on social media following its let go.

Manziel watched 0 sport movie throughout his Browns profession

Within the recollection of Manziel’s then-agent Erik Burkhardt, he won a decision one hour from Browns normal supervisor Ray Farmer. The Browns had given Manziel an iPad to observe sport movie and may monitor how a lot hour he spent on that iPad. What they discovered shocked Burkhardt.

“Their GM’s calling me, saying, ‘He doesn’t watch tape,” Burkhardt says within the documentary, “I’m like, ‘Well, he’s gotta watch some tape.’ He’s like, ‘EB, his iPad hours is at 0.00.’”

The movie later cuts to Manziel himself protecting up his left hand cupped in a circle.

“Zero,” Manziel confirms.

The yarn invokes a indistinguishable one involving former Negative. 1 total select JaMarcus Russell throughout his hour with the Raiders, simply with some more moderen generation to smell out Manziel’s obvious laziness. As Russell’s former teammate David Diehl nearest recalled in a radio interview, the Raiders (within the days earlier than iPads and display screen hour monitoring) gave Russell some video tapes that ostensibly confirmed combatants’ blitz applications, and the later hour, Russell confirmed as much as follow announcing he had considered the movie. The Raiders knew he used to be mendacity — since the tapes had been deserted.

Colin Cowherd reacted to the revelation about Manziel’s dearth of movie find out about Wednesday’s episode of “The Herd,” ripping Manziel for now not honoring the funding that enthusiasts put into observing him play games through now not making an investment any of his personal hour into making ready for the ones video games.

“Fans make such a financial and emotional commitment to their favorite football teams,” Cowherd mentioned. “The tailgating, the tickets, the fantasy leagues, the merchandise. … And your quarterback won’t commit to watching tape? That is discouraging. It’s hard to wrap your brain around. It’s literally the opposite of what Kirk Cousins and Marcus Mariota are in their Netflix special.”

That tale about Manziel will not be essentially the most sudden to many, on the other hand, given how a lot he struggled in his NFL profession — and given what one among his longtime pals mentioned about Manziel’s behavior as a faculty celebrity.

Ex-high college teammate: ‘Never saw him look at a playbook ever’

Nate Fitch, who has recognized Manziel since heart college and used to be with him during the quarterback’s get up to school stardom at Texas A&M, claims that he by no means noticed the 2012 Heisman Trophy winner ever have a look at a playbook, let rejected sit down indisposed for movie find out about.

Manziel had his agent run routes for him at a exercise for the Browns; unpriviledged into A&M deposit to get cleats

Prior to Manziel’s non-public pre-draft exercise with the staff that might sooner or later select him, Manziel stayed up partying together with his huge receivers — to the purpose that most effective the quarterback himself used to be ready to bundle himself and display as much as the Texas A&M follow facility to determine with Browns coaches. Thus, Burkhardt needed to be the only working routes for him.

Then visible clips of himself speaking about his enjoy with Manziel proceed viral on social media, Burkhardt expanded upon every other tale within the documentary. 

Oh, and Manziel had misplaced his apparatus bag the evening earlier than, and it used to be a leisure weekend, so the 2 needed to crack right into a closed Texas A&M apparatus cage to bring to get equipment for the exercise — and ended up with stiff offensive-lineman-sized cleats and negligible A&M branded shorts that Manziel had old as boxers the evening earlier than.

Manziel has now not performed within the NFL since 2015 and has now not performed soccer professionally since 2022 within the now-dormant “Fan Controlled Football” league. The documentary incorporates clear depictions of Manziel’s struggles with drug habit in addition to a recounting of a suicide try, so viewer discretion is suggested.

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