re: Does Johnny Manziel have the Mental Toughness to Handle the Media?

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Word from practice yesterday



I don't know how it works at A&M, but at Bama the "word from practice yesterday" is usually that the 4th string QB looks like Joe Montana and at least 5 or 6 of our true freshman could start in the NFL right now.

Then the season starts...

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Truth.

In fairness though the practices are closed outside of the first 5 minutes at A&M and the folks talking him up are fellow players. The little footage shown of him at practice has him looking very relaxed and even dancing to the music played some while nailing his first few warmup throws.

I don't think Johnny has figured out to handle the media but I also think it doesn't affect his game at all, if anything he seems to thrive under pressure. In the OU game in the first half it looked more like the rest of the team was still distracted while Johnny was 100% locked in. Make no mistake, if he plays this year he is going to be even harder to stop than last year.