re: why do so many people hate Johnny manziel as a football player?

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I get that the guy hasn't done hardly anything in the nfl, and his partying is out of control and probably why he isn't on a roster right now, but to say the guy can't play football is ridiculous. He's never truly had a shot in the NFL, having only started a handful of games and was never allowed to be the day 1 starter in Cleveland for an entire season. He's had some bad performances sure, but plenty of good quarterbacks have struggled when they first entered the league, and he'said had some pretty good games as well, even though he was on a terrible team with a coach that seemed to Want him to fail. You can hate Johnny as a person, but to hate him as a football player is absurd.

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to tell you the truth I respect him more as a guy than a football player. As a guy, he does what 90% of guys in his position of pulling any tail he wants, has money and fame would do.

As a football player, I'm not sure I have ever seen a guy better at extending a play as he was but as a quarterback he was a joke. I didn't watch him week in and week out so I might be off base a lot but Mike Evans and Swope bailed him out A LOT for what I saw. There were a lot of piss poor decisions that he made on the field that got caught do to his receivers being that good.