After one weekend of preseason action the score you those at home is Johnny Manziel: one, Brian Hoyer: zero.
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Manziel outplayed the veteran Hoyer in the first live action for the Browns this season, but coach Mike Pettine remains adamant that Hoyer is leading the quarterback competition.
"We put Brian out there with the ones, and that was for a reason," Pettine said of the preseason opener in Detroit on Saturday. "Because he was ahead, because of his edge in experience and the lead he had with the playbook. And he's done nothing to have that taken away from him.
"But Johnny has made some improvement, a lot of improvement. He's come in, and the things where he was behind in the spring, I think he's got a pretty firm grasp on. As we said before, it was him versus the playbook, and he's handling it well.”
Reports had leaked out of Cleveland that Manziel had overtaken Hoyer for the starting quarterback position, but Pettine said that those rumors are simply not true. The quarterback battle has reached into the locker room as well in Cleveland as starting safety Donte Whitner said that the team is split between the two.
“It’s been fierce,” Whitner said. “Two guys fighting for their lives. It’s close. I’d say [the locker room] is split about 50-50. We know they both can play.”
Manziel is set to start the Browns second preseason game against the Washington Redskins on Monday Night Football and the teams is expected to make a decision on the regular season starter soon after.
Hoyer started the Browns 13-12 loss to the Detroit Lions and finished with a stat line of 6-for-14 for 92 yards, while Manziel finished 7-for-11 for 63 yards and added another 27 yards fishing on six attempts.
[ESPN]
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