Johnny Manziel is vowing to "pour his heart out for the Dawg Pound" should the Cleveland Browns prove able to make good on their dogged pursuits of landing the former Heisman Trophy winner among the top picks in the upcoming NFL Draft.
Though Manziel's hometown Houston Texans currently hold the top pick in the draft, the Browns, who currently own the fourth pick have made no secret of their desperate hopes in landing the former Texas A&M star.
"If something happens, and it's the Cleveland Browns, I'm going to pour my heart out for the Dawg Pound and try to win a Super Bowl for Cleveland," Manziel told ESPN. "I don't care if they've had 20 starting quarterbacks since 1999. I'm going to be the 21st and the guy that brought them the Super Bowl."
ESPN reports Manziel has been training in San Diego for the last several weeks with quarterback guru George Whitfield Jr., who has tutored Manziel for three years. Besides focussing on his mechanics and fundamentals, Manziel is determined to dispel his "Johnny Football" image with NFL interviewers at the NFL combines kick off in Indianapolis later this month.
"I was a kid who made some goofball decisions,"Manziel told ESPN. "That's been part of my journey. Maybe it's part of the whole Johnny Football deal that I'm trying to get away from. I'm trying to show people I've grown up, and I've learned from my experiences. I feel like you're a stupid person if you continue to make the same wrong decisions."
Manziel later added "Johnny Football is the stuff you see on TMZ. There's part of that folktale that goes along with it and tries to twist me into somebody I'm not all the time. I feel like now there's kind of like this frozen food package - a pre-wrapped, pre-cooked package of who I am."
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