02-28-2014, 04:47 PM
Quote:You do not take Manziel if the idea is to try to alter his game much. You take Manziel if you think he can bring some of that magic of his college game to the NFL.I agree totally with your point. If we draft MAnziel, I want the Manziel who did what he did in college.
Although Flaherty didn't seem to speak so much about changing Johnny's throwing mechanics, or that he couldn't or wouldn't scramble in the NFL, or really of altering any fundamental part of his college game that made him so great. Only that 1)he's building more muscle to play against bigger competition, especially in his legs. And 2)he's learning the art of sliding.
What he deemed 'injury prevention'. Something Johnny clearly didn't even know existed in college. And something if RG3 would have known and worked on his freshman year in the NFL, would have prolly saved him from injury and surgery.
Hopefully though just the fact that he's working on that, will dispel some of the worries with the teams who won't think he'll last in the NFL.