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ESPN analyst Merril Hoge isn’t a fan of Johnny Manziel.
In fact, his comments seem quite personal.
During a radio interview with 102.5 WDVE on Wednesday, Hoge ripped into the former Texas A&M Heisman winner’s future at quarterback for the Cleveland Browns and said ‘there’s nothing he does that translates to the National Football League.’
Here are some of Hoge’s most harsh criticisms:
- “This will be the saddest, quickest ending we’ve seen in quite some time. It’ll be like a Tim Tebow. He is exciting. They keep coming back to it, and I go that’s great but it’s not a skill set that transitions in our league.”
- “He has no business being on the field right now. This is the one thing that probably burns me more about the NFL more than anything, is when a player like Johnny Manziel is drafted based on hype and excitement, not a true football skill.”
- “He really had no business being drafted in the first round. When I was doing the draft and I was going through and studying him. I actually got done and it’s the first time, aside from when Tim Tebow came out, there’s nothing, nothing he does that transitions to the National Football League. There’s not one skill set he had where you say ‘Gosh he’s a first-rounder.’ Really nothing.”
- “He’s not helping their chances to win. I have not seen as elementary packages for a guy in preseason in a long time and he can’t execute them.”
