http://espn.go.com/blog/dallas-cowb...l-off-field-before-signs-him-on?ex_cid=espnfbJerry Jones wants to help Johnny Manziel before signing him
"The overwhelming response and the overwhelming mentality is for him, if we're involved in any way, to help and encourage him to get it together," Jerry Jone said of Johnny Manziel. EPA, USA TODAY Sports
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Todd ArcherESPN Staff Writer
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BOCA RATON, Fla. -- Before Jerry Jones considers signing Johnny Manzielto play quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys, he wants the former Heisman Trophy winning quarterback to get his life turned around.
"The overwhelming response and the overwhelming mentality is for him, if we're involved in any way, to help and encourage him to get it together, to get his issue improved because those issues, in my mind, not talent, are why he is free today," Jones said Tuesday from the owners meetings. "It's those issues, and those issues are the overriding consideration here and how and what basis that those can be dealt with and addressed."
After a troubling rookie season, Manziel spent 10 weeks in rehab. In 2015, he spent the final week of the season in Vegas, missing a medical test for a concussion. A Dallas grand jury now is deciding whether Manziel should be charged for allegedly abusing his ex-girlfriend.
Jones said he has not spoken to Manziel since the Cleveland Brownsreleased him. He also has not spoken to Manziel's new agent, Drew Rosenhaus. According to sources, at a personnel meeting at the end of the 2015 season Manziel's name was mentioned as a possible quarterback candidate and the thought was rejected.
Jones looked to draft Manziel in the first round in 2014 but he stuck with his scouting department and the Cowboys took Zack Martin. Jones, however, has lamented missing out on Manziel on numerous occasions even as the quarterback struggled in Cleveland.
Jones spoke deliberately when addressing Manziel. In the past, Jones has helped players that have had off-field troubles before. Josh Brent worked in a warehouse during his suspension from the NFL and last year worked in the team's scouting department after he retired from football.
"I would in any way offer to help him work to be where we all are rooting for him to be, which is having a successful life and football career," Jones said. "I would do that. You say, 'Well, is that because of football?' Well, I might not have been aware of this had it not been for football. I'm aware of it. With that, with me, comes a motivation if it's appropriate within the rules or within the guidelines of the NFL if we can be of help in the promise of being a part of the NFL through the Cowboys, I certainly look to that. But …I don't even dare, right now, go into picturing him in a training camp or an OTA or him in a ballgame. You don't go there."
Nothing wrong with wanting to get the young man help but I don't see Manziel as worth it. I do not see franchise QB from him.
But as a Giants fan I say do it Jerry
