Everyone watched in anticipation on day one of the NFL draft as Johnny Manziel continued to fall. In fact he was falling in perfect position for the Dallas Cowboys to draft him, it seemed like fate. Then it was the Cowboys turn and they passed on Johnny Football, shocking and upsetting many even Lebron James. So why did Cowboys owner Jerry Jones go in a different direction? He explains.
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Johnny Manziel was the highest-rated player on the team’s draft board when the Dallas Cowboys went on the clock with the 16th overall pick, team owner/general manager Jerry Jones said Friday. But there’s only room at Valley Ranch for one celebrity quarterback. Tony Romo is entrenched as the Cowboys’ starting quarterback for the foreseeable future, as long as his body cooperates.
“It was too significant for him to be an insurance policy,” Jones said Friday night, a day after the Cleveland Brownsselected Manziel with the 22nd pick after the Cowboys passed on him. “There’s just too much dynamic here for him, for the franchise, for everybody. That’s just too much for insurance, and it’s not the usual development guy behind an accomplished quarterback. He’s a celebrity. He’s Elvis Presley.”
Though we’d all love the excitement and intrigue that would come along with Manziel on the Cowboys, Jones actually made a wise decision. The Cowboys already put $108 million behind Romo, to bring in another quarterback that people would want to see on the field would be practically throwing that money away and adding drama to a team that’s already chock full of it. Even Manziel noted the media explosion that would occur. “I don’t know if the world could have handled that, honestly,” he said.
