Brian Hoyer spoke back on Tuesday to an allegation made via Johnny Manziel against him.
Manziel made lots of headlines last week over what he stated in the course of an look on Shannon Sharpe’s “Club Shay Shay” show. One element Manziel had said that drew interest used to be that Hoyer used to be unhelpful toward him whilst the two had been quarterbacks in Cleveland.
Hoyer, Manziel and Connor Shaw were the three quarterbacks who played for the Browns in 2014, which used to be Manziel’s rookie season. Hoyer made thirteen starts, Manziel two, and Shaw one.
Manziel said on Sharpe’s show that Hoyer didn’t assist him due to the fact the journeyman quarterback noticed it as an opportunity to in the end be a starter.
“My quarterback room used to be now not a domestic for me because of Brian Hoyer,” Manziel told Sharpe. “Brian Hoyer had been ready on an opportunity to go truly supply for his family, get an opportunity and he saw how a great deal of an upper hand he had on me, and he didn’t maintain lower back when it got here to that.
“There had been instances in the quarterback room early on where I would ask the identical question a couple of instances and he’d be at the head of the table and go, ‘Pfft, again? We’re doing this again? Keep him out of it. Cut that off.’ And I don’t have a horrific phrase to say about Brian Hoyer. That is just truth of what came about in that room.”
Manziel said that you may want to ask Shaw or the Browns’ quarterbacks instruct at the time, Dowell Loggains, to corroborate the claims
Hoyer joined NFL Network’s “Good Morning Football” exhibit on Tuesday and responded. The 38-year-old veteran described himself as “apathetic” toward Manziel and stated he was making an attempt to win the job.
“Look, I’ll be honest, Johnny’s right, that was once an possibility for me to go out and be the starter for my fatherland team, but I used to be sort of apathetic towards him I would say. I didn’t go out of my way to be a jerk to him, but in the same sense, I used to be making an attempt to win this job and go out and operate the great I could. I sense sorry that he feels that way about it,” Hoyer stated on “Good Morning Football.”
Hoyer stated he was once greater upset with the Browns for drafting Manziel.
“I continually regarded at it like, I by no means had any animosity toward Johnny. If anything, it was once towards the owner and the GM who have been usually making an attempt to push him in advance of me when sincerely he wasn’t equipped and I was once gonna be the starter. It’s unlucky that that left a awful taste in his mouth, but like I said, never had any animosity toward Johnny. I experience terrible that he feels that way, but I don’t virtually recall it being that way, either.”
Hoyer didn’t entirely deny Manziel’s claims. And it’s tough to blame him for behaving the way he did.
Manziel did now not study, did now not watch film, and akin to a category clown, avoided all the youngsters in class from studying because he wasn’t doing his homework. Had Manziel taken greater of a professional method to the situation, things probable would have been much, an awful lot different.
