'Only up from here': reason for hope amid Johnny Manziel's dire CFL debut

The quarterback threw four interceptions and was benched in his first start since 2015. But there’s reason for optimism

There was Johnny Manziel in Montreal on Friday night, the shadow of a sensation, dashing across a field high above the downtown lights. And you could see glimpses of Johnny Football in the first start of his CFL redemption; the spins, and ducks and dives that once dazzled America. That swaggering, skinny kid from central Texas had not gone away completely.

But there also was too much of the Cleveland Browns’ Johnny Manziel, a quarterback lost, flinging balls carelessly into the arms of his opponents. In the end, his second pro career started much the way his first one ended, with four interceptions against his old team, the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, leaving a whole lot of questions about whether Manziel will ever get what it takes to be a quarterback.

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