Jones seems to slam the door on picking Manziel

With the draft two days away and the Cowboys holding the 16th overall pick, speculation remains that owner/G.M. Jerry Jones will try to make a play for quarterback Johnny Manziel.
Not so, says Jones.
“I”m not that gunned up over what a rookie quarterback could do for us this year,” Jones said Tuesday, via Clarence Hill of the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram. “That takes time. This is not rebuilding time.”
So does that mean the Cowboys can rule out using a first-round pick on a quarterback?
“It does not qualify for the biggest need,” Jones said. “I will go as far as to say it is not our primary goal in the first round to be looking at a quarterback. We’ve got a good one.”
It’s hardly a categorical denial. While drafting a quarterback may not be the “primary goal,” it technically could still be the secondary goal.
At this point in the process, it’s impossible to believe what anyone says so close to the draft. If Jones doesn’t want a quarterback, he has no reason to say so. In fact,it would make more sense to suggest he wants one, in the hopes a team drafting lower than No. 16 jumps the Cowboys to take a player the Cowboys wouldn’t taken.
Actually, the biggest reason for saying Jones doesn’t want a quarterback in the first round could be to conceal the fact that, in reality, he does.

Source: PFT.com
Author: Mike Florio
Photo by Joe Robbins, Getty Images

Jaworski: Manziel won’t last three games playing like he did at A&M

Former NFL quarterback Ron Jaworski is doubling down on his claims that Johnny Manziel is not a good NFL prospect.
After previously saying that he doesn’t think Manziel should be taken in the first three rounds of the NFL draft, Jaworski said today on SiriusXM NFL Radio that Manziel simply doesn’t have the right style to last in the NFL.
“He’s a random quarterback that likes to get out of the pocket and make plays with his legs,” Jaworski said. “In the NFL, he won’t last three games playing that style. He’ll get hurt. He took a lot of vicious hits at A&M in two years, and those hits that have that cumulative effect will knock him out of games in the NFL.”
Jaworski said Manziel has developed such a habit of escaping the pocket that an NFL team might not be able to coach it out of him. And Jaworski added that Manziel doesn’t read through his progressions, is careless with the ball and is inconsistent in his mechanics.
Although there have been some questions about whether Manziel has off-field issues that will keep him from succeeding in the NFL, Jaworski said he doesn’t base his judgment on that. Jaworski just thinks that on the field, Manziel does not play the game the way a successful NFL quarterback needs to play it.

Source: PFT.com
Author: Michael David Smith
Photo by Joe Robbins, Getty Images