After Johnny Manziel bought lower by the Cleveland Browns in March 2016, it shortly turned clear that he had no plans on making an attempt to make a return to the NFL with one other group. As an alternative of on the lookout for a brand new NFL job, Manziel went into celebration mode after he was launched. 

Throughout a current interview on Shannon Sharpe’s “Membership Shay Shay” podcast, Manziel revealed that he primarily went on a bender that lasted for a number of months. After being launched, the previous first-round decide spent loads time in Las Vegas and through that point, he was principally partying and doing medicine. 

“I used to be 210 kilos once I left Cleveland,” Manziel instructed Sharpe. “I used to be 170 kilos sitting in Vegas that August, that September, that October, no matter it was later in that 12 months.”

Sharpe was shocked by the truth that Manziel was capable of lose 40 kilos in simply months, so he requested how him how he was capable of pull it off. 

“How do you lose 40 kilos? You are on a strict weight loss plan of blow,” Manziel stated. 

At first, Manziel did not understand he was dropping any weight, however that modified when he was capable of weigh himself at a Vegas lodge. 

“At that time limit, I might look in a mirror and I did not see myself any completely different than once I was in Cleveland,” Manziel stated. “Till I stepped on a scale on the Cosmopolitan Resort in Las Vegas, I did not understand I had misplaced 40 kilos.”

Regardless of the dramatic weight reduction, Manziel did not decelerate: He continued to go to Vegas and he continued to celebration. 

“I bear in mind these footage got here out,” Manziel stated. “And I used to be like, ‘Rattling. What am I doing? No matter, we’ll determine that out later. Let’s go once more.'”

Manziel’s actions off the sphere turned a headache for the Browns, which is an enormous motive why he bought launched simply two years into his contract. The primary controversy got here in 2014 when he bought photographed in a toilet earlier than the beginning of his first coaching camp with the group. 

After a rookie season the place he began simply two video games, issues did not get any higher in 2015. Throughout the group’s regular-season finale, Manziel did not present up for the sport; as an alternative, he took a visit to Vegas. Though he wasn’t going to play — he had been dominated out with a concussion — the journey to Vegas was positively a foul look. Additionally, he missed a compulsory therapy session that he was imagined to attend on Sunday after the sport.

That journey to Vegas ended up being Manziel’s closing one as a member of an NFL group. Simply two months after the journey, the Browns determined to chop Manziel, and after that, he determined to take his partying methods again to Vegas the place he would spend a superb chunk of the following few months. 

Throughout his interview with Sharpe, the 31-year-old stated he is now blissful and he made it sound like his partying days at the moment are behind him.