Browns' Manziel not bothered by lack of playing time: 'I don't feel frustrated'

Cleveland Browns rookie quarterback Johnny Manziel said Friday that he doesn't agree with head coach Mike Pettine's assessment that he is frustrated in a backup role.

“I don’t necessarily think that’s the right word,” Manziel said, as reported by Mary Kay Cabot of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. “Obviously coming from the situation I’ve been in the past couple years of every rep, every snap, every down of every game, coming into the situation that I’m in now is going to be a lot different for me. So I’m sure there are signs of this being a different situation for me, but I don’t feel frustrated. Obviously, being a competitor I want to play, but there is a difference.”

Manziel believes he's where he needs to be at the moment - backing up starter Brian Hoyer.

“I’m still extremely hungry,” he said. “I still feel that obviously coming out training camp, I was disappointed. I wanted to play better and at the same time I am a rookie and I can’t be too hard on myself. I remember thinking back to the days when I was learning the offense at (Texas) A&M. It was frustrating. And it’s like that for everybody coming into a new system and a new place a long way away from home. So there’s a lot of things that were going on in my life at the time. Now I’m a lot more settled in, a lot more comfortable with everything that’s going on in the day-to-day operations.”

Manziel also acknowledged that he had a poor camp, where he had been given every opportunity to take hold of the starting job.