Michael Irvin offers to help Manziel, thinks Dallas would be a good fit

With the Cleveland Browns expected to part ways with Johnny Manziel in the coming months, Michael Irvin is hoping his former team will give the troubled quarterback a second chance.

Irvin said he thinks the Dallas Cowboys would be a good fit for Manziel during an appearance on "The Rich Eisen Show," and offered to help turn his career around.

"I love the game of football and the game of football saves lives," Irvin said, according to the Dallas Morning News. "If you can get a young guy, Johnny Manziel won a Heisman Trophy at 18-19 years old. He is still growing up. I don't know why we think if a guy can throw a football it makes him the most mature person in the world. There will come a time when he will cross over that threshold and become a great football player and I am willing to work with him on that and I hope the Cowboys do get him.

"I know this kid has worked hard to get where he is. Let's give the kid another shot, he lands in a better spot and get around the right kind of people. Help him become a better football player and a better man. That's what the game of football does."

Manziel has been involved in a string of off-field incidents since being drafted by the Browns in 2014, the most recent of which was described by police as "a disturbance" between the quarterback and a woman who identified herself as his ex-girlfriend.

The Browns reportedly plan to release Manziel in March, as cutting him before then would result in a cap hit of $4.6 million.