In January 2014, Johnny Manziel was on top of the football world. The 2012 Hiesman winner had just capped off a legendary collegiate career with a comeback win over Duke in the Chick-fil-a Bowl and was looking to shirk his party-boy image in an effort to improve his draft stock. Selecting a quarterback early in the draft is always a risky investment for an NFL franchise, and Manziel needed to convince scouts that the high maintenance, wild-man reputation he had earned in college was something of the past. Part of the pre-draft process for Manziel was a 3 month stint training with private quarterback coach George Whitfield and his staff, which included former NFL quarterback Kevin O’Connell. O’Connell’s role was to improve Manziel’s football IQ by teaching him certain aspects of the game that he didn’t have to worry about in college-things like identifying the mike, calling protections, etc. Essentially, O’Connell’s job was to enhance the cerebral aspect of Manziel’s game so that when coaches and GMs began drilling him with Xs and Os questions at the combine, he could ace the interview.