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Browns QB concerns shared by owner

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After new Cleveland Browns offensive coordinator John DeFilippo expressed some skepticism about the team’s current quarterbacks, owner Jimmy Haslam was non-committal about 2014 first-round draft pick Johnny Manziel.

“We’ve got to get a quarterback and got to get it fixed,” Haslam during the Greater Cleveland Sports Awards on Thursday night. “What I would say to our fans is, we’re going to continue to work really hard to find that quarterback who can make us a championship team.

“We are going to work until we find the right person. I am not slighting Connor (Shaw) or Johnny or Brian (Hoyer) if he were to come back. We are going to work until we get a quarterback that is going to help us win consistently and that has been our goal since Day 1.

“Every option is open as far as who is going to play next year. That will be up (general manager) Ray (Farmer) and Pett (head coach Mike Pettine) what direction we go.”

DeFilippo, who replaced Kyle Shanahan after spending the past three seasons as the quarterbacks coach for the Oakland Raiders, said earlier Thurday that Manziel doesn’t have the inside track to the starting job next season.

“We’re not sure if our starting quarterback’s in the building right now or not,” DeFilippo said during an introductory news conference. “If he is, that’s great. If he’s not, that’s great, too. Whoever’s in that room is going to be coached hard, be held accountable and be expected to do the things that we expect out of Cleveland Browns quarterbacks.”

Haslam said he isn’t ruling out Manziel as the 2015 starter, but emphasized that “every option is on the table.”

“Johnny has to show on and off the field he can be a professional,” Haslam said. “He knows that. Everybody in the organization has told him that. … He knows what we expect of him on and off the field, and it’s up to him to prove he can do that.”

The low point of the 7-9 season for the Browns was a 30-0 loss to the Cincinnati Bengals on Dec. 14. It was the first start for Manzie and he completed 10 of 18 passes for 80 yards and threw two interceptions.

Manziel sustained a season-ending hamstring injury a week later against the Carolina Panthers.

Hoyer will be a free agent and Manziel attempted only 35 passes, completing 18, before being injured. Shaw, who had never played in an NFL game, started the last game because Hoyer had shoulder and biceps injuries, and Manziel was on injured reserve.

Pettine said after the season that he isn’t ready to say Manziel, who was the No. 22 overall pick, is the starter for the future.

Haslam talked about the ups and downs of the team’s 2014 season.

“Considering at the first of the year if we were going to finish 7-9 what would have everyone said? They would have said we had a pretty good year,” Haslam said. “The reality is we were 7-4 at one time and now it really looks bad. We have things we have to work on as a team. We don’t have enough depth, injuries hit us hard which is why we faltered down the stretch.”

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