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Warning: article will touch on mature subject matter and violent themes that may be disturbing for some readers.<\/em><\/p>\n

Johnny Manziel’s NFL career is in serious trouble.<\/p>\n

This is not due to his on-field play; rather, it’s due to yet another off-field incident, one much more serious than all the others he’s amassed in his short college and NFL career.<\/p>\n

News of this most recent incident was reported on by Dallas television station WFAA 8’s Rebecca Lopez. \u00a0These are the harrowing details<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The ex-girlfriend of NFL quarterback Johnny Manziel told police that the Heisman Trophy winner told her “shut up or I’ll kill us both” after forcing her into a car, hitting her, and dragging her by the hair.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, News 8 learned harrowing details of last week’s alleged assault of Colleen Crowley by Manziel, who is currently on the Cleveland Browns roster, but is not expected to return next season.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is easily the worst in the long line of Manziel incidents, ranging from\u00a0fake ID<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0middle fingers<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0rehab<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0the first domestic dispute with his girlfriend<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0much<\/a>,\u00a0much<\/a>\u00a0more<\/a>. \u00a0It’s obvious he has a lot of talent; he showed this throughout his college career and even in brief periods during the last two seasons in Cleveland. \u00a0However, his off-the-field exploits have always been his undoing, and anyone who knew about his problems in college could have foreseen a self-implosion at the professional level.<\/p>\n

And the problem is, the people closest to him did. \u00a0This is what Johnny’s father, Paul, said in August 2013 in an\u00a0ESPN article<\/a>\u00a0about how his son’s life could fall apart:<\/p>\n

“Yeah,” Paul says one evening, driving in his car, “it could come unraveled. And when it does, it’s gonna be bad. Real bad.”<\/p>\n

He imagines a late-night call, and the cable news ticker, and the next morning’s headlines.<\/p>\n

“It’s one night away from the phone ringing,” he says, “and he’s in jail. And you know what he’s gonna say? ‘It’s better than all the pressure I’ve been under. This is better than that.'”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

While one would hope that his statement would be proven untrue, Johnny came very close to fulfilling it last weekend. \u00a0And he’s not out of the woods yet: his ex-girlfriend, Colleen Crowley, was granted a restraining order<\/a> against him today. \u00a0Additionally, the Dallas Police Department announced Friday that it was opening a criminal investigation<\/a>\u00a0into the domestic violence and assault allegations.<\/p>\n

So why have things gone so far off the rails for Manziel recently?<\/p>\n

Well, the short answer to that question is that they always have been. Going back to his college days, there was a little bit of a wild side to him; this manifested itself in the way he played on Saturdays. \u00a0After missing the first half of Texas A&M’s 2013 home opener against Rice, he returned in the second half and did this:<\/p>\n