At Halas Hall, as the 2014 NFL draft was about to begin, there was still heavy chatter among the football scribes about where and when Johnny Manziel would go. Whom the Bears would pick had been hashed to death. Opinions didn’t matter. Defense, defense, defense. Bears GM Phil Emery was upstairs in the “war room,’’ surrounded by sergeants, lieutenants, ice-boys, blood-pressure takers. What the Bears would do at No. 14 depended on what the teams above them did. End of story. But Johnny Football, never was a player as divisive. People had the feisty little Texas A&M quarterback going anywhere …
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