During the 2014 season, the Cleveland Browns jumped out to a 7-4 record and sat atop the AFC North.

As history would have it, all good things must come to an end for the modern-Browns. There was some internal pressure to make a change from quarterback Brian Hoyer to Johnny Manziel. During the ThomaHawk Show with former Browns wide receiver Andrew Hawkins and offensive tackle Joe Thomas, Hawkins recalled a story where fellow wide receiver Josh Gordon and Hoyer had a disagreement at practice.

"We were sitting in the lobby. Gordon was playing Madden. Hoyer comes in and sits down in between meetings. They must have been still going at it. JG looks over at Hoyer, pauses the game, takes Hoyer out and puts Johnny in. That's how I knew stuff was getting real," Hawkins said.

Thomas joked about that being the end of Hoyer.

"Was that the beginning of the end? That's when he got benched. Do you think Hoyer went to [Mike] Pettine and had like the Bill Belichick-[Tom] Brady confrontation? 'It's either me or him. He traded me on Madden. He benched me on Madden!," he exclaimed.

Former offensive coordinator Kyle Shanahan and Hoyer have both spoke to the internal pressure that was being leveraged in the franchise at that time. It is believed to have come down from ownership.

The Browns ended the season on a five game losing streak and short of the playoffs. After the season, Hoyer signed with the Houston Texans. Manziel was gone a year later and Cleveland has not sniffed the playoffs since.