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“I feel like it has been a smooth transition with everybody here in the organization, with my teammates, with the offence,” Manziel said. “I don’t feel overwhelmed, I don’t feel pressure, I don’t feel like I’m being treated any differently than anybody else on the team.

“We’re having fun being in camp. That’s what I can say. I’m having a lot of fun building relationships with guys.”

The true test of Manziel’s development will come when he steps on to the field against the Argos. What’s known is Manziel will enter the game at some point in relief of No. 1 quarterback Jeremiah Masoli, but to what length Manziel plays is to be determined.

“We will probably script a lot of the stuff and there will be a number of plays,” Ticats head coach June Jones said. “I’ll know by Friday. I haven’t done the script yet, but he will know going into the game how many he is going to play.”

Manziel acknowledged that his patience has been tested, but only during the initial days of camp. He has come to learn what many U.S.-born players have refused to believe over the years — and as such never made it in the CFL: That a mastery of the game can’t be had at the snap of the fingers.

Studying the playbook, taking advice, asking questions. All of it has to be done constantly before success can be had on the field.

“Trying to cram all of it in, in one day, and get out there the next day and feel like you know everything … it’s just not realistic,” Manziel said.

“I am completing passes, I know where I am supposed to go with the ball, I’m good on the run game.