"Champion of what?" Smart joked of Manziel in a since-deleted tweet. "Champion of Fireball?" The comment appeared to be a nod to Manziel's history as a notorious partier during his time at Texas A&M.

"Champions? He ain’t no champion. Champion of what? Champion of Fireball," Smart said of Manziel. "Alright, alright, alright, alright, I’m gonna go here for you. There’s Heisman. Right?

The center, with Macca and Wataru, really good; Dom, like a fireball, jumping out there and creating the chaos. I liked that a lot." With Curtis Jones still to come back into the Liverpool team ...