Fortunately the first move of that unnamed team was to fire their idiot coach. OK, going to Vegas incognito after being excused from showing up at the game doesn't fit your idea of what a NFL quarterback should do. Well now, let's list the QBs in the NFL that do fit your moral ideal. I count zero.
I think by now we all get that you, Church Lady, disapprove of Manziel in general. It must be nice to be so morally superior.
Oh yes, and he missed a Sunday concussion protocol session. That that is a sin worthy of your disapprobation says more about your judgment than about his.
Get over it. Manziel may very well be traded by the new Cleveland regime (hopefully to a team with an offensive line that can protect the QB a bit better than the Brown's did), there are a lot of sportswriters who think he will be, but he still has the talent to be an outstanding NFL QB. I think they would do well to retain him as a backup for McCown who performed really well until he was injured (reference aforementioned Cleveland offensive line). At 36 he can't have much time left though.
Manziel could use another season or two of being #2, but there are teams that could use a first string QB that had his record this year primarily earned as a backup.
Regular season stats: 57.8 % completions, 7 touchdowns, 5 interceptions, and a QB rating of 79.4%.
Plenty of room for improvement, but not the worst stats either, especially considering they were earned as a backup and had spent precious little time practicing with the starters. And he had pretty good games against the Seahawks(!) and the 49ers.
As for being benched for 2 games by Pettine? What sane NFL coach benches his starting QB for two games for lying about where he was while on his own time? I'm sure he (Pettine) felt offended, or maybe he was just worried about Johnny's well being, but to make a move that cost his team any chance of winning those two games was foolish to the nth degree. That might make a bit of sense in college, but the NFL is a business, and that move was just plain stupid.
I think Haslam must have made his decision to get rid of Pettine then.