Johnny Manziel’s Benching About a Breach of Trust, Not Partying

November 28, 2015   ·   Andrea Hangst   ·   Jump to comments

When Cleveland Browns head coach Mike Pettine named quarterback Johnny Manziel as the team's starter for the remainder of the season on Nov. 17, he essentially said to Manziel, "We trust you." But it didn't take even a week for Manziel to violate that trust and be demoted—not just to second string but to the No. 3 spot at the position.
The breach of trust in question came the following weekend, during the Browns' bye week. Just days after Manziel promised his coaches and his team he would stay out of the public eye and avoid drawing negative attention to himself—and saying so publicly—a video surfaced, shared by TMZ, of him partying in Austin, Texas.
But it wasn't just or specifically Manziel's partying that saw him benched. Though not a promising development given the time Manziel spent in rehab earlier this year, it was reportedly his denial of the video being current, his instruction to his friends to deny the freshness of the video to the ...

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