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Tuesday, October 20, 2009
‘Hurricane Andrew of … mismanagement’
Poor Eric Mangini. You fine a guy $1,700 for taking a $3 bottle of water from a hotel without paying for it. You force rookies to take a bus to Connecticut and work your camp.
Your team is 1-5, sporting one of the NFL’s worst records. You just lost your leading tackler, linebacker D’Quell Jackson, for the season with a shoulder injury.
And now you’ve got a writer in Rolling Stone making fun of you.
Doesn’t seem like it could get any worse, but it probably can.
As the Associated Press reported today:
In its latest issue, the iconic music magazine stepped outside its usual arena with a harsh critique of Mangini, comparing him to Augustus Gloop, the fictional overeater in Roald Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and calling his short coaching tenure in Cleveland “a sort of Hurricane Andrew of football mismanagement.”
Mangini, fired by the New York Jets in December, has become a target of abuse — much of it from outside Cleveland — for some of his decisions this season, most notably his handling of the Browns quarterbacks and excessive fines levied on players who break his rules.
The Browns are 1-5 with their only win a 6-3 decision over the Buffalo Bills on Oct. 11. Long before Rolling Stone piled on, Mangini was being slammed for some of his coaching methods. He has fined players for not adhering to his policies — like parking in the wrong spot — and he slapped one unidentified player a $1,701 fine for failing to pay for a $3 bottle of water during a hotel stay. …
Taibbi went as far as saying the Browns have quit on Mangini in lopsided defeats, a charge many of Cleveland’s players dismissed after road losses to Denver and Baltimore.
Taibbi wrote: “In the NFL, if you don’t show your players that you have a plan that works, the T-minus to an on-field player revolt is usually about a month. In Cleveland, we’re there.”
