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‘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.”
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By L.C.T.T.
October 21, 2009 8:53 AM | Link to this
If it’s brown, flush it down.
By Lee from Orlando
October 21, 2009 10:10 AM | Link to this
I’ve lived to see the present Browns Apocaplypse since that thug Thom Darden cheap-shotted Pat McInnally. They lost their franchise, they are perpetually inept; nonetheless, I want them to suffer more.
By db
October 21, 2009 11:56 AM | Link to this
here is how to put a stop to all those over paid players pay for performace void all contacts
By oldtimer
October 21, 2009 4:22 PM | Link to this
Think Mangini is too tough? When Paul Brown coached the Browns he once fired one of his top players after finding out the player had been arrested for DUI. With Paul it was my way or the highway!
By Dr. Zap
October 21, 2009 4:38 PM | Link to this
Sean…way to produce an article from someone else’s piece. Very creative. You are as smart as a Bengals fan - which is generally a low IQ individual - like LCTT up there.
By Jack
October 27, 2009 1:56 PM | Link to this
So Sean, do you pull the plug after one year? Could Lerner admit that he was wrong? Normally I would say that you have to give a head coach a few seasons, but he has just made too many mistakes to justify another year. 1. Qb’s. BOTH should have been traded before the draft. BOTH stink. If Mangini was cleaning house, clean the whole house, not just the upstairs. 2. Draft. Why is a team lacking talent, drafting guys to develop? Actually did not mind trading down for Mack (although I would have drafted Sanchez, and traded Quinn to the team offering the first…and then got Mack), but we drafted 3 guys in 2nd round who “may” be good someday. Could have grabbed at least two impact guys there. 3. Was St. Clair/Porkchop better then what Tucker could have given you this year?
By professor
October 31, 2009 11:53 AM | Link to this
I agree with Sean but once again it is the Browns fans who are treated poorly.