Eric Mangini – Mangenius just doesn’t get it
Eric Mangini is one of Bill Belichick’s coaching cronies who had some early success here with the NY Jets and was fired last year and astoundingly immediately got another job with the Cleveland Browns The Browns are a mess, this was as bad of a hire as Herman Edwards was in Kansas City for the Chiefs, when they actually traded the Jets for him. The Chiefs have since replaced Herm with another Belichick disciple but that’s not my topic; Mangini is… here’s his latest stroke of Genius…
Michael Silver of Yahoo! Sports reports that the Browns have fined a player for not paying for a bottle of water that he drank in his hotel room during a preseason road trip.
The bottle of water cost $3.
With the fine, the player could have purchased 567 more of them.
Yes, Browns coach Eric Mangini fined the player $1,701 for not paying for the $3 bottle of water.
The black Browns garb gives you an idea of his mentality. I mean black Browns stuff?
And remember during training camp this doozy:
One league source told ProFootballTalk.com Friday that both the league and the NFLPA are looking into whether Mangini’s actions violate the CBA and/or other potentially applicable rules.
As to those who think that the exercise represents an effect Remember The Titans-style “it’s good for you even if you don’t like it” bonding exercise, think again. Per the source, the players are angry that they’ve been subjected to 20 hours of bus travel at a time when they otherwise should be having a couple days off from “voluntary” workouts that they dare not miss.
And before the opening game the “genius” was not telling anyone who his starting QB was going to be for the “competitive advantage” the Browns summarily went out and lost that game and lost last week too, leaving them at 0-2 and the Genius, I would imagine very unpopular in the locker room, following 2 losses and that insane fine. Here’s the thing; sometimes the best job, is the one you don’t take, the problem is he’s not Bill Belichick sure, but moreover the problem is ALL he knows is Belichick. He was BB’s ballboy, then assistant, then assistant coach, then Def coordinator, and eventually enemy. Why enemy? Because Belichick hates the Jets and asked the genius to take any job but that one and the Genius snubbed him and took it, then acted like wanna be Bill at every turn.
The original and the wanna be
The Browns are bad, and have been since they re-entered the NFL, and that’s a shame. It’s an historic franchise, with great fans, the whole thing is a good element for the league when they are good. But this was a terrible hire for them & for the Genius himself, had the Genius NOT gotten this job he most likely would have had to take a coordinators job somewhere. This may have been more beneficial to him, than scrambling to taker another head coach job that he’s simply no equipped for. He has only seen the Belichick way of doing things if he coordinated for a different coach he may have seen a different way to relate to players and carry yourself and run your team, thus LEARNING from the experience and growing so when he gets another shot he’ll be ready for it. I also hear Mangini has someone listen and tape all the Browns games on TV and document any time an announcer bashes him, and he wants it reported to him.
WTF is wrong with this guy? He just refuses to be anything but a humorless, robotic VERSION of Bill Belichick and it just is not serving him well. Had he not taken the Cleveland job and coordinated somewhere and rounded his style down the road he’d have been older, more experienced and more ready for a head coaching gig, and may have even done well. But this Cleveland thing will end badly I HOPE for the sake of the league it’s sooner rather than later. So far the best thing Mangini has done was for the Jets when he traded them the pick that netted Mark Sanchez unfortunately he was the Browns coach at that point. D’oh!
Ironically, Belichick LEARNED from his Cleveland failures coordinated and got better, Mangini’s head coaching days most likely will end for all time with what i see as an inevitable Cleveland disaster.
The master also struggled in Cleveland but took some time & learned!
Besides Belichick isn’t as emotionless as you think:
Yeah that's Bill and his lady friend, nice winning 3 Super Bowls
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