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Mangini’s back, and it’s not bad
The Browns just announced that Eric Mangini will return for a second season as coach.
It’s the right move, and not just because the team reeled off four consecutive wins to close the season.
It’s the right move because what the team needed least was another head coach, which would have made five since the rebirth of the franchise in 1999.
Throw in the fact that the Browns actually did seem to respond better to Mangini’s tactics and methods as the season droned on and perhaps there actually is a foundation here for success even if all-everything Josh Cribbs retires or does whatever he’s threatening to do.
If nothing else, Mangini should be better now that he doesn’t have to be the building’s reigning football authority and can just concentrate on coaching. At least one can hope.
Keeping Mangini comes as a major upset when nearly every national pundit with an opinion insisted he was a goner once new team president Mike Holmgren got around to assessing the situation. Holmgren surely was bound to take over the team himself, they said, or bring in an old pal like Marty Mornhengweg, the guy who once took the wind instead of the ball in overtime while coaching the Detroit Lions.
It’s good that neither happened.
Coaching will remain an option for Holmgren, of course, and don’t be surprised next season if the Browns stumble out of the gate and the Craig Stadler lookalike is back on the sideline. I’m sure it’s still in his blood.
If nothing else, Holmgren’s giant shadow will keep Mangini honest and perhaps guard against repeating some of last year’s troubling stunts such as dragging the rookies on an 11-hour bus trip to work a youth camp in Hartford.
Sorry, Mangini-haters. This was a good day for the Browns.
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By Jim
January 7, 2010 4:48 PM | Link to this
So Holmgren will give Mangini more of a chance to prove his worth than Mangini gave Quinn. Will that knucklehead (Mangini) learn from this? Not likely.
By professor
January 7, 2010 7:52 PM | Link to this
Give me a break. On his toes? It takes a shadow to get him to stop losing? I think you missed the first half of the season. Wins at the end of the season were against easy teams.