Long Time Jets Fan

I think that Mangini will learn from this and ultimately be a very good NFL coach.

jefmblrd

I don't doubt that Mangini can be a good head coach sometime, but like others have said, I don't see why the Browns feel they have to rush into things. Maybe they are doing their due diligence and spreading their net wide, but I would think that they'd focus on GM first.

Mangold74

He would still be coaching the Jets if Favre didn't ruin the season. You could do much worse then having Mangini as your head coach. He needed better coordinators and I'm sure in his second job he will do much better.

Tunescribe

Why do you care? If I were you, I'd be mighty p!ssed at him.

Disco Volante

I don't.

He still needs to pay Belichick $500,000 and then perform Seppuku.

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BelichickFan

He owes us a #1 pick also.

Disco Volante

He can just give us Ghol-

This years pick.

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patsacolachick

I could actually see them using this logic: Well BB failed with us and then was terrific, let's get a coach who failed somewhere else and have him be terrific for us! Losers, I feel so bad for their fans.

And I do not get the Mangina love here. He took what he was able to learn from BB and parlayed that into a few wins. Once he was done with what he learned from BB he was sunk. He cannot adjust his gameplan mid-game to save his life, and he did nothing to improve that defense, nothing. Not to mention that he cannot find his own personality, his little choir boy voice at his press conferences screamed "phoney!" Say what you want about BB, he has never tried to be anything he is not. Eric TRIED to be mini-BB and FAILED, he will never ever have success as a head coach, just because someone was stupid enough to hire him once does not mean it is inevitible that he will ever be any good.

MassPats38

A few of my favorite things, and an excellent beginning.

Add in a job in which he gets to wear a Chuck E. Cheese costume for two or three years, followed by a one or two year stint with the NFL equipment manager cleaning jocks . . . and I still would not allow him back as a coach.

He had exactly 1 year as a coordinator and made the bad decision to jump to head coach when a hated rival offered him the job (in part I suspect to screw Belichick, not because Mangini was that good). He lacked the experience of running a team and it showed this year when his veterans quit on him at the end of the season. Belichick offered him a chance to learn the trade and he played the prodigal son. A team that hires him hires a sub-.500 coach who has not demonstrated the ability to succeed without Belichick. Good teams don't do that.

vyrago

And this speculation is coming from whom?

linky, link, link please.