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Posted Friday November 20, 2009, About: Mayo rebukes Bruschi's Belichick knock
You obviously have one thing and one thing only going on in your brain.
Posted Friday November 20, 2009, About: Mayo rebukes Bruschi's Belichick knock
The guy was Defensive Rookie of the Year in 2008, ding-dong.
Posted Friday November 20, 2009, About: Shanahan on Bills list
I honestly don't see Shanahan, Cowher, Holmgren or any other former Super Bowl coach heading to Buffalo. It just doesn't wash.

More likely, you'll see some up-and-coming coordinator like a Mike Zimmer come along and sign up for the rebuilding project there. Unless of course, the current staff sticks around after the season.

They need a GM first, don't they?
Posted Thursday November 12, 2009, About: Source: Mangini talked Jets into draft bust
Let's see now: Mangini arrives in New york - after one year as a coordinator and following behind Herman Edwards, he coaches the Jerks to a 10-6 record. The pundits declared him 'Mangenious'. Wow. Exciting.

Falling back to earth in year #2, he guides those same Jerks to a 4-12. Huh? What happened? The same pundits went quiet and it was an apparent aberration.

The toast of the town in '08, they were flying high until Mr. Favre had his arm injury and that was that. They were on fumes and Mangini had no answer so they finished 9-7.

Moral is: Mangini took a decent team to where it should have gone and then coaching 'his' team, they hit bottom. A free agent spending spree got them in better shape, but it wasn't quite good enough.

On to Cleveland. This team, in all honesty, was in bad shape when Eric Mangini arrived. So not only do you see the roster in yet further turmoil, the front office is now as well. If Mr. Lerner was looking for change, well, he sure got it.

Did Mangini create the bad situation in Cleveland? No, he did not. Did he take a bad situation and make it completely horrible? It appears that he did. This is likely his last head coaching job in the NFL.
Posted Monday November 09, 2009, About: Patriots show up Porter
Let's get this straight: Joey Porter embarrassed Joey Porter and not someone running the video board at Gillette.

Ask any Patriot player and just about any NFL player and they will tell you that you do your talking on the field and say what needs to be said by your performance. Did jason Taylor say anything? No, he never would because he has class and he respects his opponent. I respect Jason Taylor and have absolutely zero respect for Porter.
Posted Wednesday November 04, 2009, About: Browns may make another run at Accorsi
In Cleveland there was no system, no plan.

Mr. Lerner is probably a great guy and fan of his team, but doesn't understand professional football. Hiring the coach, then a GM and also had a third cap guy really set them up for problems. No one was in control and certainly no one is now.

I don't know jack about running a professional sports franchise, but really, all you have to do is look around the league and you can see which teams are contenders each and every season and then study them, understand them and finally emulate them. Find the right people and put them in a position to succeed. Maybe they will and maybe they won't, but if your foundation is sound, then you know exactly where you have a problem. In Cleveland, there is no foundation.

Now, you can blame Mangini, ok, but the reality is, he is a border-line coordinator, acceptable position coach and an incompetent head coach. He doesn't have the skills, whether it's planning, managing his staff, managing the players, whatever. He fined a player earlier this season $1,700 for taking a bottle of water from a hotel room - and that my friends is not positive reinforcement.

If Mr. Lerner brings in Ernie Accorsi to oversee the hiring of a legitimate staff - GM, Head Coach, et al, maybe they can start to put the pieces together for a successful franchise.

While we're at it, once Eric Mangini is relieved of his duties, the next move should be to put Derek Anderson on waivers. Neither of them is doing anything to help that football team and never will.
Posted Tuesday November 03, 2009, About: Fired Browns GM at odds with Mangini
Gosh. Everyone and their brother knows the problem wasn't Kokinis, it's Manweenie. He's the problem.

They fired the wrong guy.
Posted Monday November 02, 2009, About: Jamal Lewis: I'll retire after season
It's a shame if that happens - the guy is a load. And the fans love a load, I can tell ya that.
Posted Monday November 02, 2009, About: Report: Viking FB hurt in locker-room horseplay
It's a flat-out case of locker room grab-ass if I ever heard it and it's just wrong is what it is.
Posted Monday November 02, 2009, About: Browns owner: Mangini's job safe for now
What 'KC Guy' mentioned pretty much sums it up: You don't hire a coach and then hire the general manager. Simple Business 101 tells you that typically won't work unless an extraordinary amount of luck is involved.

Eric Mangini, much like Romeo Crennel before him are coordinators at best and that's really an unknown because they were coordinators in a good system with one of the all-time best defensive minds in the game. They were products of their system. The only difference was Romeo was a good guy and Mangini had only one year of experience before getting the Jets job, which by the way, was a fiasco unto itself. Mangini is not only bad at what he does, he's also a jerk.

Mr. Lerner wasn't paying attention and of course, now he's well, just paying.

It's a shame for the Brown's fans because that town has a good history of football and the team that is being fielded today is one that any opponent can count on for a much-needed 'W'.
Posted Monday November 02, 2009, About: Browns owner: Mangini's job safe for now
It's probably safe to say that the rest of the teams in the AFC North just love Kokinis and Mangini about now. It's pretty nice to be able to count on a 'W' at home or at their place.

It's really a shame because Cleveland is a great and storied football town and deserves better than this. It really starts with the owner, like what 'KC Guy' mentioned when Mr. Lerner hired the coach before hiring the general manager. I've never heard of that before.

Getting down to basics, Eric Mangini, much like Romeo Crennel before him were never more than coordinators and Mangini only had experience at that position for one season in N. E. anyway. Romeo was a good guy, but not a head coach, while Mangini can't even be called that (good guy). Belichick is really the de facto defensive coordinator in any case as it is. This mess really falls on Mr. Lerner, he caused it and only he can fix it, but it won't be quick and it won't be easy. It also won't be cheap.
Posted Thursday October 29, 2009, About: Why Raiders benched Russell
Even my mother knows that JaMarcus Russell is not the minimum caliber of a starting NFL quarterback. She mentioned it just yesterday.

Something about 'shades of Ryan Leaf...' or something to that effect.
Posted Thursday October 29, 2009, About: Ex-GM rips new Browns regime
You have to wonder just how long Eric Mangini will actually last in this current quagmire, er, coaching position?

What was it about Mangini that attracted the good Mr. Lerner? Great interview? Come on, was he not paying attention in New York? He had the one 10-6 year and the other two were not noteworthy by any stretch, so did he really think that Mr. Mangini would fare better in a situation that required much more work? That's wishful thinking at it's best, but a luxury that even multi-millionaires can't afford.

With the situation as it is, it won't get any better. This year, next year, it doesn't matter. It's best for Josh Cribbs that they don't give him an extension so he can go play somewhere else.
Posted Friday October 23, 2009, About: Ex-GM's wife rips Titans, Fisher
That organization has never been run right and that goes back to Houston. Fisher has been a good head coach, but I think the loss of Jim Schwartz as defensive coordinator was never really given it's due diligence.

The real issues at quarterback (they don't actually have one) and now the defensive situation, which coincides with their decimated secondary are now taking it's toll. Expect more stories to come from all kinds of odd angles as the vultures start circling around the potential carcass.
Posted Wednesday October 14, 2009, About: Fisher: Titans might make QB switch
One of the biggest problems is Jim Schwartz is in Detroit now and not in Nashville.
Posted Thursday October 08, 2009, About: Marshall's attitude improving
Next Sunday will go far to separate the men from the boys.
Posted Thursday October 08, 2009, About: Brady won't apologize for roughing calls
While everyone was concerned about the flag being thrown, It was obviously a successful ploy designed to divert any possible attention away from the video recording of defensive signals.

By the way, when I come back it'll be no more 'Mr. Nice Guy'.
Posted Friday September 18, 2009, About: Patriots haven't called Seau - yet
All the way to #27 until some numbnuts came along with a video tape/cheating comment. Not bad.

Let's face it, his hoodiness must have done the math and if it came up to bringing someone else on, they would do it. I mean, it's not like he give's a rats' ass what us earthlings think. Bet he's not reading these columns for ideas, either.

Besides, if someone comes in, then someone goes out and who would that be? Mayo still counts and he should if he's out 6-8 weeks.
Posted Wednesday September 16, 2009, About: Questions of T.O.'s leadership in Buffalo
T.O. was disappointed because he figured they stole the definsive signals again.
Posted Saturday September 12, 2009, About: Report: Seymour to report to Raiders
I'm impressed, we got all the way to post #71 before any 'Spygate' crap came up. The buffoons are slacking off, I tell ya.
Posted Friday August 21, 2009, About: Cable to Hanson: 'I am going to kill you'
If there is a police investigation - and that appears to be a lock, then Roger Goodell will likely have to set an example of Coach Cable, does he not?

Broken jaw, strangulation, damaged office furniture. Wonder what kind of punishment that will bring?

I'm thinking that the strangulation thing is not good. It just sounds kinda bad.
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