The Cleveland Browns Coach Eric Mangini was asked on Monday if he planned to bench Derek Anderson, the NFL’s lowest-rated quarterback, the Coach’s answer was a definite “no”. The answer just seemed incomprehensible after another humiliating home loss.
The Browns lost 31-3 to the Green Bay Packers and Anderson went 12 of 29 for 99 yards against the Packers, completing just 23 of 70 passes in the past three games and now having an overall 40.6 rating. However, Mangini just has the feeling that Anderson can give his team the better chance to win than Brady Quinn or anyone else wearing Browns jersey.
Anderson is grateful for Mangini’s support, but knows he must improve or he will lose his job. With so many fans being frustrated by consecutive losses, whoever to be the starter just has to do something to improve the team.
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
Browns Coach Mangini face criticism from music magazine
The Cleveland Browns Coach Eric Mangini has become a target of abuse because of his strict coaching methods. And recently even Rolling Stone, an iconic music magazine, stepped outside its usual arena to slam Mangini.
A harsh critique in the magazine compared Mangini to Augustus Gloop, the fictional overeater in Roald Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and called his short coaching tenure in Cleveland “a sort of Hurricane Andrew of football mismanagement.” Such criticism has been common outside Cleveland since Mangini, who was fired by the New York Jets in December, became Browns head coach. The abuses were mostly resulted from the way he handled the Browns quarterbacks and the fines he levied on players who break his rules. After the Browns had a 1-5 start with their only win a 6-3 decision over the Buffalo Bills on Oct. 11, the coach faces even more bad words.
The coach has fined players for not adhering to his policies— like parking in the wrong spot-and used to fine one unidentified player $1,701 for failing to pay for a $3 bottle of water during a hotel stay. He extended the length of training camp and subjected players to pop quizzes during meetings; forced rookies to take a 10-hour bus trip this summer to his football camp and made his team practice outdoors in the rain. And blames went to him for trading playmaker Braylon Edwards to the Jets after the receiver allegedly punched a friend of NBA superstar LeBron James. All of this have caused complaints from players who wear Browns jerseys, and the Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi, who wrote the above mentioned critique, predicted in his article that Mangini will lose his coaching job in the Browns soon.
A harsh critique in the magazine compared Mangini to Augustus Gloop, the fictional overeater in Roald Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and called his short coaching tenure in Cleveland “a sort of Hurricane Andrew of football mismanagement.” Such criticism has been common outside Cleveland since Mangini, who was fired by the New York Jets in December, became Browns head coach. The abuses were mostly resulted from the way he handled the Browns quarterbacks and the fines he levied on players who break his rules. After the Browns had a 1-5 start with their only win a 6-3 decision over the Buffalo Bills on Oct. 11, the coach faces even more bad words.
The coach has fined players for not adhering to his policies— like parking in the wrong spot-and used to fine one unidentified player $1,701 for failing to pay for a $3 bottle of water during a hotel stay. He extended the length of training camp and subjected players to pop quizzes during meetings; forced rookies to take a 10-hour bus trip this summer to his football camp and made his team practice outdoors in the rain. And blames went to him for trading playmaker Braylon Edwards to the Jets after the receiver allegedly punched a friend of NBA superstar LeBron James. All of this have caused complaints from players who wear Browns jerseys, and the Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi, who wrote the above mentioned critique, predicted in his article that Mangini will lose his coaching job in the Browns soon.
Thursday, August 20, 2009
Browns starting QB not decided yet
Browns coach Eric Mangini probably would like to see Derek Anderson and Brady Quinn continue competing for the starting job till the last minute. By so far, he has not announced who would be the starting quarterback for Saturday’s home exhibition opener.
It has been guessed that Anderson would likely be the starter in the game against the Detroit Lions, because Quinn started last week’s game at Green Bay. However, Mangini said he wanted to see more of their performance and would not announce the starter until the end of the practice week.
It seemed that Mangini was very careful in making the right decision on the starting quarterback. He has balanced the reps between Anderson and Quinn during training camp, but has not been ready to name the starter for the regular season opener against Minnesota on Sept. 13.
It has been guessed that Anderson would likely be the starter in the game against the Detroit Lions, because Quinn started last week’s game at Green Bay. However, Mangini said he wanted to see more of their performance and would not announce the starter until the end of the practice week.
It seemed that Mangini was very careful in making the right decision on the starting quarterback. He has balanced the reps between Anderson and Quinn during training camp, but has not been ready to name the starter for the regular season opener against Minnesota on Sept. 13.
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