Stumbling To The Finish Line
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September 21, 2009With the world loving approval ratings, ESPN has taken the liberty to provide a set of their own regarding head coaches within the NFL. While using SportsNation is never an exact science, it is the voice of the fan; the zealots and constituents that fill the stadiums every week.
They’re also the same people that have promptly put Browns head coach Eric Mangini in the 32nd slot following the week 2 debacle in Denver.
As of right now, a mere 10 percent of the Nationapproves of Mangini’s brief tenure with the Orange and Brown. This is down substantially from last week’s rating of 33 percent.
With only a garbage time touchdown to show thus far, things do not appear to be getting much easier for Mangini and company as they head in to Baltimore to face the 2-0 Ravens. Sure, the personnel is among the worst in the league. And sure, we haven’t exactly faced two pushovers during the rist two weeks of the season. However, like most other approval ratings, Mangini is being judged by the results of the team which he coaches.
The only question will be, can a coach have a negative approval rating?
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Instead of panning this, you all need to ask WHY was this man ever hired? You also need to ask yourself why this franchise has neither an Executive VP or a GM. Then you need to determine just how you feel about what Randy Lerner has done to put this together for you.
Through 2 games it’s impossible to tell this shlock apart from the garbage that Crennel/Savage put on the field…I’m suprised the approval rating is even @ 10%.
Maybe only 20 people voted, and Lerner & Mangini approved?
On a positive note, the Redskins store here in DC mistakenly got a shipment of Browns’ under-armout type material winter jackets that they promptly put on the Clearance Rack for 75% off. I wore it out of the store. That’s positive, right?
The 10% are probably Steelers fans who are happy with Mangini.
This is down substantially from last week’s rating of 33 percent.
Can I have “Signs that something is wrong with your team” for $400
The more telling number would be Lerner’s approval rating. I am not currently holding Mangini responsible for this mess.
mangini was a mistake from the beginning. he’s a manchild who needs to go back to being an assistant.
is randy lerner ultimately responsible? yes he is. but until the powers that be strike him down we’re stuck with soccer boy.
FIRE MANGINI YESTERDAY!
I’m pretty sure if Romeo didn’t pull a negative rating at the end of last year’s debacle of a season, than no one can.
I didn’t think Mangini was immediately a terrible mistake. Not the best hire for sure, but I was willing to give him a chance. Unfortunately, he’s done nothing but blow that chance at every opportunity. I was excited to see this team play the Broncos, I thought they would have a chance, but now I’m not excited for anything. Living in Chicago, I almost became a Bears fan this weekend, after seeing them beat the squealers while also trying to watch that travesty of a game in Denver.
I’m starting to think Isis is really Romeo.
2 games into the season people want to disassemble the front office and coaching staff and start all over. Amazing. Alot of people call Belichick (arguably) the greatest coach in football. In his first year as head coach (here in Cleveland) he went 6-10. In his first year with a new team, New England, he went 5-11. The following year they won the Super Bowl. I’m not calling Mangini the second coming here, or even saying the Browns will win the Super Bowl next year, but let’s give the guy, the team, a chance before we blow them up and start new.
@ terje – Good point. Belichick had to lick his wounds as an assistant coach for 5 years before he got another head coaching gig. Mangini had to wait about 5 minutes before Randy “The Boy Wonder” Lerner was on the phone begging him to be coach of the Browns.
i guess i would think that Daboll would be more at fault than mangini here……the play calling is certainly a top 3 problem area on this team.
@9: I agree completely. We have to let things play out. Same with Quinn. While I’m not encouraged by either of their starts to this season, there needs to be some patience.
@Isis: We get it. You don’t like Lehner or this year’s draft picks. kthnxbai.
@ # 12 — You left out that he predicted this. And continues to issue accurate predictions for the rest of this year. And god help us if he’s right again.
@13: I don’t care. Prediction is cool, but I don’t need to see him c/p it on every single Browns thread.
*Discuss
#13 = Isis
@ #16 – nah, just long time lurker but recently started posting once I saw how durn accurate his predictions have been. Not quite a fanboy, because don’t we Cleveland fans have enough reasons to be downtrodden?
Thing is, for guys like Isis, they can give extensive, sweeping criticisms. But what do they offer, in terms of solutions? Chris Wells?
He has to do better than that.
@#17 – My issue with Isis is not that I disagree with him. I just get tired of the Randy-Quaid-from-Major-League-2 mindset of ALWAYS predicting doom and gloom and then being the first to say: “See? I told you!” Like predicting struggles for the Browns and Tribe has been a tough prediction in recent times.
This is where he’ll ignore the fact that I have always kind of agreed with him about Mangini (went on record disagreeing with the hiring process but willing to give Mangini a year or two to develop things) and call me a “kool aid drinker”.
How much longer until Robiskie is officially a bust? I realize we have only played two games, but the entire reason he was drafted (reached for) high in the second round is because he was “the most NFL ready reciever in the draft”. If you are going to draft a low ceiling player that high, he had better be ready to contribute from day one, especially considering the alternatives still on the board.
I also wonder why a rebuilding ream is drafting a possession reciever so high. It might make sense if the possession reciever is the one piece missing on a championship caliber team, but shouldnt a rebuilding squad have higher aspirations for an early second rounder?
Agree with DP. It ain’t exactly like I needed to call Miss Cleo to find out if the Browns were going to stink this year.
@ # 18/DP Diesel — This is, if you’re an avid reader of this site, either you’re a (1) Cleveland fan or (2) jerk who likes to see how upset we Cleveland fans are about [insert one of our teams].
As such, I think we have every right, from the years of mis-management, RedRight88s, et al, to be critical and doom and gloom-y.
Sure, we get tired of seeing/reading it, but that doesn’t change its accuracy. Just the facts, man; and while they might be abysmal, it’s better to deal with those than promises for an 8-8 season.
In other words, if you’ve confined yourself to a life of always seeing the negative and being miserable, why not urinate on everyone else while you’re at it?
I don’t understand why the conversation topic switched to R. Kelly’s career decisions.
Exclusive Eric Mangini post-game transcript:
http://kardiackid.blogspot.com/2009/09/int-coach-manginis-office-night.html
Give it time.
What is wrong with this team already, its been a shame to see players changed over and over because a couch wants to bring in his own players and just writes off the guys already here without even knowing if they are any good.
Mangina is just more of the same from the group of Beliupchuck loser assistant couches. Name one that has been a success yet?
This team is old and slow, you cant teach speed and old guys break.
Im sick of it all already and think im going to find something better to do with my Sundays.
Time for the people who own FIRE MANGINI to update it to the BROWNS.
To think of the couches NeverLERNER passed on to hire this BUM makes me sick.
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