Should the Ravens Hire Eric Mangini for Defensive Coordinator?

By , on January 5th, 2011

With all the flack that Greg Mattison gets on this site, I thought it would be fun to ask the question, “What if the Ravens hired Eric Mangini as their Defensive Coordinator?” I mean, he was a Raven’s coach back in the day. He also showed some promise while on staff with the Pats. So I posed the question to Brian Bassett of The Jets Blog and here was his response.

It doesn’t take a lobotomized moron to tell you that Eric Mangini would be a bad fit for Baltimore. Apparently Matt couldn’t find a lobotomized moron, so he asked me instead.

Reason #1: Eric Will Try to Cut Ray Lewis (Before Ray **AHEM** Cuts Him) — Eric Mangini likes two things in his players: guys who don’t speak their minds to the press, and guys who don’t (allegedly) stab people. Eric Mangini has swallowed his ego once for the sake of a iconic star player and it didn’t go so well. I don’t think he’d do it again, even if it means taking a job at his football powerhouse Alma Mater, Wesleyan. Adding just one drop of Eric Mangini antimatter to the Ray Lewis Universe would cause utter chaos and ruination. I don’t it happening for that reason alone. READ MORE >>>

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The Big Picture: Mangini’s Job

By , on November 4th, 2009

Once again sitting in the cellar of the AFC North, the Cleveland Browns are slumping at the time in the season when they should be peaking.

This past week the organization should how unstable they are when they fired general manager George Kokinis who had only held the position since this past offseason. With his departure comes the arrival of former Browns quarterback Bernie Kosar as the team’s new “consultant.” This new hire has started speculations that first year head coach Eric Mangini will be fired, possibly during this week’s bye.

Such a move would send this organization downward, even more so than they already are with Mangini calling the shots. When the Browns hired him this past offseason, they gave him his choice of who the team’s new general manager would be. By giving a head coach such responsibilities, the entire organization is at the mercy of this decision. It would be the easy solution to simply fire Mangini and start completely from scratch starting in week ten, but what will Cleveland be able to accomplish with a new coach for the next seven weeks?

With it being so far into the season, they would need to promote one of their assistants to coach the team on an interim bases until the season is over and they find head into their third coaching search in the past five years. Even though this team has begun the season so poorly, hiring a new coach during the season will only send this team back to ground zero.

I would agree that this team is in need of a new look, but such moves need to be made after the season. All moves should start from the top of the organization with the hiring of a new general manager with experience, with the choice being made by someone other than Mangini, or whoever the head coach is. This will ensure that all the right moves are made with their sights set on making a playoff run in 2010.

Thus far this season, we have seen similar circumstances with the Washington Redskins whose head coach Jim Zorn was on the hot seat until he was given a vote of confidence from the organization. Such “confidence” should be ensured to Mangini for the sake of this entire team that is currently sitting at 1-7, in hopes of keeping the team together and earning some victories starting with the rival Baltimore Ravens in week ten.

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1/8 NFL Notes

By , on January 8th, 2009
  • Pacman Jones is released by Dallas Cowboys – Have we seen the end of Pacman? We all hope so, I’m so tired of hearing about it, he had NO positive impact with the Cowboys so please, please, let this be the end.
  • Brett Favre will wait on ’09 Decision – WOW! There’s a shock. You mean to tell me that Brett Favre is going to wait to make his retiring decision more dramatic? Hmmm…Weird. I would venture to say that even if he says he’s retiring he MIGHT still come back. Just throwing it out there.
  • Mangini introduced by Browns – In the first round of the coach shuffle, the GENIUS lands in Cleveland. Look out Ravens, we’ve got to face the spygate snitch twice a year.

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