Though no specific information has been released regarding the pointless injury to Browns receiver Josh Cribbs during an irrelevant Stanford-band effort in a sport that does not feature a 16-point play, indications via the post-game sound bites seem to be that Cribbs will be fine.
“He has feeling in all parts of his body,” Browns coach Eric Mangini said after the game in comments distributed by the team. “Really the reason we took him off on the board was more of a precautionary measure than anything else, from what I understand. He’ll get some tests now, but that’s the information that I just got.”
Despite the fact that Cribbs was being evaluated for a concussion, one teammate said Cribbs was alert after the game-ending play.
“He was cracking jokes down there, so that was a good sign,” tight end Robert Royal said. “He was waving his limbs. We don’t know the extent of the injury, but at the same time we think he will be all right.”
As we pointed out last night, the Browns were able to get the ball back because they took — and were awarded — a fourth time out in the second half.
Stupid Coach Mangina. He was going for that 16-point play and the boys didn’t execute Coach’s “vision” of how to save his own job.
Wait, you mean the Browns were down by 16 when they pulled this ‘sandlot’ play with 20 secs left on the clock? That means that the Browns Coach is a fully qualified idiot. What reasonable person would think that, even if the play resulted in a touchdown, that the Browns would be able to get an onside kick, score a TD, get another onside kick and get into FG range in 15 or less seconds? Since no reasonable person could have that expectation I can only assume that the intent was to score to avoid a shutout. Sure, nobody likes to be shutout, but seriously, why risk your players with 20 seconds left in a vain effort at what comes down to pride? Stupidity abounds.
Sources report Mangina is not upset by the hit. In fact, he is currently looking into ways to fine Cribbs for being injured on what he believes would otherwise have been the NFL’s first 16 point play.
How much more does Randy Lerner need to see to convince himself that Eric Mangini has no f-ing clue what he’s doing out there and should be fired?
Bad enough that Mangini is inept, stupid, decietful, and delusional; bad as that is (like not realizing himself that he’s already called three timeouts before calling a fourth) now he’s making stupid decisions that could risk the health and careers of his players by having them attempt “heroic” measures on a meaningless play.
This guy has to go, not because he’s inept and a POS, but before he gets somebody killed. Seriously.
And what does that fourth timeout say about the officiating?????? Just how bad do they have to get before the NFL realizes something has to be done? This truly does seen to be the worst season in memory for incompetence in officiating.
Lastly, how stupid does the NFL think the public and the press are????? (Yes, I am including PFT and Florio here). Do they honestly think they can simply edit out that fourth “stealth” timeout from the game log and no one would notice?
Seriously????
Goodell needs to account for that and someone needs to be singled out for that ridiculous decision. “Timeout? What timeout? There was no timeout, you’re imagining things” …… what, they didn’t think there was going to be a video record of the game anywhere in the country????
I don’t know who is more incompetent here, the refs for having their heads up their collective a$$es and missing that three TOs were already called, or the moron who decided to remove the “proof” of that TO from the game account.
And of all the coaches in the league to have been involved in this, you knew it would be Mangini, right?
More good officiating from the NFL’s part timers.
Do Ref’s get fined for tarnishing the image of the game for blown calls?
The Browns are what they are. More surprising is how completely awful the Ravens have become.
Yeah, instead of calling a fourth time out the Browns should have had the timekeeper try to do what the Eagles home timekeeper did in the Dallas game. That is put up a 25 second clock when the play ends instead of a 40 sec one, thus trying to ensure that Dallas could not run out the clock with under two minutes to go. It didn’t work, but they should get points for trying.