Cleveland Browns coach Eric Mangini says that if he had the last play of Monday night’s 16-0 loss to the Ravens to do all over again, he wouldn’t call the play that led to receiver Josh Cribbs suffering an injury.
Mangini said that on reflection, he wishes he hadn’t called the desperation Stanford Band-style play that ended with Cribbs getting hit so hard he had to be taken off the field on a stretcher.
“In retrospect I’d probably do it differently if I had to do it again,” Mangini said, per Mary Kay Cabot of the Cleveland Plain Dealer. “You don’t want anybody to get hurt on any play.”
Cribbs’ agent, J.R. Rickert, said today that he’s furious with the team for putting Cribbs at risk of an injury on a play that had no chance of altering the result of the game. Now Mangini says he agrees with Rickert that it wasn’t the right call: Mangini said he wishes he had just called a simple handoff.
Not as much as Cleveland regrets hiring Mangini.
Mangina probably regrets a lot of things… like taking the Browns head coaching job. And the Winslow trade… and the Edwards deal, oh and that Davis injury, and hiring his buddy Kokinis.
It would take less time to list things Mangina currently doesn’t regret.
Mangina is sure to be fired at the end of the season. Do you think he was trying to score that TD simply because he didn’t want to listen to another week of people talking about how his offense can’t put up more than 6 points. Ever!
“In retrospect I’d probably do it differently if I had to do it again,”
REALLY? REALLY? You Big Ton’s of Fun!!!!!!
Ugh now he’s going to try to show the fans that he listens and cares? Too little too late, and enough with the Belichick comparisons, Eric Mangini will NEVER achieve anything close to what Belichick has, no matter how long he keeps trying to ride those coattails.
Could the idiot mangini even handle coaching high school fottball? He sure as hell sucks at the pro level.
For the record, it wasn’t a Stanford band play… it was a play by CAL which resulted in a TD to win the game over Stanford…. with the celebration being to knock out a Stanford trombone player. God I loved that play.
He should regret it. There was no sense in it. It was stupid.
I’m sure he does. Because having had time to think about it, he has realized that you can’t score 16 points on a hook and lateral. A fact he was not aware of because the same coaching responsibilities that kept him in the dark about Brady Quinn’s escalators, have also kept him from reading the rule book. Great hire Randy. This is who you chose to be the face of your franchise.
They should hire Jauron. Hell of a better coach than this dope!
If Cribbs had looked where he was going, he wouldn’t have run right into the Raven’s player. It wasn’t a cheap shot by any means. Cribbs just needs to pay attention.
Ahhh…the old “hindsight is 20/20″ phenomenon. Randy Lerner is probably experiencing that same thing with regard to his most recent coach hiring.
He regrets the decision to go for the “old” 16 point hook -n-ladder play. What a jerk he is, get rid of this coach he had 2 weeks to prepare for this game and the closest the offense got was the Ravens 45 yard line.
We regret you coming to Cleveland.
So you guys hear about the child abuse case that broke over the weekend in Cleveland? Well today the kids and parents were in the courtroom and the boy (8) was asked by the judge who he wanted to live with since his parents were no longer an option. The kid says Eric Mangini. The judge asked him why this was and the kid says “cuz that guy can’t beat anyone”!
Damn browns always diluting the power of the AFC North.
I think Mangini cares and wants to win.
So now agents are dictating how a coach should manage a game?
While it may have been a piss poor play to call, Rickerts needs to shut his hole.
Mangini should just step down and admit he can’t coach very well at the pro level.
Gee an Agent furious……….that should change a coaches play calling in the future!
Clevelander is 100% correct. Cribbs should have been looking where he was going. Tragedy that he got hurt like that, but is the coach expected to sit his best players because they mathematically can’t win? If that is what everyone is contending, then there are a bunch of sucky coaches in the leauge every week. Not that Mangini doesn’t suck…I just don’t think that play shows that he does.
it is a shame that after saturday the buckeyes will be finished until the rose bowl in january an that the only football i have left is the mingina monologues.
How is it that this asshole makes millions a year (and still will even if he gets canned)?
-”Cribbs’ agent, J.R. Rickert, said today that he’s furious with the team for putting Cribbs at risk of an injury on a play that had no chance of altering the result of the game.-”
Haha, What ever happened to just being a Football player knowing that you’re gonna get hit really hard sometimes.
Sheesh, some of these players lately.
Let’s face the facts in Cleveland: Mangini doesn’t care about anyone or anything except ol’ #1. He doesn’t mind (allegedly) practicing helmetless guys against those in full gear; he doesn’t mind throwing his “Best Buddy” under the bus; he doesn’t mind driving that same bus on a 16 hour trip with Indentured Free Agents too afraid to say “No”; he doesn’t mind risking his best player (and Cribbs is his best player) simply for an unlikely chance to avoid a shutout.
The best thing Randy Lerner can do is to man up on this mistake and clear the slate one more time. These are some costly mistakes that are being made by the Browns coaches and front office. Their fans collectively need to be nominated for sainthood.
Mangini should run the ball a few times without a helmet during the next practice. He could demonstrate how to score 16+ points on one play. Let’s run it out of the the mangenious formation.
Ralph Wilson ought to call Randy Lerner and let him know that you can fire a Head Coach in the middle of the season.
What’s next, a lawsuit for bad play calling and putting a client in unnecessary danger?
The play was a farce, but shut up agentman.
I need a helmet just to watch the Clowns. After watching just 1 posession, my head hurts.
The defense has shown moments of improvement but, that offense is simply awful!
Just what the Hell do these prima donnas do during practice??? They sure don’t practice. Otherwise, how would they make so many of the same silly mistakes over, and over, and over again? Maybe they’re all practicing without helmets.