Even Bengal beat writers are laughing at you guys.
http://www.daytondailynews.com/blogs/con...?cxtype=feedbotEric Mangini: My knucklehead of the year
By Chick Ludwig | Tuesday, September 29, 2009, 09:52 AM
In my humble opinion, the Cleveland Browns’ Eric Mangini is a knucklehead who borders on being a phony and fraud as a head coach.
I’ve heard he was a pretty good ball boy at one time for the Browns.
And he did an outstanding job getting coffee for everybody as a Browns’ public relations intern.
But a head coach? The dude’s lacking in so many areas — from the treatment of his staff (when he came on board, he fired a lot of friends of mine), to the treatment of his players (like dawgs) to his PR savvy (zip-zilch-none) to his interaction with the media (zero personality).
He puts you to sleep in his news conferences, and makes Packers GM Ted Thompson — the most boring cat I’ve ever met — seem like Ronald Reagan.
Rule No. 1 for a head coach …
… Never, ever, ever, ever, ever let a quarterback controversy exist on your club.
Mangini not only let it exist, he massaged it, let it linger, and fester, and now it’s too late.
He didn’t make up his mind on Brady Quinn-Derek Anderson until opening day, choosing Quinn.
He yanked Quinn at halftime against Baltimore, and won’t reveal his starter against Cincinnati until Wednesday.
If Quinn doesn’t start, his confidence will be destroyed. If Anderson starts, the Browns have a better chance to win because he’s had success against Cincinnati in the past.
The only reason Anderson is still drawing a paycheck from Cleveland is because of the Bengals, who keep resurrecting the guy’s career.
I couldn’t care less about which QB starts for Cleveland. It’s Mangini’s indecisiveness that’s killing the Browns, who resemble an expansion team. It’s almost like 1999 all over again.
Mangini should have traded Quinn or Anderson in the off-season. After all, in the NFL, when you have two quarterbacks, you really have none.
That said, the Bengals better be careful. If they play up to their potential, they’ll win in a blowout. If they take Cleveland for granted, the Browns could pull off the upset and ruin the momentum Cincinnati achieved in its stunning victory over the Steelers.
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you will be if you lose sunday 
) isn't even from Cincinnati. He writes, and I use the term loosely, for the Dayton Daily Rag.
