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January 9, 2015Someone tell me why Washington would interview a tight ends coach for their vacant defensive coordinator job? Well, when Eric Mangini is that tight ends coach it makes some sense. The former Mangenius from the New York Jets and one of the worst drafters in Cleveland Browns history will be headed to interview in Washington.
Former Browns/Jets HC and current 49ers assistant Eric Mangini will interview for the Redskins DC job per sources.
— Dianna (@diannaESPN) January 9, 2015
I joke about Mangini because he was over-matched as a personnel man, but he’s a very competent football coach from what I can tell. I mean we also heard there were issues of the way he ran the team and related to some players, but if I had to choose one coach from the Browns’ repertoire of coaches since 1999 to come in and put a plan together to win just one game for me, I’d have to pick Mangini for sure.
Just keep him out of the draft room. I was listening recently to the A to Z podcast with Zac Jackson and Andre Knott and they told a Mangini draft room tidbit. It wasn’t a major story and I can’t remember which episode of the show it was in, but they said something about how Mangini looked around the room to all of his scouts and heard them all basically give David Veikune a seventh-round grade and then went on his own to draft him anyway. In the second round.
With stories like that, you always worry that maybe it’s been exaggerated a bit, but even if that story is only 60 to 70-percent true, it’s rage-inducing.
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FWIW, If anyone has read the book “Slow Getting Up” by Nate Jackson, he shares some tidbits about trying out for the Mangini-era Browns. The picture he paints is not pretty. Mangini comes across as embarrassingly obsessive, controlling, aggravating, lacking in any kind of people skills.
What would make you so mad about him drafting that person in the second round. Not like LeSean McCoy ever did anything. And we have Paul Kruger. Maybe we should be thanking him.
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Control freak Mangini trying to run the defense of a team owned by Dan Snyder is just way too good to actually happen. If they hire him, then I will very much want the DC team to be on Hard Knocks this year.
Where is Frowns!?!??!?
Saving the world from the evils of the opportunity corridor.
So, in other words, Belichickian?
I would say he was more like a deranged teenager who went to management seminar, drank 50 espressos, and woke from his walking fugue one random afternoon in Berea.