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Eric Mangini
It's a snowy, frigid Sunday in wintry Cleveland, Ohio and the Browns' chances of ever becoming a solid playoff team seem frozen in a block of ice as mammoth as Cleveland Browns Stadium. The Browns are in their "next year" mode while the NFL playoffs roll on.
Watching the Arizona Cardinals dominate a powerful Carolina Panthers squad right after the Tennessee Titans, ranked number one in the AFC, gave their game away to the Baltimore Ravens like Santa gives presents away on Christmas Eve, actually gives me hope that the Browns can turn things around very quickly next year.
Think about it!!! The Cardinals are playing in the NFC championship game next Sunday afternoon. Are you kidding?!!!
Arizona was 3-5 on the road this year, with an 0-5 record on the East coast, yet, smashed the Panthers who were 8-0 at home this season. To top everything, the Cardinals' defense, which nobody- let's repeat that, nobody- would mistake for a stalwart powerhouse, forced Jake Delhomme into five interceptions and a fumble to easily put the game out of reach for Carolina. The Cardinals coasted in the second half after heading into half time with a 30-7 lead.
Who saw that coming? Certainly not the Panthers' fans who looked like they were run over by an eighteen-wheeler and then hit by lightning for good measure!
The fact is nothing, and I mean nothing is a lock, such as Carolina staying undefeated at home because they were a 10-point favorite last night. The same goes for the Browns' image as a perpetual loser.
With Mangini now working 24/7 in Berea and George Kokinis interviewing with owner Randy Lerner for the general manager position today- and probably being hired before the end of the day- anything is possible in 2009.
Mangini was here in 1995 and watched Art Modell rip the hearts out of the Browns' fans when he moved the team to Baltimore. While watching and listening to Mangini during his press conference the other day, it dawned on me that we have a head coach who isn't giving us lip service or patronizing us. Mangini knows our pain, felt our pain, and has the determination to heal our pain.
Watching the Browns resurrected as an NFL powerhouse in the coming months will be fun.
Mangini is looking for the key to that lock as we speak.
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