Eric Mangini you’re in charge. The Browns hired the right guy for the job. Someone who wants to be in Cleveland. Someone who knows what it’s like to be a Clevelander. Someone who knows what the Browns mean to this area.
Mike Shanahan has better credentials than Mangini. He’s a two time Super Bowl champ. Now let me tell you why Mangini was the better hire.
How many Super Bowl winning head coaches win it all in a different location? No one. Not Vince Lombardi, not Bill Parcells, not Jimmy Johnson, no one. It’s not been done. Winning it all takes too much out of a coach.
11 coaches have won multiple Super Bowls. Lombardi, Tom Landry, Tom Flores, Don Shula, Chuck Noll, Bill Walsh, George Seifert, Joe Gibbs, Johnson, Shanahan, and Bill Belichick. Coaches that win it all more than once build great teams. You can make an argument that a couple of those coaches aren’t even great, merely the beneficiaries of great talent around them. However, none of the coaches from that list were ever able to reach the pinnacle of coaching in a new location. We’ve got 43 years of Super Bowl winning evidence that hiring a former Super Bowl winning coach does not guarantee winning the big game.
Mangini is 37 years old. He will come here hungry wanting to prove that the Jets made a mistake cutting him down before his coaching prime. He evidently knows how to be a successful head coach. Winning 10 games his first year in NY and 9 games his final year in NY. Mangini also wants to prove that he can succeed where Bill Belichick, his former mentor, failed. The rift between the two is well documented. If Mangini can deliver a winner here in a city that’s in desperate need of it’s Brownies to be relevent…..If Mangini can deliver a winner and validate he was the right hire…..It’s all if’s right now, but Mangini’s the Man….Now What?
