That Super Bowl ready team Ryan is playing with in New York was built by Mangini. Over-conservative? Yeah, bombs away to covered leadfoot wideouts, with a backup quarterback whose downfield accuracy is atrocious.He got fired because St. Brett didn't bother to tell him his shoulder was so messed up it needed off season surgery. I guess the consecutive games played in streak was more important. I've said it before, if you want to fault Mangini for anything, it's he tends to keep guys in too long that aren't playing well. If you want to bring up Wright, got any better suggestions- Mike Adams? Brandon McDonald? Whoops, not here anymore. Hayden is being brought along slowly- he should be starting by the end of the year.
And will you give the guy a break already? Talent cures a lot of ills, and the Browns are still woefully deficient in that department. Most of our wrs wouldn't be starting on playoff caliber teams- you really think MoMass or Robo would be doing anything but riding pine on the Bengals, Ravens, or Steelers rosters? From my POV, we have one great player on D- that would be Ward, who should get serious consideration for defensive ROY. Fujita's so great the Saints considered him expendable, ditto Gocong with the Eagles.
Sorry but this is way inaccurate. I mean not even close. There are a few holdovers from Mangini days, but the roster has been turned over quite a bit. Our starting QB was a rookie last year, we have 2 RB's that were not with Mangini, a rookie FB, 3 WR's that were not on the roster with Mangini. The offensive line is pretty much the same, save Slauson. On D we have a brand new secondary with the exception of Revis and a couple of backups (Coleman and Lowery). The LB corp is pretty much the same, but we added Bart Scott and Jason Taylor. D-line is pretty much the same too, but Shaun Ellis was here way before Mangini and Pouha was as well. Gholston was Mangini's bust pick and apparently the only pick that he influenced Tannenbaum into making in the 3 years here. I'm sorry but the only way Mangini made this team SB ready was by getting fleeced in 2 trades.