Browns Coach Mangini face criticism from music magazine

The Cleveland Browns Coach Eric Mangini has become a target of abuse because of his strict coaching methods. And recently even Rolling Stone, an iconic music magazine, stepped outside its usual arena to slam Mangini.

A harsh critique in the magazine compared Mangini to Augustus Gloop, the fictional overeater in Roald Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and called his short coaching tenure in Cleveland “a sort of Hurricane Andrew of football mismanagement.” Such criticism has been common outside Cleveland since Mangini, who was fired by the New York Jets in December, became Browns head coach. The abuses were mostly resulted from the way he handled the Browns quarterbacks and the fines he levied on players who break his rules. After the Browns had a 1-5 start with their only win a 6-3 decision over the Buffalo Bills on Oct. 11, the coach faces even more bad words.

The coach has fined players for not adhering to his policies— like parking in the wrong spot-and used to fine one unidentified player $1,701 for failing to pay for a $3 bottle of water during a hotel stay. He extended the length of training camp and subjected players to pop quizzes during meetings; forced rookies to take a 10-hour bus trip this summer to his football camp and made his team practice outdoors in the rain. And blames went to him for trading playmaker Braylon Edwards to the Jets after the receiver allegedly punched a friend of NBA superstar LeBron James. All of this have caused complaints from players who wear Browns jerseys, and the Rolling Stone writer Matt Taibbi, who wrote the above mentioned critique, predicted in his article that Mangini will lose his coaching job in the Browns soon.

WR Edwards started his new life with Jets

Wearing a white No. 17 Jets jersey instead of Browns jersey, wide receiver Braylon Edwards was taking part in his first practice with the New York Jets, just over 24 hours after being traded from the Cleveland Browns.

The Jets acquired the wide receiver on Wednesday at the cost of a wide receiver (Chansi Stuckey), a linebacker (Jason Trusnik) and two undisclosed draft choices. The team believes that Edwards will be the big deep threat the Jets had been missing in their receiving corps. While Edwards was catching passes from rookie Mark Sanchez and backups Erik Ainge and Kevin O’Connell during Thursday’s practice, Coach Rex Ryan seemed satisfied with the 6-foot-3 receiver. “He looked tall. He’s big, fast; he’s everything.”

Edwards will start opposite Jerricho Cotchery in Jets’ next game against the Dolphins at Miami on Monday night. Ryan is confident that the new receiver will open things up for the entire for the entire offense. His confidence rooted in the receiver’s familiarity with the Jets’ offensive system, which is similar to what former Browns offensive coordinator Rob Chudzinski ran.