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Browns coach Eric Mangini is ruffling feathers in his first year on the job in Cleveland. And it\u2019s prompting some league observers to revisit the question of why owner Randy Lerner rushed to hire Mangini at a time when he had been fired by the Jets \u2014 and when no on else wanted him.<\/p>\n
The latest development is that Browns rookies and their agents are upset that Mangini took them via ten-hour bus trip to work a football camp in Hartford, Connecticut, according to Mary Kay Cabot of the Cleveland Plain Dealer.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a sophisticated form of hazing,\u201d one league source told Cabot. \u201cI\u2019ve never heard of anything like it.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s voluntary, [but] it\u2019s B.S. voluntary,\u201d another source told Cabot. \u201cThese players are fighting for starting jobs and playing time. What are they supposed to do, say \u2018no, I\u2019m not going?\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n
A league source responded to the report of the bus trip to Hartford more succinctly.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s f\u2013ked up,\u201d the source told us.<\/p>\n
We\u2019ve separately heard that Mangini has imposed a curfew on the first-year players who are participating in voluntary workouts, which obviously makes no sense since the workouts are voluntary.<\/p>\n
The problem, as we see it, is that Mangini has learned nothing from his termination by the Jets. And that\u2019s likely because the Browns clamored to hire him the moment that Lerner realized Mangini was available.<\/p>\n
Still, if Mangini doesn\u2019t change, he\u2019ll eventually be out of a job again. Next time around, there probably won\u2019t be another owner who\u2019s ready to welcome him to town with open arms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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