Browns Coach wished he would have handled final play differently

After Monday night’s 16-0 loss to the Baltimore Ravens, Cleveland Browns Coach Eric Mangini said he wished he would have handled the game’s final play differently so that the team would not have its best player injured.


The best player referred to wide receiver Josh Cribbs, who was flattened by Ravens defensive end Dwan Edwards on the last play. In the team whose offense just scoring nine points in the past three games and 78 all season, Cribbs at least poses the threat of going the distance when he has the ball, and that is why the Browns cannot afford to be without him.

After Cribbs spent several hours at the Cleveland Clinic undergoing tests, Mangini worried less as he knew the receiver did not sustain a concussion. The coach was even optimistic that Cribbs would wear back his Browns jersey to play on Sunday against the Detroit Lions. But who care? The Browns anyway have no chance to the playoff.

Browns coach Mangini waived another player picked by his predecessor

On Tuesday, the Cleveland Browns waived tight end Martin Rucker, marking the second straight time Coach Eric Mangini has waived a high draft pick of Cleveland’s previous regime. Along with Rucker, defensive back Marquis Floyd was also waived by the Browns on the same day.


Rucker was a fourth-round selection in 2008, when the Browns coach was Romeo Crennel. Another player released by Mangini last week was linebacker Leon Williams, who was picked by Crennel in 2006.

The Browns found replacement for the released players very soon. Tight end Greg Estandia and defensive back Anthony Madison has been added to their roster to put on the browns jersey already. The 6-foot-8, 266-pound Estandia spent two seasons with the Jacksonville Jaguars and started two to the 26 games he took part in, having totally 19 catches for 249 yards. Madison was signed as a free agent. He was playing for the Pittsburgh Steelers from 2006 to 2008.

The Browns new coach brings more disciplines to the team

The Browns are trying to reinvent themselves by hiring a new coach, Eric Mangini, after they went 4-12 and fired coach Romeo Crennel and general manager Phil Savage.

Mangini brought a lot of changes to the team's culture by setting more disciplines than his predecessor. They are looking for a starting quarterback, who will run a new offense that players are still trying to learn.


"It's a lot of discipline," running back Jamal Lewis said. "It's just finding out who the players are and who's going to come out here and give hard work and effort because neither one knows the other. The coaching staff doesn't know a lot of the players, the players don't know a lot of the coaching staff.

Hope the new coach will go well with the players soon and bring consederable improvement to the team.