For Mangini’s Browns Its a Deja Vu Debut

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Published: August 16, 2009

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... Inopportune penalties.  Bad tackling.  Failure to capitalize on opportunities.  All were consistent traits of the Romeo Crennel led Cleveland Browns for the past four seasons.  Unfortunately for Eric Mangini, they were all traits of his Cleveland Browns in his head coaching debut, a 17-0 whitewash at the hands of the Green Bay Packers.

Mangini was brought into Cleveland to instill hard work, discipline, and work ethic to a floundering franchise.  An actual touchdown would be nice for starters as the Browns failed to find the end zone on offense again after six straight games with the same problem in 2008.

The only difference was that in this game the Browns actually were thought to have two “capable” quarterbacks at their disposal and not placeholders named Ken Dorsey or Bruce Gradkowski.  But neither Brady Quinn nor Derek Anderson was able to put points on the board against a Green Bay defense that was us...

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