Oh, Mangini. Remember when we thought you were going to take the Jets somewhere, back when Farve donned a gangreen #4 and the team was still 8-1. Somewhere between the Jets hitting 8-2 and your current 1-6 record with the Cleveland Browns, you decided you had to prove how tough you really were. After all, you are the same coach who prefers to play it safe over taking chances, which is respectable in many games. Like when you play, say, the Patriots.
Mangini, we know you come from the Bill Belichick School of Say Nothing To The Press And Wear Sleeves-Cut-off Hoodies [fine education at that university], but did you really have to prove this by fining one of your players $1,701 for forgetting to pay for a bottle of water from his hotel room...that cost $3? That is one expensive plastic bottle. And here I thought Poland Spring had gotten pricey.
We get it, Mangini. You've got to teach those players a lesson! Show them that they can't get away with nothin' round these here parts of Ohio! But maybe asking him nicely to pay the hotel the $3 would have been acceptable? Hell, charge him interest - make him pay $5! There's a very thin line between hardass coach and trying-too-hard coach, and, Mangini, you've proven that you are still a Belichick student. Almost there, head coach. Almost.
Could be worse for that unnamed Browns player though. He could have worn a Jason mask during pregame introductions and been fined $10,000 for being an idiot. Yes, I'm talking to you, Sheldon Brown. Save that for Halloween, eh?
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