Time now for a little house-cleaning! I owe “Coach Mangustus” an apology. I took a pretty good run at Browns’ head coach Eric Mangini for getting his only good player Josh Cribbs jacked up by calling that absurd lateral play at the end of Sunday’s loss to the Ravens. And said that whatever cred’ he had left went right out the door with that horrible call. One problem…the play didn’t come from the sideline! Q.B. Brady Quinn made the call at the line himself.
“Mangustus”, I apologize for putting that all on you. My bad! So take yesterday’s take and simply change out Mangini’s name for Quinn’s.
Cribbs was pretty magnanimous in saying he doesn’t have a problem with still being in the game…even though it was over. Nor, does he have a problem with Quinn calling that play, and telling his teammates to keep it alive. Keep it alive?! To quote my man, Ricky Watters: for who?! For what?! Keep it alive long enough to get one of your teammates concussed in a game that was already over. Run it into the line. Don’t get anyone hurt! Get off the field! And live to lose another day! How hard is that?!
Boy, Brady Quinn had a day didn’t he? He got his best weapon’s melon smashed in, and that was after he cost the Ravens one of their best players with that cheap-shot at Terrell Suggs’ knees. And no one’s buying it Brady. That you were just trying to get to the guy with the ball! Not the officials who flagged you on the play. And not the NFL…who fined you for the hit.
