The reborn NFL team went 4-12 this year. From ESPN-
Barely into another massive rebuilding project, the Cleveland Browns have already moved to Plan B.Cowher is already saying he isn't interested in the Cleveland job. As for Crennel, he had a chance to turn around the pathetic Browns. He didn't do it, and I see Cleveland as more than justified in deciding it was time to move on.Plan A -- or Plan Cowher -- has been scrapped.
Browns owner Randy Lerner made his second major move of the offseason Monday by firing coach Romeo Crennel, who lost 40 games in four seasons, never made the playoffs and went 0-8 against Pittsburgh, the only full-time Cleveland coach to go winless against the archrival Steelers.
Crennel's dismissal came less than 24 hours after Lerner fired general manager Phil Savage following a 31-0 loss in Pittsburgh.
The Browns, who began the season pegged as one of the NFL's rising teams and ended it at 4-12 and in last place, began their offseason with a disheartening loss.
Note- Oddly Crennel's name came up a year ago after the Miami Dolphins fired Cam Cameron.
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The CHFF year in review<br ... (Below threshold)1. Posted by Rick Stoppe | December 31, 2008 6:01 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
The CHFF year in review
Cold, Hard Football Facts for December 30, 2008
Exposed Donkey Rat Fraud of 2008 - Eric Mangini
First, Mangini repays his mentor, Bill Belichick, by stabbing him in the back to take a job with the arch-rival Jets - even attempting to woo Belichick's staff with the 2005 postseason still in progress. What a donkey.
Then in his second season, Mangini reported his former mentor to league officials for engaging in an activity that every team in the NFL engaged in - attempting to decipher their opponents' signals. What a rat.
For an encore in his third season, Mangini fell in love with a washed-up old gunslinger who hadn't closed out a season strong since 1997, and his organization dumped the perfectly good quarterback it had in its stable, who ended up with a divisional rival. Mangini then watched helplessly as the perfectly good QB dumped in August had an MVP-caliber season, while the washed up old gunslinger the Jets fell in love with in August fell apart in December like a Mideast peace treaty. What a fraud.
On the way out of town, in the season finale, Magini's pigskin paramour looked completely confused in a home loss against - you guessed - the quarterback the Jets had dumped. Mangini was fired within 24 hours of the loss.
It couldn't have happened to a more ungrateful fraud.
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