Mangenius post-game pressor

OconRecon · #1 (**permalink**) 11-07-2010

Posted by: Barry McBride
on Sunday, November 07, 2010 at 10:29:00 PM Transcript: Eric Mangini, 11/7

(Opening Statement)- “Good afternoon everybody, it feels pretty good after a win. I’m really proud of the way the guys played, really proud of the way they played. We were able to run the ball effectively (with) Peyton Hillis having 184 yards (and) being able to put up 230 yards rushing against them, a 5.2 yard average. Third downs offensively, all of that stuff, I thought, was very good football. The same thing defensively. Dealing with a guy like Tom (Brady) and an offense like that, not giving them a lot of pre-snap information was extremely important and I thought the guys did it well. I thought the coaches did a great job of getting them ready and as I said, I’m really proud of the effort today and the way that we played today. I know I’ve talked about this quite a bit, but that’s how I envision Browns football.”

(On what it means to defeat New Orleans and New England in consecutive games)- “I think it goes back to what we talked about a lot. First you learn how to work, then you learn how to compete, then you learn how to win and then you learn how to win consistently. What my expectation is that we are learning how to win, then we continue to learn how to win consistently. That’s the important thing is taking those steps as a team and understanding what we have to do each week because it’s going to be totally different next week against the Jets than it was this week. It’s going to be important that we execute that plan, that Sunday to win that game.”

(On what this win means to him personally in his career)- “It feels great. I feel like I’m in that movie ‘Ghosts of Girlfriends Past’, how we had New England this week and the Jets next week. It’s special and it’s special to me because of our guys, because of our team, not because of their team, because of our team. It’s a good group of guys that work hard and for me to see them be rewarded with the victories, that’s what’s special.”

(On the importance of Abram Elam’s forced fumble at the end of the first half when the Patriots were driving deep in their territory)- “It was a huge play. They’re driving down in typical New England fashion towards the end of the first half and I’ve had a bunch of games against them where they’ve been able to score at the end of the first half. To get that strip when we did was huge. It took points off of the board, totally changed the momentum going into the locker room and it was a pivotal play.”

(On if they had to entrust Colt McCoy to do more to win today)- “He’s continuing to earn that trust. Trust, we are talking about that all of the time. Trust is one of our core values and in order to have it, you need to be trustworthy and everybody needs to know that they can trust you. Colt has done an excellent job each week showing that he’s able to do a little bit more. As he does that, he’s getting a little bit more and he hasn’t disappointed.”

(On what specifically has happened in the past few weeks to get these two wins)- “I really think the thing that has been going on around here, and it’s been going on for some time, is consistency. That’s it. You have got to keep putting snow on that mountain and eventually, it triggers. It’s everybody making good decisions each day and there’s no magic formula and there’s no short cuts. It’s hard work and it’s consistent hard work.”

(On what he likes best about what McCoy did today)- “I like the way that he managed the game. We gave him quite a few alerts, which means he had to come out and look at what they’re playing and make decisions at the line of scrimmage. For the most part, he made really good decisions and he managed the team really well. Outside of that, I thought the scramble that he had for a touchdown was an outstanding play. I thought the other scramble that he had on the throw to (Joshua) Cribbs was another real outstanding play. He just hasn’t been phased.”

(On the scramble on a pass to Brian Robiskie being another good play)- “There’s another one, yes. He’s done a nice job with his feet and that adds another dimension to what he can do because it forces different types of rush lanes from the defense and it forces the coverage to hold up longer when you can do that with some success.”

(On the touchdown call to Chansi Stuckey and the job that Brian Daboll did today)- “Yes, that’s a play that we ran last year against Detroit and it went for a touchdown and got called back due to a holding penalty. We had it in this week and practiced it a few times. It got me at practice one time because I looked at it like, ‘What are we doing? We are not lined up, what is the problem?’ I wasn’t looking at the script at the time, ‘Okay, that’s what we’re doing.’ Brian has done a really good job. He has worked with a young quarterback and that’s hard to do. He’s worked with multiple quarterbacks this season, whether it’s Jake (Delhomme) or Seneca (Wallace). It’s not an easy thing as a coach, especially at that position, to be able to get the offense to run effectively. I think Brian has done well with that, Carl Smith deserves a lot of credit too. There’s a lot that goes into getting them ready and they’ve done well.”

(On if he feels more comfortable with Colt McCoy starting more games)- “I’ve been very comfortable with the things he’s done. I’m sure we’ll talk about this tomorrow and Wednesday and Thursday and Friday and Saturday, but thank you for bringing that up now. He’s done really well. I’m happy for him and am pleased with what he’s done.”

(On how the Gatorade bath felt)- “It felt warm and refreshing.”

(On the call to go for it early in the game on fourth and inches)- “Yes, there’s another good point on decision making. That’s something that you shift to and if you get an opening, you make that call, but that’s really the quarterback’s decision. If he thinks he can get it at that point and if he’s wrong, it’s points probably for the other team. Again, we trust him to go out there and do that and that’s something we work on all the time. We have some other plays off of that that we could go to, but that was the version that we chose there and it he made a good decision.”

(On it being demanding of him to trust him with big decisions in his third start)- “Yes, it is. Like I said, he’s earned it.”

(On if the decision is to go with the shift or to actually execute the sneak)- “It’s all built in and then it’s just based on the look. So if you have the look, you shift and see what look it is and then you can sneak it. There’s some passes off of it. There are a couple different things, those three options, that we gave at that point (and) the sneak option was his option there.”

(On if he could have not done the sneak after the shift)- “Yes, that’s right.”

(On what he said to Bill Belichick after the game)- “Good game.”

(On what Bill Belichick said after the game)- “Good game. We were making plans for the summer (joking).”

(On if he saw Brian Daboll get knocked down by Joe Thomas)- “I did. There’s a place for a little man invfootball, just not in front of the big man.”

(On if this is the first time Peyton Hillis has really been healthy since the Cincinnati game)- “No. Often times whether it’s the quarterback or the running back, when they have success in the passing game or the running game that player gets a lot of credit. But it’s Lawrence Vickers, the tight ends, the offensive line, it’s a group effort, the receivers and everybody has to do that. Then Peyton does a nice job of grinding down the defense which is fun to watch.”

(On the drive in the fourth quarter where they took eight minutes off the clock)- “Huge. The more time you can keep Tom Brady and that offense off the field, the better we are. It’s an offensive series, but it’s also a defensive series because that time ticks off and it keeps an explosive player and an explosive unit on the sideline.”

(On if this win was a more solid victory than the last)- “I know what you’re saying. That goes back to the whole concept of (planning differently for the) next week. I’m not sure what it’s going to be, I really have no idea, but we’re going to have some different things against that group. Against New Orleans, we saw some opportunities on special teams that we liked and they worked out great. This week we had a couple things that were different and those worked out. I’m sure versus New York, it’s going to be the same thing. I’m not sure what it’s going to be, but it’s going to have to be different in order to beat them.”

(On if the way McCoy has played has made him look at the quarterback roster differently now)- “It just reinforces that we have three guys that can go in and play the position and play it well and operate the offense well. To me, it’s a real positive. You never want to have three quarterbacks play, that’s not what you necessarily go into the season thinking, ‘Okay they’ll all be part of the season.’ But we have and for them to go in, all providing different pluses and all providing different problems, it’s just nice to see that from three different players. It’s really a compliment to the whole offensive group. It doesn’t matter who’s in, they’ve responded well.”

(On if McCoy will start next week)- “Can we just really enjoy this moment right here (joking)? We’ll talk about it tomorrow and Wednesday and Thursday and Friday and Saturday.”