Is this the voice of reason?? coaching change?

[DawgFan]

Eric Mangini said that having McCoy prepare for the offense twice for the Steelers helps with continuity.

“It affects continuity,” Mangini said. “Having some continuity and here’s what we did in the first game and what we could’ve done and what to look for. It resonates, because he’s seen it and experienced it.”

Mangini said there is an obvious advantage to have just one quarterback.

“It changes things for a lot of reasons when you have one guy, one voice and you’re building guys working together,” he said. “When you build continuity, you can do things in other areas to reinforce continuity. It affects a lot of thing with chemistry.”

This was pulled from the Tomlin likes Colt thread...but it was very interesting to me that the coach is basically saying the same things some of us have been. CONTINUITY is the KEY!

Look at it this way, how many games do you think losing your starting QB costs a team. NE went from 16-0 with Brady to 11-5 with Cassel...and that was only one QB change for the entire year on a GREAT team.

Aaron Rodgers goes down in GB....they lose. Ben out in Pittsburgh, they struggle and only won many of them due to GREAT defense. Romo out in Dallas..5-10. I could go on...but you get the point.

Losing the starting QB generally can account for 2-3 losses...losing the second string on top of that and you can add at least another game.

So, let's just say we lost 3 games to losing the QB and the continuity that brings....not hard to say considering that we lost most of our games by 1 score. That puts us at 8-7...but even if it was 7-8, wouldn't that be enough?

We all figured this team was a 7-9 team going in...then to lose all 3 QB's at one time or another, to only be 2 games off is actually pretty amazing.

Anyway, enough pontificating...I just think that CIRCUMSTANCES have adversely effected the offense and overall continuity of the team to the point that our current record is less important than the level of play...and this team has competed in every game. With a few DL, a RT, and a nice WR we could easily see this group of coaches take this team to the playoffs next year.

[mohican]

setting the record aside - one of the factors I view is how the team responds to the coach.

Last year, during the chicago game, it was apparent that nobody cared, and they played like it. Its not often that they show an angry owner heading for the locker room at halftime. Randy Lerner was livid. The 2nd half of the 2009 season, more of "manginii's players" were playing, people bought in, and they went on a run.

Cribbs seemed to be the only player that benefited from that run. Harrison was a workhorse those games and saved Mangini's job. That's the long and short of it. And for whatever reasons, he was removed from the gameplan. The same issues that plagued the team in pass protection stemming from the right side of the line re-appeared in 2010, and have been magnified by occasional bad games by the entire O-Line.

The Buffalo and Cinci games showed what, a lack of effort? like the players weren't playing for Mangini?

The effort at Baltimore was better, but how much?

Pittsburg has a potentiall week 1 playoff bye and division championship on the line. They will be jacked up. If we can't match their intensity, If the players don't get up for this game, then I think it's time for Mangini to go. I'm not talking about win he stays, lose he goes. I talking about a ass-klicking and he goes. I want someone on offense on the very first play to put a helment in Harrisons ear hole or knee cap and knock him out of the game.

I'm sick of watching the Browns play by Queensberry rules at a street brawl. That attitude starts at the Coaching level. nuff said.

[Masters]

Teams offensive philosophy comes from the HC. OC's don't set the philosophy, they execute it.

Coming into this year I was hearing look how CLE won their last 4 games last season with all of the injuries, as rational to prop up how much they were coming along. Now this year there is similar number of injuries and it's a valid excuse for bad showings? It can't be both ways.