http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/news;_ylt=AuYFnFFCtW4z6WMb0LOXXW1DubYF?slug=ap-mangini-fakeinjuries&prov=ap&type=lgns

Nate D. wrote about Mangini earlier, but I thought some things should be brought to everyone's attention that weren't being discussed.  He seems grossly uninterested in providing evidence to back up his claims.

We all have pretty much expressed our distaste for Mangini and we are not alone.  He is constantly losing respect as a head coach all across the league with his weekly ridiculousness.  I guess he is trying to top himself as each week passes, because we saw this one was no different.

Some quotes I found interesting:

• He was asked if the NFL’s competition committee should look into stopping the practice of pretending to be injured to stop the flow of the game.   His response = "It’s subjective," he said. "How do you know what is and isn’t an injury?"   If you admit it's subjective and that it isn't possible to know whether someone is actually injured or not, why even venture to bring it up?   It seems to me that if Stafford doesn't throw the winning TD at the end, we don't hear anything from Mangini about this.   He's saying he has no evidence of this, yet brings it up like we should be suddenly skeptical of Schwartz and the team.
• He also felt that the pass interference call at the end of the game was incorrect (no surprise there). 
  

  "I can’t control that call," Mangini said. "I haven’t been a part of any calls like that, I haven’t seen it called, where it affected the outcome of a game like it did, but I have absolutely no control over what they call. It’s really not illegal contact when the guy’s out of the pocket or scrambling. But they called it."

  Mangini was asked if Poteat was flagged because the ball was in the air.

  "Yeah, I guess that’s what they called it for," he said. "I haven’t seen it, haven’t been a part of it. It’s their call. We’ll live with it."   So what I am gathering from this is that he never watches NFL games.  He hasn't seen a penalty at the end of a game before.  So, that would explain why there are a number of official rules that govern such situations.  It's not illegal to tackle a WR if the QB is out of the pocket?  Is that what I am hearing?  So no holds barred simply because time has run out?  Tony Dungy commented on this and said that it is absurd to suddenly change the rules because of the time left in the game.  Not to mention, Poteat at least admitted that it was one of the those plays that could've been called either way.   Though he wasn't giving it to the refs, he wasn't denying it either.  Mangini isn't capable of this though.   Then, to make it all better....he admits he hasn't even watched the tape, but is still making judgements on the call.  Embarrassing admission to his own anti-intellectual nature.

What I am getting from this mammoth waste of space is that he projects everything outward and doesn't seem interested in providing facts for anything he blames on others.   Eric, perhaps you should consider the fact that the Browns just aren't that good this year.  Maybe you should consider the fact that you blew a 24-3 lead on the road to a young Lions team that is struggling.  Perhaps you should consider that you are about to be unemployed and no team will be hiring you again because you have less class than a school on summer vacation. 

Lions won fair and square.  Suck it up, Eric.