Report: Mangini Fired
Jets coach Eric Mangini has been fired, a league source told the website Profootballtalk.com. A press conference is scheduled for 2:45 p.m. Jets GM Mike Tannenbaum and owner Woody Johnson will be in attendance. According to PFT, Mangini will not be.
I just made a call to the Jets and Tannenbaum is in a meeting and unavailable.
Mangini was hired by New York in 2006. He led the Jets to the playoffs that year but the team bottomed out to 4-12 last year. This season, the Jets were chugging along at 8-3 before losing four of their final five games. Sunday's 24-17 loss to Miami at home was, apparently, the final straw.
Mangini and Tannenbaum are very close so expect a lot of hand-wringing at 2:45.
Meanwhile, it will be interesting to see where Mangini lands in 2009 or beyond. There was much speculation that, after the Patriots were turned in for illegally videotaping the Jets in the first game last season, Mangini would have a tough time finding a landing spot with another team having "ratted out" his former employers.
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Nice job on the Pennington piece-I saw no quotes from him on any other sight including NY papers. Best sub-plot in the NFL in quite a while. Good Stuff
The Jets did better than Green Bay. Imagine what they feel like after letting Farve go. Farve would have done better in Green Bay were he wouldn't have had to come into a new system like he did in New York. I think Farve did well. I hope he comes back.
It's crazy; the regular season just ended 12 hours ago, and I'm already trying to decide which teams is going to try and land Marty Schottenheimer and Bill Cowher. For me, Schotty would seem the perfect fit in Detroit. Marty is great at rebuilding teams. The front office is weak, so he would get much more leeway in decision making that he ever got with the Chargers.
Why do they have to fire Mangini? Was it really because the Jets lost..? If that is so then said ground is not sufficient to warrant firing of Mangini.. Mangini will be another loss for the Jets.
Eric will never land another job in the NFL.
What comes around, goes around.
Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy! Manweeni, the rat, good riddance!
I hope Favre goes also.
Revenge is a dish best served cold...so good riddance to bad rubbish.
Although it's hard to say how he could be blamed for Favre playing like crap.
NBC must do story during Jan 1 hockey game of the Cubs curse spread to Hawks. John McDonough was 24 year exec with Cubs now is Hawks president. Hawks have missed the boat with the community and the Cubs curse has spread. ubs curse started not just since Sam Siannis couldn’t bring his goat to a Cub game, he was insulted for his Greek ethnicity by Cubs. The Cubs blew it with the Bartman ball and the Tribune Co., Tribune newspaper and WGN TV and radio ridiculed Bartman and profited and the baseball gods don’t like that. A lady died at Hawks game this year, her mother also died at Hawks game, that is a passing of the curse to this generation. Now McDonough has sealed the fate of the Hawks by orchestrating the Hawks game inside Wrigley Field. Hawks will not win the Stanley Cup until the Cubs win the World Series. Bob Costas and the head honchos at NBC must know about this, you underlings and minions must not conceal this story from him. Mr Costas has ties with Chicago journalism, he got a sports journalism award from the Chicago Athletic Association and he has the integrity not to chicken out from this story. We will wait and not tell other media about this story until NBC has chance to do it. Don’t blow it, you don’t want what happened to Tribune Co, the owner of the Cubs, the curse spread to them and they are in bankruptcy.
On the subject of firings, how about nbc fire Keith Olberman from telecasting on nbc sports. Send the guy back to msnbc where he belongs. After his ridiculously partisan babble during the elections, I can hardly stand listening to the guy. During pre-game, post-game coverage I'll keep it on espn, thank you.
Eric
Would love to see this headline soon... Report: NBC Sports' Olbermann Fired. Why does NBC Sports subject us to this goof? I don't want to listen to the likes of him during a football game, even pregame, any more than I do Rush Limbaugh on Monday Night Football. Let him rant into his own darkness on cable news if you must. But his arrogant bafoonery on MSNBC has turned him into the sports' department's version of "rescue mission uncle" who shows up for family gatherings and makes everyone uncomfortable. After doing his lunatic fringe act night after night on MSNBC, he is out of place and just plain bazaar sitting with guys like Costas, et al.