Hostile
The Duke
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How do you win friends and influence people at a new job? Let’s ask the Cleveland Browns’ Mangini, who made news earlier this week for getting docked $25,000 by the NFL office – a result of his failure to disclose Favre’s biceps injury as the coach of the Jets last December. Since arriving in Cleveland, Mangini has alienated players and other employees with an arrogant, secretive, heavy-handed leadership style. Most infamously, he essentially forced the team’s rookies to take a 10-hour bus ride from Cleveland to Hartford, Conn., to work at his football camp. (Mangini flew to Hartford, but after news of the rookies’ plight broke he was shamed into returning on the bus with his players.) According to a source familiar with the Browns’ internal situation, Mangini also instituted a curfew for rookies and free agents staying at a hotel near the team’s facility during some offseason workouts, even on Memorial Day weekend – which, if proven, would be a blatant violation of the collective bargaining agreement. Mangini’s latest, according to the source: One player was fined $1,701 (the maximum allowed under the CBA) because he failed to pay for a $3 bottle of water he’d consumed at a hotel while the team was on the road. Gee, if the Browns keep losing and some guys on the team stop playing hard for this guy, I wonder why that’ll be?
