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Back to the world of professional football. As expected, after Bill Cowher said no, the Cleveland Browns have brought in former New York Jets head coach Eric Mangini, to man the same position. He brings with him a 23-25 career record, after three seasons with the Jets. He is expected to bring along the Jets quarterbacks coach, Brian Daboll, to run the offense and Raiders defensive coordinator Rob Ryan, to mind the same position. Also a possibility to stay on is, recently fired Browns head coach, Romeo Crennel who worked with Mangini while with the Patriots. Mangini takes over a Browns team that has much higher expectations and talent than the Browns that Crennel took over four years ago. Mangini received a four year contract to run the Browns, and see if he can turn them into a playoff team.

On another note former 49ers running backs coach, Tom Rathman, was brought back by new head coach Mike Singletary to take over the same role with the team. Rathman, who manned the same position with the Raiders for the last two season, is a former 49er fullback and was the teams running backs coach from 1997-2002 before following former head coach Steve Mariucci to Detroit. Singletary interviewed Rathman on Tuesday and didn't delay in bringing him on to his staff, which he wants to become more of a running offense, even before hiring an offensive coordinator.

There are still teams that need head coaches and assistants, so we will see many more moves in the coming weeks.


-Daemon