The Browns under Eric Mangini

Eric Mangini got his start in the NFL in 1994 as a ballboy with the Browns and became a friend of Cleveland head coach Bill Belichick.  Mangini stayed with the franchise through 1996, its first year as the Baltimore Ravens.

In 1997, Mangini rejoined Belichick on the New York Jets coaching staff under Bill Parcells.  When Belichick became head coach of the New England Patriots in 2000, he hired Mangini as his defensive backs coach.  Over the next few seasons, the Patriots won three Super Bowls.  When the Browns hired Patriots defensive coordinator Romeo Crennel in 2005, Mangini took over the New England defense.

Eric Mangini was hired as head coach of the New York Jets in 2006 and led them to the playoffs in his first year.  During his three years as coach of the Jets, Mangini had a falling out with his former mentor and new division rival Bill Belichick that reached its most public level in 2007 when Mangini revealed that the Patriots had broken NFL regulations by videotaping the Jets' defensive signals, resulting in league penalties and media scrutiny.

Mangini was fired from the Jets after narrowly missing the playoffs in 2008 with veteran QB Brett Favre at the helm of the offense.  In 2009, Mangini continued the palindromic pattern of his career when he was hired as the 15th head coach of the Cleveland Browns.  It is now Mangini's task to revitalize the Browns as he did the Jets in his first year.