And how does firing Kokinis make Mangini look good? It doesn't. But tell me, who literally still has a key to the office in Berea? 'Nuff said. It's not about making himself look good, it's about survival. Say what you want about his football acumen, but when it comes to office politics, Mangini is definitely no idiot.

Now Lerner being solely behind this, and not Mangini, makes much more sense. Lerner doesn't like what he sees with the bad start and he hates that the fans are getting restless. So, he sends his spies in to try to find dirt on anyone he can so that he can fire with a cause so he doesn't have to pay the rest of the contracts. He can't find anything on Mangini, but just say he thinks he can make the case against Kokinis for some reason. So, he fires Kokinis to shake things up to make room for the experiences football operations guy to take control as GM, and puts Mangini on notice that the new guy's going to come in and determine Mangini's fate.

I admit that I could be wrong and that Mangini could have orchestrated this whole thing, but it just doesn't make sense, especially with the timing of it.

This is no different than Al Davis who perpetually tries to build cases to fire guys "for cause" so he doesn't have to pay them their contracts. How much do you want to bet that Mangini, like a deluded Dick Nixon, even kept his own little dirty file on his "good friend" Kokinis. You know, just in case.

Seriously, dude, when you get to be as old and fossilized as Pat and me, with prostates the size of Spalding basketballs to prove it (that's me, I can't speak for Pat's prostate), you'll come to realize that the Browns are a company like any other company. It's survival of the fittest. Or, in Mangini's case, survival of the fattest. Common sense says that Mangini made the plan and bought the gun. Whoever actually pulled the trigger, who gives a crap. Irrelevant. This was Mangini's kill. When you're part of a retarded Mafia, which the Browns are, does it really matter who technically whacked whom?