By Tom Rock
Eric Mangini must have woken this morning, heard the drip drip drip of rain on his window, and smiled. He was still in a good mood when he came into the press room to meet with us around 1 p.m. Forget about calling him the Penguin, Mangini loves the rain so much maybe he should be known as The Duck.
“I think it’s great: cold, hot, snow, wind, rain, hail. Whatever it is. Noise. The more distractions you have, the tougher it is, the more pressure that the group can be under collectively.”
Me, I’ll be under my umbrella rather than pressure.
Mangini didn’t have much to say on the Michael Vick plea deal, other than saying it’s “obviously unfortunate for everybody involved.” That’s a much better response than earlier in the preseason when he inadvertently mis-spoke and said that the Jets condone animal cruelty.
I have to run out to practice, but Mangini had some good analysis of some plays that occurred in practice last night. He was able to find film from previous games in which similar plays proved costly to teams. He was able to give details of plays from as far back as 2000. “You can tell they left scars,” he said.
I’ll post more when I dry off from practice.
Comments (1)
Hey Eric, I also condone animal cruelty.