Eric Mangini, Day 6. In the meantime, Hue Jackson will have 12.5 percent of the NFL barking after him as soon as the Cincinnati Bengals fire Marvin Lewis for the sins of Mike Brown’s employees.
And yes, I know the Bengals are leaking that they have no plans to fire Lewis, but it’s early yet. An owner embarrassed is an owner who wants bodies stacked in the corner, and Brown can’t fire his general manager for the obvious reason.
[RELATED: Bengals implode late, Steelers advance in AFC playoffs]
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In other news, the National Football League made 268,514 people sad and angry this weekend, especially when you throw in with the psychic cost of watching their teams vomit all over themselves, the cost of the tickets, parking, food, drink, handwarmers and firewood.
This, Los Angeles, is your fate. Suckers. Think about that before you buy that personal seat anchor.
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By the way, for the 49ers’ needs to get back to the playoffs, they need to draft a rookie who just turned 33 and has 10-plus years of NFL experience. That’s the average playoff quarterback going into Week 2 – in other words, Ben Roethlisberger.
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Rob Ryan has signed on to be the assistant head coach/defense for his brother Rex in Buffalo. This means the Bills should either finish 16-0 next year or 0-16. Anything between those two poles will be inadequate.
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And finally on football, Donald Trump said Saturday that the NFL is “soft, like this country.” He is clearly running out of targets to slander and remain electable. Next up: Orphans, organ donors and other billionaires.
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From NBC World Headquarters, this: Mike Emrick listened to Lady Gaga’s speech at the Golden Globes, sighed sadly at her stamina and resigned.
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The Brooklyn Nets are so bereft of ideas that they are asking the Billy King to offer ideas on who the team’s next general manager should be. King’s recommendation will help owner Mikhail Prokhorov replace King himself. He should therefore offer the name Kate Winslet. You know Prokhorov would bite, given that he knows neither acting nor basketball.
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And about basketball, the social media race to name either Draymond Green or Kawhi Leonard to the NBA Western Conference All-Star Team is so monumentally pointless, as (a) everyone already knows their full depth and breadth, and (b) they are so already going.
In other words, name them both, kill the game, and don’t come back until you come up with a more rational way to do this than coax the support of fellow robofans.
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And finally, if the 49ers strike out with Hue Jackson they could make a run at Taraji Henson, the best actress winner at the Golden Globes who slapped down the clockwatchers with a properly delivered, “Please wrap? I been waiting 20 years for this. You’re gon’ wait.”
[MAIOCCO: Source: Jackson has productive meeting with 49ers, no offer yet]
If that doesn’t snap Jed’n’Trent out of their chairs, then nobody can, and they may as well coach the damned team themselves.
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