WKSU News: Mangini ready to lead Browns

New head coach picks assistants, but still looking for QB

WKSU's Kevin Niedermier reports


	Reporter Kevin Niedermier

The Cleveland Brown's newest head coach is assessing players and starting to put together an organization he hopes will give long-suffering Brown's fans something to cheer about.

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Browns' new head coach Eric
Mangini takes questions at his first press conference at the team's headquarters in Berea

Eric Mangini has returned to where he started his N-F-L career
as a 23 year old ball boy and public relations intern for the Browns' in the mid-1990s. He says when Browns owner Randy Lerner called him about the job last week, it took him back to those early days.

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