Mangini drops the hammer for a bottle of water

Eric Mangini is a tough coach who knows how to win while still being friends with everyone. He is a winner, plain and simple. And he doesn’t care, he’ll be your friend and be awfully affable if that’s what it takes to get the job done.

Forcing Cleveland Browns rookies to hop a bus for a 10-hour bus ride to work for free at his football camp in Hartford, CT? They’d have HATED him for that if he didn’t take a plane there on his own, which he did. They still talk fondly of that day. Instituting a mandatory curfew for rookies and free agents at a team hotel near offseason workouts? No problem, Mangini will do it, and you’ll like him even more for it.

Photo Caption: Mangini being a douche? That’s a “shocker.”

What an awesome guy. And now, in a move that truly sets the standard for affability, an internal Browns source – who probably is a huge Mangini fan himself – tells Michael Silver of Yahoo! Sports that Mangini fined a player $1,701 for not paying for a $3 bottle of water in a hotel while on the road for a preseason game.

Seriously.

The $1,701 is the maximum allowed under the CBA and will surely make that player want to lay down in traffic for this guy who has. Won. Absolutely. Nothing.

Mangini, you are a douchebag. We mean it. The Browns made a huge mistake and you’ll never get another head coaching gig again.