Kosar Interview

[CLEVELandMILIDH]

Kosar discusses his role with the Browns

 

Posted by Gregg Rosenthal on November 7, 2009 6:30 PM ET

 

Bernie Kosar wants to make it clear he's not an employee of the Browns. He's "been in the building a lot," but he's just a consultant. When asked on ESPN Cleveland this week what that means exactly, Kosar was vague.

 

"I don't know. It's evolving," Kosar said. "People think that I've got a master plan and 'Bernie's being secretive.' Sometimes in life, there are things that go beyond football. There's personal issues that evolve. Things happen to people that are beyond football. . . . There's other things going on with people, their own personal health, and their families that override football. You have to be really, really, be careful about what you say."

 

Kosar joked that he recently learned how to tie a tie as part of his evolving role. His comments on the thought process behind G.M. George Kokinis' firing were the most revealing of his 15 minute interview. Kosar describes a situation where coach Eric Mangini and owner Randy Lerner remain in step.

 

"[Lerner] and coach Eric have been on the same page in terms of - [Lerner] hasn't undermined Eric's authority, he hasn't undermined the coach's power. This is a decision with the general manager that both of them was the best of the team," Kosar said. "Players, if they aren't doing their job, and they aren't getting their job done, they get cut. It's got to be the same in the personnel department."

 

That may be true, but it's fair to wonder whether a possible "football czar" will cut Mangini.

 

The coach seems safe for the rest of the 2009 season, so he has to decide what to do at the quarterback position. Kosar said that he doesn't see a rift between Mangini and Brady Quinn, but that Mangini hasn't decided who will start at quarterback after Cleveland's bye.

 

Kosar knows all about quarterback drama in Cleveland. 16 years ago today, Kosar started his final game as a Brown. Bill Belichick cut him shortly thereafter in a wildly controversial move and is still not a favorite among Browns fans because of it. Belichick and Mangini have that much in common.

[kshutchins]

Kosar said: "People think that I've got a master plan and 'Bernie's being secretive.' Sometimes in life, there are things that go beyond football. There's personal issues that evolve. Things happen to people that are beyond football. . . . There's other things going on with people, their own personal health, and their families that override football. You have to be really, really, be careful about what you say."

 

What on earth does this mean?

[calfoxwc]

It could have been some behavior on job time by Kokinis that was not allowed,

 

maybe computer/email, could be a lot things, that the Browns won't say much about.

 

I can see that IF the above were true, the statements by Kosar could match that kind of situation...

 

Saw it happen years ago. Somebody printed out an xxx-rated pic on the printer. Trouble was, the printer

 

server sent down, and the next morning, a female co-worker picking up her printing while teasing me

 

about trying to get me to also dress up like a smurf with them for Halloween, saw that xxx-rated print.

 

She was sick about it - we both went to the boss, I just backed her up.

 

The admin folks tracked it back to the computer it came from, and the guy was toast, out of a job,

 

only after they researched and found other sites etc, often by the same computer during work days.

 

Hey, maybe with Kokinis it's something very different.

 

But it would hurt his family, etc, so the media will probably never know why he's gone.

 

Wouldn't have happened if it wasn't very justified. Surely has nothing to do with football. Whatever.

[vdogrowz]

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Kosar said: "People think that I've got a master plan and 'Bernie's being secretive.' Sometimes in life, there are things that go beyond football. There's personal issues that evolve. Things happen to people that are beyond football. . . . There's other things going on with people, their own personal health, and their families that override football. You have to be really, really, be careful about what you say."

 

 

 

This is but one of many examples of why BK belongs nowhere near an executive position with an NFL team at this time. This statement is incredibly unfair to Kokinis, if in fact BK is even talking about Kokinis, or is he talking about himself? Either shut up in regards to Kokinis, or lay out the facts so that even worse than the actual truth is not assumed or implied.