Cleveland Browns Owner Randy Lerner's Search for a Guru Needs To End Soon

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Week Nine of the 2009 NFL season was and will be one of the most talked about weeks in the Cleveland Browns history for many years to come.

It was the week that Browns owner Randy Lerner finally stepped in with an axe and chopped down his general manager, George Kokinis, for mysterious reasons that are all hearsay despite several interesting stories that have been published regarding the matter.

Now the rumors are spreading like wildfire that Lerner is enamoured with former coach Mike Holmgren, but remembered the last time Lerner became obsessed with a guy he wanted to hire with Eric Mangin?

Look how that has turned out.

Regardless, Lerner being obsessed with Holmgren is much better than Mangini, but Lerner needs to sit back and fully analyze and research this football czar that he wants to hire before jumping into a decision like he has done in the past.

Whoever Lerner does hire, hopefully he is looking at these select individuals including: Ernie Accorsi, Marty Schottenhiemer, Holmgren, Bill Cowher, Mike Shanahan, and Tony Dungy.

Lerner's pick should be one of these names, period.

Apparently, Lerner also wants to hire in his franchise savior within the next week or two, so his new guru will be able to evaluate the current roster and Mangini.

Lerner does not want to pay more former employees, since he is already paying out approximately $20 million to Romeo Crennel and Phil Savage, but if his football guru says Mangini has to go at the end of this season, then that's what needs to happen and Lerner's bottom line will have to inflate by paying Mangini, too.

Getting the right person in place to lead this team as the new "face of the franchise" of the Browns is a very important decision that Lerner needs to choose wisely, but quickly in order to properly evaluate the current Browns for the future.

Mangini's "process" is not a "process" anymore, especially once the czar is in place, and it is now a "process" to save his own job, which may be a lost cause anyway.

(Article also posted on Dawg Scooper .)

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