Eric Mangini was back on the football field last week near his home in Cleveland.
The former Jets coach was putting a group of defensive backs through drills … but these DBs were just 7 and 8 years old. It was his son Zack’s flag football team, which Mangini is helping coach.
“They don’t quite move as fluidly as [Darrelle] Revis did,” Mangini said jokingly.
It has been 10 years since Mangini took New York by storm. A baby-faced 35-year-old who excited the city in that first season as Jets coach by defecting from New England and turning the Jets into a playoff team, it is easy to forget how big of a star Mangini was.