The chances of erstwhile colleagues and buddies Bill Belichick and Eric Mangini being reunited have seemed remote…until now.  They appear together this week in our Braincramp of the Week section as our first two nominees.

Nominee #1 – Bill Belichick: Sunday night’s shocking decision to go for it on 4th down from their own 28 with 2:00 remaining and leading by 6 would on it’s own be enough to find a spot here, but blowing his last two timeouts moments before was beyond explanation.  Without a remaining timeout, Belichick was unable to challenge the spot of the ball on their misguided 4th down play.  The resulting Colt’s winning touchdown falls squarely on the shoulders of the biggest ego in the NFL – Nice job, Bill!

Nominee #2 – Eric Mangini: The “Mangenious” was up to his usual bizarre behaviour about 24 hours after Belichick’s Braincramp with one of his own.  At the end of their completely futile effort against the Ravens and trailing 16-0, Mangini used the last play of the game to enact his own version of the “Stanford Band” play. Notwithstanding the fact that victory was impossible, the Browns were out there lateraling the ball as only the hapless Browns can when Mangini’s best player Joshua Cribbs was absolutely annihilated by the Ravens hulking defensive end Dwan Edwards.  After Cribbs was stretchered off the field and taken to hospital, Mangini sheepishly admitted that the play call may not have been the shrewdist one, “In retrospect I would probably do (the last play) differently if I had to it again”. Ya think?! Would somebody please put Mangini out of his misery soon!