Mangini knows Browns need to get off to fast start

BEREA, Ohio (AP) -Cleveland Browns coach Eric Mangini doesn't have the hangdog look of a man whose job teeters on the brink.

As he strolled from station to station on the field at Saturday's first practice of training camp, there were no singe marks on his baggy shorts from that hot seat on which he's sitting. He looked tanned and comfortable as he began his second year as head coach of the Browns - something that seemed almost impossible as winter set in for good on nearby Lake Erie in December.

Mangini knows things have to change in Cleveland, a city awaiting the next major disappointment from one of its sports teams. The cycle of losing, of pessimism, has to end. Now.