Eric Mangini Biography, Wife, NFL, Sapranos, Career And Net Worth.

Eric Mangini Biography

Eric Mangini born Eric Anthony Mangini is an American football coach who last served as the defensive coordinator for the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League (NFL). Mangini had been with the 49ers since 2013 and served as the team’s tight ends coach for two seasons before being promoted to defensive coordinator in 2015, only to be fired in 2016 by new head coach Chip Kelly.

Eric Mangini Age

Eric Anthony Mangini was born in Hartford, Connecticut on January 19, 1971. He is 48 years of age.

Eric Mangini Wife

Mangini is a married man. He and his wife Julie have three sons, Jake, Luke and Zack, whose middle names honor influential figures in his career. Jake Harrison is named after former Patriots’ safety Rodney Harrison, Luke William is named after Patriots’ head coach Bill Belichick and Zack Brett is named after former Green Bay Packers’ quarterback Brett Favre. Zack was born on Favre’s 39th birthday, and Mangini had promised Favre that he would name his son after the quarterback if he signed with the Jets.

Toronto Blue Jays’ president Mark Shapiro is Mangini’s brother-in-law and sports agent Ron Shapiro, who currently represents him, is his father-in-law.

Mangini had a cameo role in an episode of the crime drama The Sopranos. In the scene, Mangini is referred to by his nickname, “Mangenius”.

On August 4, 2011, it was announced that Mangini would join ESPN as an NFL studio analyst on NFL Live, SportsCenter, ESPN First Take, and other programs.

Eric Mangini Career

College

Mangini played nose tackle at Division III Wesleyan University and holds the school’s single-season (11.5) and career (36.5) sacks records. During the second semester of his junior and senior years, he coached the Kew Colts, a semi-professional football team in Melbourne, Australia, to two regional championships. He joined the Chi Psi Fraternity that coaching mentor Bill Belichick, another Wesleyan alumnus, was part of two decades earlier.

Coaching career

NFL

Assistant coach

Mangini first caught the attention of Bill Belichick, under whom he would coach for nine seasons, as a 23-year-old ball boy with the Cleveland Browns. His work ethic impressed Belichick, and the head coach was instrumental in promoting Mangini to a public relations intern, and later, an offensive assistant.

After spending 1996 as an offensive assistant with the Baltimore Ravens, he rejoined Belichick and spent three seasons as a defensive assistant with the New York Jets. When Belichick was hired as the New England Patriots head coach in 2000, he brought along Mangini as his defensive backs coach. Mangini, who won three Super Bowls with the Patriots, turned down defensive coordinator positions with the Miami Dolphins, Oakland Raiders and Cleveland Browns before accepting the role with New England in 2005.

Head coach

New York Jets

Mangini, 35, became the youngest head coach in the NFL when he was hired by the New York Jets on January 17, 2006, to replace Herm Edwards. He beat internal candidates Donnie Henderson, Mike Heimerdinger and Mike Westhoff and external candidates Jim Haslett, Mike Tice, Tim Lewis and Joe Vitt for the job. He was quickly nicknamed “The Penguin” by receiver Laveranues Coles because of his waddle and a fierce stare.

In his first season, Mangini led the Jets to a 10–6 record and a postseason berth with NFL Comeback Player of the Year quarterback Chad Pennington. The Jets, who finished the previous year 4–12, lost to the New England Patriots in a wild-card playoff game.

The Jets went 4–12 in 2007, failing to make the playoffs. Early in the regular season, Mangini complained to league officials that Belichick’s Patriots illegally filmed the Jets’ defensive signals, exposing the “Spygate” scandal.

In 2008, a late-season collapse—the Jets missed the playoffs despite an 8–3 startled to Mangini’s firing on December 29, 2008, one day after the season ended.

Cleveland Browns

Mangini was hired as the head coach of the Cleveland Browns on January 7, 2009, signing a four-year deal. Mangini faced early criticism in his tenure with the Browns for his tendency to micromanage the team and his disregard for the team’s history (one of his first acts was to tear down a mural of Browns’ greats on the wall of the team office).

Sports Illustrated columnist Joe Posnanski went so far as to call Mangini’s hiring by the Browns as the worst coaching hire from the past 25 years.

In his 2013 memoir, former player Nate Jackson, who was briefly part of the Browns’ practice squad during the 2009 preseason, sharply criticized Mangini. Jackson wrote that Mangini’s coaching style had so alienated his players that they seemed “deep in despair” with “no fight left in them” only a few months after Mangini took over.

After starting his first season in Cleveland 1–11, the team bounced back with a win over their division rival and defending Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers. This started a four-game winning streak to end the season with a 5–11 record. On January 7, 2010, it was announced that Mike Holmgren had decided to retain Mangini as head coach of the Browns for the 2010 season.

Mangini’s second season was highlighted with back-to-back upsets over the defending Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints and New England Patriots. The Browns were forced to start rookie quarterback Colt McCoy due to injuries to starting quarterback Jake Delhomme. The season also saw the breakout of running back Peyton Hillis. These developments, however, did not amount to any marked improvement, as the Browns once again finished 5–11.

On January 3, 2011, Mangini was fired with a 10–22 record as the head coach of the Browns.

San Francisco 49ers

Mangini was hired by the San Francisco 49ers as a senior offensive consultant on June 4, 2013. On February 20, 2014, he was promoted to be the tight ends coach. On January 22, 2015, he was again promoted to be the defensive coordinator. However, after just one season, he was released along with most of the coaching staff after head coach Jim Tomsula was fired and replaced by Chip Kelly.

Eric Mangini Net Worth

Eric currently works as an NFL analyst, and reportedly earns about $200,000 from Fox Sports. He is living a comfortable life spending what he made during his coaching career. His net worth is estimated to be around $1 million.

Eric Mangini Fox Sports

He is an analyst for Fox Sports.

Eric Mangini Sopranos

Mangini survives appearance on ‘The Sopranos’.

I think ‘star’ would be a little bit too strong a word,”
Mangini said Monday with a chuckle. “It was just nice to be a part
of a show that I’ve followed for so long. I’ve liked the show since
it started and to have the opportunity to be part of it, especially
here at the end, it was just a great opportunity.”

The scene took place at the fictional restaurant Nuovo Vesuvio,
owned by Soprano’s childhood friend, Artie Bucco. Soprano played
by James Gandolfini, is having dinner with his wife, Carmella (Edie
Falco), when Bucco (John Ventimiglia) and his wife approach the
couple to catch up on family matters.

“Tone, you know who’s in tonight?” Bucco then asks Soprano.
“Mangenius.”

The camera pans to a table where Mangini, looking dapper in a
suit instead of his usual black Jets warmup top and shorts, and his
wife, Julie, are enjoying dinner.

“They had food out there, but we didn’t eat the food,” Mangini
said. “We just pretended we were.”

Soprano turns to his puzzled wife and says: “It’s the Jets
coach, sweetie. I should go say hello.”

Soprano and Bucco walk over to the table and are seen in the
back of the restaurant talking with Mangini.

“It took me a long time to get into character,” said Mangini,
who watched the episode Sunday night. “Playing me eating dinner is
a real stretch, but I worked with an acting coach and I think I
really nailed it.”

The Jets coach did not speak in the brief appearance on the hit
show that will air its series finale next Sunday. The show’s
casting group e-mailed the Jets a few months ago to see if Mangini
would be interested in appearing on the show.

“I was traveling at the time, and I thought it was somebody
playing a joke, but I researched it and they were doing the shoot
two days later,” said Mangini, who told just a few friends about
the appearance before it aired. “I called Julie up and we decided
to do it.”

Despite Sunday night’s particularly violent episode, Mangini
wasn’t afraid of getting whacked.

“I knew the context of what we were doing prior to getting into
it and felt very comfortable with being at the restaurant,” he
said with a laugh. “It’s not like Tony and I had any previous
affiliation or subsequent affiliation. It was more or less just
meeting another person at a restaurant who happened to be a fan of
the Jets.”

Mangini said Gandolfini and the rest of the cast made him and
his wife feel comfortable on the set, but he has no plans to move
from the gridiron to the small screen on a regular basis.

“I’ve always respected TV and the creative part of both TV and
film and it’s amazing what they’re able to do in both of those
areas,” he said. “But I’m very happy doing what I’m doing.”

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