Penultimate Preseason Game

This is it, the second-to-last preseason game -- the Penultimate preseason game (don't you just love that there's a word that means second-to-last?).

Tonight, the Browns will host the Tennessee Titans at Cleveland Browns Stadium and we'll get a longer glimpse of the first strings.

Of course, don't expect to see either Brady Quinn or Derek Anderson taking all the snaps with the first unit for two-plus quarters tonight. No, Mangini plans to make sure both QB's time is "broken up equally, as much as we can."

Sure, one of them will actually start the "game," but Mangini has warned everyone not to read anything into it. He's tight-lipped 'til the end, this guy. Different than Romeo, who never really said anything because he didn't have anything to say. Mangini definitely has something to say, he simply chooses not to say anything because he doesn't have to.

I mean, really, it's not anyone's business outside the Browns organization to know who the starting QB is going to be. As long as Mangini knows -- and I'm willing to bet he does -- then I'm OK with it.

This, of course, is also an obvious difference from Romeo, who either didn't really know who to start (Frye, Anderson or Quinn) or clearly choose to start the wrong guy (Anderson) without even looking at the other guy (Quinn).

It's almost refreshing to have a head coach so focused on his team, and not what the media thinks. Mangini is so team-oriented, he's reconfigured the locker room so that the players are almost forced to get to know one another.

Mangini's Browns are all about the team, and what's best for the team. I like it.

I'm not going to sit here and lie and tell you I was a Mangini fan from Day 1. No, I was pretty upset when they seemed to hire him willy-nilly. But, Mangini has definitely won me over ... for now. He won't have completely won me over until the games start to count.

The games don't officially start counting until September 13, when Brett Favre and the Minnesota Vikings (weird to type that) come to town. Until then, consider tonight's "game" a dress rehearsal for two-plus quarters.

Go Browns!

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