Kansas City, Mo. ? All week the Browns heard how Mike Holmgren coming to Cleveland might mean the end of coach Eric Mangini’s short, drama-filled stint with the team.

Jerome Harrison and Joshua Cribbs may have saved their coach’s job, at least for now, trying to outdo each other with record-setting games.

Harrison scored his third touchdown with 44 seconds left and rushed for a team-record 286 yards, and Cribbs returned two kickoffs for touchdowns to lift the Browns to a 41-34 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday.

“For the past two, three weeks, Josh and I have had a personal (competition) against each other,” Harrison said. “He set the tempo and set it pretty high, but I told him at halftime, ‘I’m going to get you.”‘

Cribbs started the Browns (3-11) off with kickoff returns of 100 and 103 yards, breaking the NFL career record and tying the single-game mark.

Harrison still got the better of him.

Running behind linebacker-busting fullback Lawrence Vickers, he scored all of his touchdowns in the second half to break Jim Brown’s team record of 237 yards, set in 1957 and 1961.