Dec 31
Giants coach Tom Coughlin said he hasn’t spoken to John Mara about his future, but that talk is surely coming very soon. Because according to a team source there have already been several high-level discussions in the Giants’ front office about Coughlin’s future this week, Ralph Vacchiano of the New York Daily News reports.
And pressure is building for Mara to make the coaching change he never wanted to make.
It’s not known yet if a final decision has been made, but there are several people in the Giants’ front office who believe a change is necessary, according to a team source, and it is believed that co-owner Steve Tisch favors a change, too. Most people inside the organization believe Mara will eventually agree, if he hasn’t already.
Coughlin, though, made it clear that he had no interest in discussing that end, or in learning his fate before the Giants’ season finale. His focus, he said, was only on beating the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday.
“Basically, I said (to the players), ‘Don’t worry about me or my situation,’” Coughlin said. “‘Let’s prepare ourselves to play an outstanding football game and try to win a game against the Philadelphia Eagle team.’ Hopefully, when you ask those questions, they will say, ‘We are focusing on preparing for the Philadelphia Eagles’ and leave it at that.”
Some of them did, but over the last few days, as the firing of the 69-year-old Coughlin has seemed to grow inevitable, many of his players have spoken out in defense of their coach. Coughlin told them “it’s not fair” that they feel the need to stick up for him. He added, “I appreciate the sentiments, but that’s not where I want them focused this week.”
Giants coach Tom Coughlin said he hasn’t spoken to John Mara about his future, but that talk is surely coming very soon. Because according to a team source there have already been several high-level discussions in the Giants’ front office about Coughlin’s future this week, Ralph Vacchiano of the New York Daily News reports.
And pressure is building for Mara to make the coaching change he never wanted to make.
It’s not known yet if a final decision has been made, but there are several people in the Giants’ front office who believe a change is necessary, according to a team source, and it is believed that co-owner Steve Tisch favors a change, too. Most people inside the organization believe Mara will eventually agree, if he hasn’t already.
Coughlin, though, made it clear that he had no interest in discussing that end, or in learning his fate before the Giants’ season finale. His focus, he said, was only on beating the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday.
“Basically, I said (to the players), ‘Don’t worry about me or my situation,’” Coughlin said. “‘Let’s prepare ourselves to play an outstanding football game and try to win a game against the Philadelphia Eagle team.’ Hopefully, when you ask those questions, they will say, ‘We are focusing on preparing for the Philadelphia Eagles’ and leave it at that.”
Some of them did, but over the last few days, as the firing of the 69-year-old Coughlin has seemed to grow inevitable, many of his players have spoken out in defense of their coach. Coughlin told them “it’s not fair” that they feel the need to stick up for him. He added, “I appreciate the sentiments, but that’s not where I want them focused this week.”
