Since this moment, we have had 6 head coaches and 0 stability.
Remember when we thought going 6-10 was rock bottom? I would kill for a nice, stable 6-10 right now.

We didn't realize it at the time, but this wasn't just a snub. It was a hex.
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  1. Him and Eli should have stayed together until they both retired, then Kevin Reese could have either had a reload or move on to another team as well, and then there would have been a clean break.

    Instead, we had a messy break up that finally was cleared once Saquon left last year.

    Such a shame, and so much wasted time.

  2. Man ain’t that the truth. That right there is a man of integrity refusing to shake the hand of a man who has little.

    Imagine having to work for a nepo baby boss who doesn’t know how to run the business, and you’re struggling the entire time to succeed despite their poor management, even winning two big deals during your time there. That’s what TC had to endure, then got fired.

    It was TC’s time to retire but he should have been handled in such a way that he would be a part of the org’s future.

  3. The older this video gets, the more i respect coughlin.

    He wasn’t the person you typically look at and say what a man… but you come to realise it over time.

    Put him in the HOF already!!

  4. It was an emotional Coughlin not seeing Mara because he didn’t want to break down in tears.

    I do think this is the start of the current problems. Coughlin’s record since Super Bowl XLVI wasn’t good, but he hadn’t forgotten how to coach. He was let down badly by talent, and with a halfway decent defense he could have posted a very good record in 2015. The right move was either keep him or clean everyone out, but Mara and Tisch fired only Coughlin while keeping everybody else. 2016 turned out well because Reese spent big on defense, but McAdoo did not have what it took to create a winning culture so it wasn’t sustainable.

  6. If I was a GM candidate I would require that Mara fix this situation while he still can before I took the job. Reconciliation is always possible but the parties must be around to do it. Coughlin deserves all the respect and admiration that Parcells gets.

  7. Let’s remove the rose colored glasses for a sec. Many people here were likely calling for change in those latter years of his tenure bc of stagnation and communication issues. However, he did speak truth to power and the issue with giants is that the Power are nepo never-beens so it was a good era.

  8. This comes up every few weeks. The last 3 years of coughlin were a disaster. Bad oline, poor red zone offense, blown games late. Sound familiar?

    All of the giants issues started 3 years before this moment. Some of it was Jerry Reece, but Coughlin had a terrible 3 year stretch. Made perfect sense to move on. The big mistake was not moving on from Reece at the same time.

  10. The giants ownership fked both Coughlin and Eli. As much as I love the giants, I kinda hope we suck so much they sell the team

  11. It’s so insanely brazen and disrespectful to your now former boss/team owner, I fucking love it.

    I’m completely beyond the point of giving Mara any slack because “he really cares about the team he just doesn’t know how to handle it”. You’re 71 damn years old, if you don’t know by now, you never will.

  14. Mara is quietly the worst owner in the league when it comes to actually running a team. He cares a lot, which puts him over some owners who simply don’t care, but his decisionmaking is the main reason why this franchise is a joke.

  16. I was home sick from work that day so I was able to watch it live

    I still remember thinking to myself how TC was being completely scapegoated by the FO and for them to treat a head coach who did what he did for them was appalling.

    So yeah, the franchise is still eating its bad karma

  18. It was time for Coughlin to go. A lot of you forget the ugly losses and collapses he has on his resume. The real problem was not getting rid of Reese at the same time.

  19. This was disgusting. Shame on this organization for the way they treated Coughlin. Mara really fired Coughlin and allowed Reese to keep his job. Then Reese was allowed to stay on for another two seasons. We have been cursed ever since.

  22. We deserve all of it for how this organization treated Coach Coughlin. It’s been an absolute dumpster fire since he left.

  25. Coughlin is a Giants legend. He was treated like shit his last year. I was a fan who wanted change, I regret that decision because Coughlin has more blue and red in his piss than I do in my veins. Our ownership started to tank when it became more of Maras team than 50/50 with Tisch. 

  26. https://preview.redd.it/eej7xvtg0e6g1.png?width=750&format=png&auto=webp&s=f5280c1ace2735d1836ebba515d5c50036384d04

    [https://nypost.com/2016/01/05/what-was-with-tom-coughlin-walking-right-by-john-mara/](https://nypost.com/2016/01/05/what-was-with-tom-coughlin-walking-right-by-john-mara/)

    >[https://twitter.com/SNFaizalKhamisa/status/684403239127744512](https://twitter.com/SNFaizalKhamisa/status/684403239127744512)

    >It sure looked like a snub.

    >But it wasn’t.

    >Giants co-owner John Mara stood up as Tom Coughlin, following his remarks during Tuesday’s [remarkable, franchise-changing Giants press conference](https://nypost.com/2016/01/05/tom-coughlin-departs-with-thanks-and-a-new-job-offer/), pushed away from behind the lectern and walked briskly down three steps in the auditorium at the team facility. Mara looked as if he expected to exchange a handshake or greeting with his former head coach, but Coughlin kept right on walking.

    >Festering bad blood after Coughlin resigned before Mara and Steve Tisch could fire him a day earlier?

    >“Not even a little bit,’’ said Pat Hanlon, the Giants’ senior vice president of communications. “It was a guy who was oblivious, who had one thing on his mind … get the hell out of there.’’

    >Hard feelings? Hardly. Afterward, Mara went into the office of the head coach and hugged Coughlin and his wife, Judy.

  27. Idk if I agree that I prefer 6-10 stability, it nearly feels worse than being a laughing stock, at least you don’t have useless hope.

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