{"id":742368,"date":"2026-02-10T12:07:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T12:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/742368\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T12:07:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T12:07:13","slug":"former-new-york-giants-head-coach-ray-handley-dead-at-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/742368\/","title":{"rendered":"Former New York Giants head coach Ray Handley dead at 81"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feb. 10, 2026, 6:04 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Ray Handley, a two-time Super Bowl winner as an assistant on Bill Parcells&#8217; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/new-york-giants\/351\" data-autotag=\"9402befb-12da-4b26-905a-81ab1fea0850\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">New York Giants<\/a> teams of the 1980s and 90s, has passed away at age 81.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The news was broken on Handley&#8217;s nephew&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/rob-handley-2512698a_competitiveness-toughness-halloffame-activity-7425209768446689280-z8pC\/?fbclid=IwY2xjawP1iPhleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFvT3ZBWTJybEdvdGt1U3dVc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHrBN0-JBt9-gVet0iljkgNnZUbZF5JgEPA-1ognaIqxQ5gx0PtO15FgCBS_w_aem_rdpVpRLFcv2rUEs8T2S73g\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">LinkedIn page<\/a>, stating his uncle passed away on February 5.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Handley was Parcells&#8217; running back coach from 1984 through 1990 and won two Super Bowls. He coached such players as Rob Carpenter, Joe Morris, Ottis Anderson, Maurice Carthon, and Rodney Hampton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">When Parcells parted ways with the Giants after the team won Super Bowl XXV in 1991, Handley was chosen to succeed the future Hall of Fame coach in a controversial move. Many thought defensive coordinator Bill Belichick would get the nod.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The Giants went 14-18 in Handley&#8217;s two seasons at the helm and failed to qualify for the postseason during those years.<\/p>\n<p>Expert NFL picks: <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (nfl)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/picks\">Exclusive betting insights only at USA TODAY.<\/a><img class=\"gnt_em_cp_cw_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1770725233_489_86373428007-square-1.jpg\" data-gl- decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Feb. 10, 2026, 6:04 a.m. ET Ray Handley, a two-time Super Bowl winner as an assistant on Bill&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":742369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[95878,7,519,1917,56,2321,2469,6,96069,96070,95882,98583,95896,95891,95888,95895,95897,95899,96071,95884,95883,95881],"class_list":{"0":"post-742368","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-giants","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-giants","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-giants","13":"tag-newyork","14":"tag-newyorkgiants","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-sstssportsnflgiants","17":"tag-sstsngiants","18":"tag-tagamerican-football","19":"tag-tagdeath-tragedy","20":"tag-tagnational-sports","21":"tag-tagnew-york-giants","22":"tag-tagnfl","23":"tag-tagnfl-hub","24":"tag-tagoverall-negative","25":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","26":"tag-tagsmg-timely","27":"tag-tagsports-coaching-training","28":"tag-tagsports-news","29":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116046257530515071","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=742368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/742368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/742369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=742368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=742368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=742368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}