The Fifth Down Blog: Coughlin, Alone, Takes Heat for the Defense
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Giants Coach Tom Coughlin -- without the aid of his coordinators or defensive team captains -- was peppered with pointed questions Monday about his team which has allowed 80 points in the first two games.
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Giants Coach Tom Coughlin never seems to run out of bunks in his doghouse. A player who arrives late for a meeting, or skips it altogether, can be plunged into
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How strange it was to see Tom Coughlin, the coach who almost got dumped by the New York Giants, getting a bucket of Gatorade dumped on his head at the Super Bowl.
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Tom Coughlin turned himself into another poster coach for communication, even compassion, and finally a Super Bowl champion.
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I said on our pregame show that Jacksonville was no slouch. I knew they would play Indianapolis tough and they surely did. What you have to understand everybody is that this league is about great defenses.
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As dull as the Giants were in losses to the Bears and the Jaguars, their loss to the Titans was much worse. How will Tom Coughlin pull his team back together?
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Chad Pennington put yesterday&#39;s 17-6 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers squarely on his own shoulders, but he is certainly not the only one to blame, as the Jets
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Dad Bobby goes to 5-1 vs. Tommy as sub QB guides Seminoles after Rix is hurt in first quarter. BY JOSH ROBBINS. TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Defense, the adage goes, wins championships.
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One more loss and the Giants would set a franchise record with 10 straight. One more fine by Tom Coughlin before he even picked up his first victory and the Giants would be on the verge of revolt.
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Coach Tom Coughlin used the word âencouragedâ about half a dozen times referring to the status of quarterback Eli Manning and defensive end Osi Umenyiora on Wednesday.
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CINCINNATI -- When the outside world looked at yesterday's matchup at Paul Brown Stadium, it saw a battered defense that was missing half its secondary facing an elite quarterback and the fourth-highest-scoring offense in pro football. The world looked at this and saw a disaster about to happen. The Patriots looked at it and saw opportunity.
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We will know that Eli Manning has met the big-boy challenge when teammates do not have to defend him so vigorously in the locker room.
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his third of the week dominated by Eli-mania - someone at last asked Tom Coughlin about a matter largely lost in the hysteria: the standings.
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One thing about the up-and-down world of the NFL: You can't shy away from teams coming off bad performances, because that would leave you with no one to pick.
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Tom Coughlin has one regret about Tiki Barber: that he couldn't convince the New York Giants running back to keep his opinions out of the public spotlight.
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Tom Coughlin's first season with the New York Giants might be very similar to his start with the expansion Jacksonville Jaguars.
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After SundayÂs collapse against the Titans, few Giants escaped criticism from Tom Coughlin. But the coach has been oddly quiet about receiver Plaxico Burress, who has seemed to come up short on several key plays this season.