Landon Collins is no longer a member of the New York Giants. So it might seem strange to see Collins still making headlines related to the team. However, when a former player makes comments about their old organization and coaching staff, it sometimes becomes a story. Especially when said former player has moved to a division rival and will face the Giants two times per year in division play.
In this case, Collins isn’t talking about someone from the current Giants’ organization, but a legend of the franchise that many fans will still defend to this day. Most Giants fans didn’t hold ill will against Landon Collins after the Giants let him walk and he signed a massive contract with the Washington Redskins, but one way to get rid of that remaining goodwill is to trash talk Tom Coughlin.
But that’s exactly what Collins decided to do while attempting to recruit star cornerback Jalen Ramsey to his new team.
@jalenramsey if you don’t want to be on a team where your VP…. is all in the media, all in your mentions, talking about voluntary workouts and questioning your work ethic…then come to the Redskins (Suge Knight voice) #HTTR (24 + 23 + 45 + 20 = ????)
— LANDON COLLINS (@TheHumble_21) April 19, 2019
The tweet from Collins references the Jaguars’ Vice President, who of course, is Coughlin. It is normal, of course, for a player to try to recruit others to his team, but name dropping Coughlin in the tweet might just rub Collins’ old team the wrong way.
Coughlin and Collins have about a year’s worth of history together, with Coughlin serving as the head coach of the team during the 2015 season when Collins was drafted. That turned out to be the season immediately before Coughlin was replaced by the far less successful Ben McAdoo. There’s still a number of fans that wish the Giants could have given Coughlin more time, after the poor performances of his successors up until this point.
Of course, Coughlin isn’t with the Giants anymore and neither is Collins, but it’s an interesting ‘feud’ to see play out regardless. If anything, it indicates that Collins isn’t afraid of taking on a heel role in the eyes of his former fans with the Giants, who will likely disagree with his take.