It’s been a while since the New York Giants parted with Tom Coughlin as their head coach. Still, many think that the team made the wrong choice – and of course, Coughlin’s replacements didn’t pan out with both Ben McAdoo and Pat Shurmur failing to improve the team and even regressing heavily since Coughlin was replaced. Coughlin, meanwhile, had moved on to the executive ranks and was a member of the Jaguars front office.
Coughlin helped lead the Jaguars to an AFC Championship Game, but after their loss in it and poor seasons the following years, he was fired and is now in the market of looking for work again. He spoke about the subject in a CBS Sports interview, where he also addressed the struggles in the years after the Jaguars appeared in the AFC Championship.
“Well, I love the game. I love the people involved in the game, and to continue to be involved in some capacity would be a very good thing for me. I need to be active, I need to be busy, I want to be busy. The routine is very good for me. It’s been that way for a lot of years, and we’ll just see what prevails,” Coughlin told The Zach Gelb Show.
On the struggles, he named a couple of problems including Blake Bortles, the Jaguars’ high draft pick who, despite the AFC Championship appearance, didn’t pan out in the long run.
“Obviously there’s no excuses, but injuries take their play. Blake Bortles had some issues in 2018, and then after that, obviously we got into the new quarterback situation and so on and so forth.”
It seems like Coughlin is looking to remain an executive, and the Giants are currently reworking their coaching staff – these sweeping changes haven’t hit the front office yet, but could they potentially bring back legendary head coach Coughlin as an executive of some sorts this time?
It’s something of a stretch, but it would go some ways towards making up for the poor way the Giants organization handled the end of Coughlin’s career and could provide the current front office with advice from someone that was around the last time the Giants were a winning team. Will it happen? The next weeks of the offseason will hold the answer to that.