Head Coach/GM Carousel

Possible 10 vacancies this year. I am glad we are not on the carousel this year

 

Payton, Pagano and Couglin would all have been better for us than Bowles is , IMO. But obviously none of them are available right now.

If in the very slight chance that Harbaugh is canned from Baltimore , I would hope Woody fires Bowles.

 

Coughlin just announced that he is stepping down.

 

Coughlin done in New York!

Eli likely to follow with new coaching staff

 

Giants would be very dumb to keep Jerry Reese as GM. I hope they do.

Interesting that Coughlin resigned instead of retired. Makes me think he wants to keep coaching.

He's probably getting offers already.

Some dummies out there think his age will keep teams from hiring him, like that has ever been a case with any older coach before, nevermind one with 2 Super Bowl's on his resume.

 

Pagano will be a hot ticket...I could see him in New York or another playoff fringe team

 

lots of teams need coaches, and i'm not too excited about the list of potential candidates.
taking a shot on a new coach like Gase or Austin might be best bet.

glad we are not looking.

 

Figured they would let Coughlin leave gracefully. It was time. He will have one of the stranger HOF resumes ever. Going by the regular season, he is basically a .500 coach. But he has had some serious playoff magic that will get him enshrined. So he's really a slightly above average coach for 95% of his career, but a great coach in the most important 5%.

 

it's not even close to a HOF resume.
with a good QB and a shit division, he missed the playoffs 6 out of the last 7 years.
it would be 7 straight if the division wasn't so bad.

extremely overrated.
i was actually hoping they wouldn't fire him, as i'm confident the losing seasons would continue, and the team would quit on him yet again.

 

hoping the Giants promote McAdoo, or hire a chump like McDaniels.

really hope they don't get Sean Payton, their old scapegoat, back though.
that would be a major upgrade for them.

 

He is without a doubt going to the HOF as a coach.

2 Superbowls with the Giants
2 AFC Championship games with the expansion Jaguars, with 4 straight playoffs starting in year 2

 

Same could be said about Eli.

But NY team , 2 Super Bowl wins and Eli's last name..will eventually get them both in the H.O.F

Id put Coughlin in the Hall way before Eli though.

 

For a coach it is a HOF resume, because very few coaches in NFL history can claim 2 SB victories. Plus he did some nice work with the expansion Jags, that is arguably more impressive than his coaching tenure with the Giants. I agree though that his HOF case is probably not as solid as the typical coach with 2 SB victories, because he had so many consecutive non-playoff seasons.

 

I would draw the line at Eli. No way should he be HOF. He is merely an above average QB in an era of great QB play. At no point in his career has he ever been a top 5 QB, and actually it would be a rare season in which you would have ever ranked him higher than 8 or 9. However, as you point out, he is the greatest QB in franchise history for a flagship franchise in a huge market, has the "Manning" pedigree, and was the benefactor of a dominant D during the SB runs. Eli could be the classic case of the QB getting all the credit for what were true team victories. True story: Eli never won a playoff game where the other team scored over 20 points. And during those playoff runs, his team consistently played historically great offenses, only the Giants D made them not so historically great.

 

Is Jim Schwartz a hot coaching candidate? He was awful in Detroit. I could only picture Cleveland hiring him. LOL

 

maybe, but i am glad we don't have to compete with 9 other teams for maybe 3 good candidates