...so, I usually give our head coach a pass on tons of stuff BBIers usually criticize him for, sometimes quite harshly.
But here the Giants were in their home opener against a conference team after being thoroughly humiliated the prior game (not to mention the year-long humiliation of last season)...
...and you woulda thunk it was the Head Coach's job to get this team fired up and on the field ready to eat glass.
And then the Cards come out with a back up QB and for the entire 1st quarter kick our ass.
That's gotta reflect on the Head Coach in some way.
Amen
The giants have been one of the dumbest teams in the nfl. Mistake prone year after year. That's the problem today. That was the problem last year.
The giants have been one of the dumbest teams in the nfl. Mistake prone year after year. That's the problem today. That was the problem last year.
And they continue to do it year after year with different players.
To many soft coverages and to much zone.
RetroJint : 8:06 pm : link : reply
players miss assignments, commit penalties & fail to win their one-on-one match-ups. That's why they are poor players. Parcells was 3-12-1 & 6-9 with poor players.
You pick Parcell's first season as head coach and a strike year?
By my count now, every loss since 2001 has been blamed by at least one guy here on "being flat".
not surprisingly, this week it is M.S. who specializes in the most basic (and shallow) of analysis week after week.
He's JerseyJoe without fibromyalgia and the arrogance.
Like I said earlier, I don't blame Coughlin. I just think the message is not getting through as effectively. I see it with teachers all the time. They do the same prep, teach the same material--but all of sudden they just go from being great teachers that everybody loves to being boring old guys that none of the students want to take.
I think Coughlin lost the veteran leadership on this team and that has hurt his ability to teach these newer, younger players. Maybe things will get better as the season goes on. But the first two games, this team has not played Tom Coughlin football. And its not the coordinators alone who are responsible because the miscues have been in all three phases of the game: offense, defense and ST. That points to the HC.
Coughlin has proved his detractors wrong before, let's hope he can do it again. But I wouldn't count on it.
If they're not gone, who's fault is it?
After watching the Eagle game last night it looks to be a huge mismatch. Our DC against the Chip Kelly run offense.
If you think that was the only message TC gave the team to fire them up, then you don't know TC.