and the fact that the Mara's have relationships with a lot of owners, and you can find tie backs almost everywhere.
But here's the thing - almost every team goes with that philosophy. Rarely is a person brought in with absolutely no ties to an organization.
The Giants have a tradition of making safer choices, but their ties to the organization often are not that strong or have to be explained through some convoluted reasoning.
Well, one problem that can be pointed out here, is Coughlin didn't do a great job at all at creating a coaching tree. For a successful head coach for a long time in the NFL, and 12 years with the Giants, he's hardly in the Bill Walsh/Bill Parcells class of a coaching tree.
The Giants recognized that by bringing in McAdoo because they didn't have any young coaches being brought along to potentially tab after Coughlin left, and even in the situation now.
The only names we've seen were Mike Sullivan (no thanks), and Matt Rhule, who did a really nice job at Temple only to take over the mess in Baylor and go 1-11. Even Spags really cut his teeth in Philly as a Jim Johnson assistant.
So the Giants will almost be forced to go outside their comfort zone to bring in a new coach. And I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing.
will be the guy. After all that happened this year Mara probably wants someone he knows, someone who won’t shake things up in the front office/scouting dept. I also think if John Fox gets fired, he’s the head coach. Change, but really “wholesale changes”.
Their "personality or aggressiveness". "Aggressive New Yorker" was code for "Jew". Times have changed but not all that much. The Midwest, including even Chicago is one with central and South in attitude to NYorkers.
the regime that got into trouble for benching a beloved vet we'd go and hire a guy who got fired for his ruthlessness in getting rid of popular vets in Carolina.
RE: seems to me he did a good job in Carolina, can't figure out why they Â
But he is 66, and this doesn't seem like a short term job. And there is the worry that if he's aold "Giants guy", ownership will again be able to meddle.
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Apparently he didn't get along with some of their veteran players, they didn't care for him.
The Giants could do worse than him, but he is 66 as you mentioned.
But here's the thing - almost every team goes with that philosophy. Rarely is a person brought in with absolutely no ties to an organization.
The Giants have a tradition of making safer choices, but their ties to the organization often are not that strong or have to be explained through some convoluted reasoning.
Well, one problem that can be pointed out here, is Coughlin didn't do a great job at all at creating a coaching tree. For a successful head coach for a long time in the NFL, and 12 years with the Giants, he's hardly in the Bill Walsh/Bill Parcells class of a coaching tree.
The Giants recognized that by bringing in McAdoo because they didn't have any young coaches being brought along to potentially tab after Coughlin left, and even in the situation now.
The only names we've seen were Mike Sullivan (no thanks), and Matt Rhule, who did a really nice job at Temple only to take over the mess in Baylor and go 1-11. Even Spags really cut his teeth in Philly as a Jim Johnson assistant.
So the Giants will almost be forced to go outside their comfort zone to bring in a new coach. And I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing.
So the Giants will almost be forced to go outside their comfort zone to bring in a new coach. And I don't think that's necessarily a bad thing.
I think this is exactly what this team needs.
To know him is to love him.. - ( New Window )
Gettleman may want to come home.
But he is 66, and this doesn't seem like a short term job. And there is the worry that if he's aold "Giants guy", ownership will again be able to meddle.
Apparently he didn't get along with some of their veteran players, they didn't care for him.
The Giants could do worse than him, but he is 66 as you mentioned.