Coughlin promoted Manning to the starting quarterback job midway through the season, and the two went on to have great success together, although it wasn't always smooth and easy. Just to meet with him and talk football and X's and O's and strategy He is an example of how you should handle your job and love what you are doing. Coughlin came to New York with a reputation as a stern disciplinarian and famously proclaimed in his introductory news conference that injuries were "a mental thing" and something to be "corrected.
Coughlin's old-school methods chafed some of his players, most notably Hall of Famer Michael Strahan, who to this day says he doesn't understand why you need to be five minutes early to a meeting to be considered "on time. After going in his second season in New York, Coughlin went in and appeared in danger of losing his job. That run included a second-round playoff victory over the top-seeded Dallas Cowboys and an overtime victory in Green Bay in an NFC Championship Game that became famous for Coughlin's red, frozen face.
The following year, the Giants went and secured the No. The Giants lost their first playoff game that season and missed the playoffs in each of the next two seasons. Recent years have not ended as well for Coughlin. The Giants started in and, though they rallied in the second half, finished for Coughlin's first losing season since his debut in New York in The Giants followed that with a season that featured a seven-game losing streak and ended with a record.
This year, they were unable to take advantage of a weak NFC East, as late-season losses to Washington and the Jets knocked them out of the playoffs, and they finished Coughlin's final record as Giants head coach is , including playoff games. Including his time in Jacksonville and the playoff games he coached there , he is as an NFL head coach. His regular-season win total of ranks 12th in NFL history and, somewhat poetically, right behind Parcells' total of I respect his decision, and while I appreciate Tom's perspective and attitude, at the same time, I am a bit saddened today because we are losing a man who is just as good a person as he is a coach.
In doing so, however, Coughlin has removed himself from the conversation with average Giants coaches like Jim Fassel and Dan Reeves and into the very same sentence as the most revered head coach in New York Giants history—Bill Parcells. Like Parcells, Coughlin has managed to overcome all of the adversity—as well as hate from the media and fans alike—and bring home two Super Bowl championships for the New York Giants.
Boston may have deemed itself Titletown, but there might be no area in sports that demands a championship above everything else more than the New York area. Coughlin traveled to his hometown of Waterloo in upstate New York for the funeral three days later.
The following day, backup quarterback Jeff Hostetler and recently-signed kicker Matt Bahr led the Giants back from a 9-point fourth-quarter deficit and a last-second triumph over the Phoenix Cardinals. On Nov. The school immediately targeted Coughlin to replace him. I sat with him for 45 minutes and went back and he offered the job to me and I said no. You have a chance to be a head coach.
What are you going to do? Tom and Patrick in addition are the uncles of Natalie Coughlin, the multi-award winning Olympic medalist. While attending Waterloo, he gained the school's single season touchdown record-which still stands at In Coughlin's senior year. In , he set the school's single-season pass receiving record. His first head coaching job was at the Rochester Institute of Technology from — After his success there, he returned to his alma mater where he was eventually promoted to offensive coordinator, a position he also held at Boston College where he coached Doug Flutie.
After the season, Coughlin returned to Boston College to take on his first job as a head coach. In three seasons at BC, he turned the program into a consistent winner.
Coughlin's tenure was capped with a victory over 1 ranked Notre Dame in In eight seasons at Jacksonville, he helmed the most successful expansion team in league history. Coughlin would again take the Jaguars to the AFC Championship Game in after achieving a league-high regular season record.
However, in both appearances in the championship game, the Jaguars were defeated; in by the New England Patriots, and in , by the Tennessee Titans. Coughlin's Jaguars won 49 regular season games in his first five years as head coach; a remarkable average for an expansion team of nearly ten wins per year. But the Jaguars's record for the next three years was only 19—29, and after a 6—10 finish in , Coughlin was fired.
He finished his eight-year career in Jacksonville with a 68—60 regular season record and a 4—4 playoff record. After being out of football in , Coughlin was named the 16th head coach of the New York Giants on January 6, Coughlin inherited a team that finished 4—12 in , but led the Giants to a surprising 5—2 start in his first season as head coach.
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