Former New York Giants head coach Tom Coughlin may not be employed by any NFL team at the moment, but that is just a temporary situation as he’s itching to get back into the fray.
Not that any NFL team is ringing him up these days, but if they did, the 73-year-old two-time Super Bowl winner would be more than ready to accept their offer.
“I love the game,” Coughlin said recently in a CBS Sports Radio interview. “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.”
After 12 years at the helm of the Giants, Coughlin had a career record of 170-150 as a head coach — 102-90 with Big Blue. After leaving the Giants, Tom worked for the NFL as an advisor to football operations before reuniting with the Jacksonville Jaguars as their EVP of operations.
Coughlin was let go by the Jaguars in December after the Jags lost a grievance by the NFLPA, which found them in violation of the CBA. Owner Shad Khan was going to relieve Coughlin from his post after the season but decided to act on December 18.
The last time Coughlin was without a team — or a job — was in 2003 after the Jaguars fired him and before the Giants signed him. He was seen at the NFL Combine that year sitting in the stands with his trusty stopwatch clocking the participants as if he were still running a franchise.
A reporter asked Coughlin why he was there because he had no team.
“I know,” he said. “But I will.”
This time around could be different. Coughlin’s ways are seen to be old school and his age is working against him, although that is discriminatory.
Could he return to the Giants in some advisory role? Maybe, but don’t count on it.
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