The New York Giants officially announced the hires of defensive coordinator/assistant head coach Patrick Graham, offensive coordinator Jason Garrett and special teams coordinator Thomas McGaughey on Friday night, but said announcement came with an interesting quote courtesy of head coach Joe Judge.
While praising McGaughey and explaining why it was so important to keep a guy like him around, Judge appeared to imply that assistant special teams coordinator Tom Quinn will also remain in place.
“I’ve known T-Mac from going against him as well as being in the business and I have a good relationship with him professionally and personally,” Judge said, via team release. “I have a lot of respect for him as a coach and I have a tremendous amount of respect for him as a person. He gets the most out of his players. I’ve competed against him and I knew it was always going to be tough sledding in the game there.
“From the perspective of having to go against him, you understand you don’t want to get him out of the building; you want to hold onto guys like that. They’re definitely key assets. He and Tom Quinn do an outstanding job of working together, coaching the players in techniques and coming up with schemes for game plans that allow them to apply pressure on the opponents.”
Quinn originally joined the Giants in 2006 as an assistant to special teams coordinator Mike Sweatman and was promoted to special teams coordinator in 2007, where Thomas McGaughey ironically served under him until 2010.
Quinn remained in place until 2017 when the Giants re-hired McGaughey as the coordinator, but his departure was extremely short-lived. Due to some health-related concerns McGaughey was dealing with, the Giants re-hired Quinn as his assistant just five months later.
It’s been a strange journey for Quinn, but somehow, he’s managed to survive for nearly 15 years. And by all accounts, that will continue into 2020.
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