The Coach in NFL Football…

This is an attempt to collect a debt.

As a fan, I do believe that ownership owes  a sincere committed effort to produce the best team possible. Incompetence and mediocrity should never be tolerated much less accepted.  Ownership should demand the best from every level of the organization.

A football team begins with the choice of “Coach”.

Every year teams change coaches. The criteria for the successor or “new” coach  is up to imagination often but the change is made because the incumbent staff is unsuccessful at winning.

The winning Coach must be a excellent communicator, a teacher, a confidant for the players and staff .He must also be confident in his ability to choose players and strategy successfully. Mediocre players can win with a skilled effective coach. Gifted players under the stewardship of skilled coaches create dynasties.

These are some  examples  of excellent  coaches.  They are  also available, now ,for the right salary.

Jimmy Johnson..former coach of Cowboys .Now TV analyst

Tony Dungy…….former coach of Colts..Now TV analyst

Bill Cowher………former coach of Steelers ..Now TV analyst..

These men  were winning coaches and all exhibited  the above mentioned skills necessary to bring the best from their player’s abilities. The skilled players  of the Giants were perhaps comparable to Jimmy’s Dallas winners but  now these new Giants have more gifted athletes.

Bill Belichick, Mike Shanahan, John Fox have never ever had the herd of gifted athletes that Coughlin has abused.

Tom Coughlin of the N.Y.Giants  is truly mediocre at best, considering his won-lost record. Yet, he is being considered for immortality? Maybe not ! Two Super Bowls in nine years  of roller coaster games with  a constant injury handicap. This is always followed with the exodus of great players that the league competes with each other to sign and replace their starters! He never takes the ownership of this constant disappointment. He blames players and assistants .Tom Coughlin is deft at eluding accountability.

Victor Cruz sat the season with the team having receiver shortages because of the Coach’s ill decisions.

David Wilson sits his rookie season because the coach plays a severely injured martyr. He actually  allowed the team to spend time and money on the runner scrap heap before he would support this gifted athlete drafted in the first round . Surely, a injury suit for  the Giants  will follow at the end of the veteran runner’s career.

Eli Manning’s guardian angel is exhausted.

Tom Coughlin is the only problem with the NY Giants. Why he is without criticism baffles me.  He needed Steve Spagnola’s  defense to save his season and then, with acts of God prevailing all over, defeated  the Patriots in 2008.

His defensive coordinators must rescue his pathetic offense decisions constantly .Special teams successes are thrown away with impunity because of the blunder choices that follow. Last year he stumbles through the season and his superior athletes rescue him again.

Now we must lose athletes and keep Tom Coughlin. That is the most expensive and demoralizing proposition  I can imagine.

He is obviously not retiring and his coaching skills are a myth. Certainly the neglect of premier draft choices and playing injured players are an infringement on the human resources . This has to be annoying and frustrating for the General Manager.

Media blurts and ownership quotes are all one gets about Tom Coughlin.  He is not Jerry Reese’s choice for coach now or ever rest assured. This must be addressed by ownership for progress to begin with winning consecutively.

The athletes on the Giants roster are extraordinary every year. They are the result of the superb draft and free agent successes of the personnel acquisition group headed by General Manager Jerry Reese.

When will the General manager of the NY Giants get the opportunity to choose his selection to Coach?