June 6th, 2012 
Jeremy Fuchs 
Posted in Tom Coughlin has signed a two year contract extension, making him coach through 2014.
”It is an honor and a privilege to be the head coach of the New York Giants,” Coughlin said Wednesday.
”Tom is a winner and he’s a fighter,” general manager Jerry Reese said. ”And I enjoy and appreciate working with him. From where I sit, I couldn’t ask for more in a head coach.”
Coughlin has 2 Super Bowl victories in 8 seasons as coach. He’s been criticized, but I think he’s proven to be the right coach for New York. Congrats to Coughlin.
Two years??!!!
I guess I should look at it as a three year extension. But I thought we would give him the kind of deal that lets him be the coach as long as he wants.
The winning formula in the playoffs seems to come down to the team who can get to the quarterback. If you have a pass rush and just never let up, you have a chance to win. Get in the playoffs it’s doesn’t matter how, that’s the key, than unleash the hounds.
Coughlin and Reese figured this out and it gave them 2 super bowls. It is the winning formula that other teams are trying to copy. They don’t have a Strahan, Osi, Tuck, Kiwi and now JPP though. They keep trying to draft those types but cannot find them. That’s why it was important to sign Osi.
I do give Coughlin credit for holding this team together every year through the adversity they always seem to have. He seems to know what it needs, any other coach would not have made it under the scurtiny of the New York media, they would have folded.
In 2013 I bet Reese will be looking for another DE pass rusher in the early rounds. In fact the guy they probably wanted was not Wilson but the player the Pats drafted in the first round, Chandler Jones.
The second most important thing is a QB who when it comes time to make a play does, Eli is that QB. This formula also worked for Belichick and the Pats in the past. He still has the QB but not the pass rush they once did and it has hurt them. I think Belichick figured that out and drafted a few guys who can get to the QB this year, the year before none. Greenbay knows it too and so does some other teams now. Franchise QBs and pass rushers are at a premium for a reason.
The Giants will have a chance at a super bowl as long as they can rush the passer and have Eli at the helm. If it weren’t for the shot we might have had 3 superb bowls. We had the catch and we also had the shot..LOL..if we didn’t lose Plax we were going to win another one and everybody knew it.
Reese reloaded this team and it looks better than last season. Again the key is getting into the playoffs. Hopefully by that time the offensive line whomever they are will become a cohesive unit, we might have to sweat it out until they do. 10-6 wins the East and we power through the playoffs to meet, guess who again.
As long as the 49ers have Smith at QB they lack the key ingredient after the defense, a QB, Smith is not the man. I’m not worried about a team filled with Giants’ castoffs and Randy Moss. If we get past Greenbay I think we’re in again.
As a disclaimer, let’s get this out of the way : 2 SB in 8 years is awesome.
Yet … we lack consistency, we don’t play well in the regular season most of the time and we barely make it to the playoffs when we do.
Yes, I know, what matters are rings. But making it to the playoffs greatly improves the odds of that happening, right ?
This year, even if it hurts, we’re only one Romo brain fart away from being 8-8 (or worse as I think we would not have finished the season so strongly).
And let’s get real, Coughlin nor Reese had nothing to do with Romo missing his receiver.
One week after that, we were engaged in some poor football exhibition with our roomates at PSL Stadium. Who bailed us out on a play that turned our season around ?
Cruz, a guy the staff admitted they didn’t know what they had.
So yes they deserve credit for stuff (keeping Cruz on board even if they weren’t sure, bringing in the vets to motivate the players, which was huge …).
But let’s not make Reese and Coughlin HoFers just yet.
It turned out awesome for the New York Football Giants in 2011. But we have got to be better and make sure we get into the playoffs.
Basically we can not expect the other teams to bail us out when we screw up to get into postseason.
Or we can keep winning a SB every 5 years with poor seasons in the middle, I could live with that too ^^