Glauber has been Newsday's national football columnist since 1992. He was Newsday's football writer covering the Jets and
There is no in-between for Tom Coughlin.
Either he coaches his way out of a third straight 0-2 start and puts his team in realistic contention for a playoff spot. Or the Giants will be forced to look for another coach to take over next season. That's the cold, hard reality of life in the NFL, and Coughlin knows it.
He's staring down the barrel of a season with no playoffs for the fourth time in five years, and in a market as demanding as the one he works in, he understands that's not good enough.