Tom Coughlin is still an elite coach, he hasn’t come close to losing the locker room — in fact, his players adore him — and his owners revere him.
That being said, it’s time for a change.
Change doesn’t guarantee success. But neither does keeping things the same.
The Giants are in a rut, have been for four years now, their talent level is not playoff-caliber and a postseason shakeup appears inevitable.
It’s just time to give change a chance.
Instead of putting John Mara and Steve Tisch through the agony of firing him and instead of Coughlin suffering the indignity of being fired by the team he loves, he should make this easy on everybody and go out in a dignified way by retiring.