Tom Coughlin was coaching himself right out of town, making a tough job much tougher, when he made the necessary tweaks in his draconian management style to help the New York Giants win two Super Bowls ... and the New York Yankees win a World Series. We'll explain a bit later.
But first, his approach to running a football team. The first day I met Thomas Richard Coughlin at his office at Boston College in the fall of 1992, he pointed toward a desk and said, "I can pull stuff out of drawers and tell you what I'm doing every minute of every day for a whole calendar year.