The best coaching staffs knit together so neatly there are no seams showing. The best staffs are a smooth swatch, a blend of personalities where intellect and intensity come at the players from different directions, where age, youth, varied degrees of experience and diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds mesh together for blanket coverage to all who enter the locker room.
Pat Shurmur is putting the finishing touches on his first Giants coaching staff. He needs an offensive coordinator and a quarterbacks coach. Here is a suggestion: Name Duce Staley the offensive coordinator. It will weaken the Super Bowl champion Eagles and, more importantly, provide a perfect yin and yang, adding some fire to Shurmur’s ice, injecting some street cred into not only the offensive meeting room, but Shurmur’s entire operation.