Tom Coughlin has some advice for the 2021 Giants.
"It’s 17 games," he said. "It’s a long season. Hang in there."
The two-time Super Bowl winning coach of the Giants knows all about that. In fact, he was reminded of it quite a bit on Friday night when he hosted the 17th annual Tom Coughlin Jay Fund Champions for Children Gala in Manhatttan, an event that this year honored the 2011 team that won it all.
Coughlin said the word that came to mind as he saw the faces of the players and coaches who brought home that championship — some of them for the first time in 10 years — was "perseverance.