NY Post · Jan 4, 2016
Tom Coughlin stopped being a tyrant and taught us greatness
Sports
Tom CoughlinThere are two different, distinct images of Tom Coughlin that both illustrate and explain so much about what he accomplished in 12 years as head coach of the Giants. It isn’t so much the disparity of the moments – one the nadir of his time here, one as he was approaching his greatest apex – as it is the fundamental change they represent.
Coughlin was a great coach here, in many ways the perfect coach for a time in Giants history when the franchise badly needed strength in character in that job. But what made him a Hall of Fame coach was an ability – a willingness – to roll with the times that has been a trap door that sabotaged so many other bright minds.
