Soon after the Jacksonville Jaguars beat the Buffalo Bills on Sunday for the team’s first playoff victory in a decade, the players and coaches streamed into their locker room to celebrate.
As they whooped it up, one key member of the team’s transformation from perennial loser to division champion and postseason contender was savoring the moment in a more subdued way. Tom Coughlin, the first coach of the Jaguars, way back in 1994, and the winner of two Super Bowls with the Giants, was in a small room nearby.
Coughlin, now Jacksonville’s head of football operations, tried to keep the focus on the players and on winning.