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Tom Coughlin's firing isn't a case of NFL millennials running roughshod over old-school tactics

When word spread Wednesday that Tom Coughlin was being fired as the vice president of football operations of the Jacksonville Jaguars, my ears and eyes perked up. Not just because Shad Khan, finally, held someone accountable in Jacksonville (by all means, don’t stop there Shad!) for the fastest, most inexplicable, premature fizzle out of a championship contender in years.

No. I was excited because I knew that the shade to come would be real. There would absolutely be some former Jaguars who couldn’t wait to take some subtweet-laden victory laps on social media.

I wasn’t disappointed.