Tom Coughlin Resigns After 12 Seasons as NY Giants Head Coach

After 12 years as the team’s head coach, Coughlin resigned Monday, leaving the organization with a big void to fill.

Coughlin’s time with the franchise was widely expected to come to an end in the close season, and the belief intensified when he invited his entire family onto the pitch before the Giants’ 35-30 home loss at the hands of the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday.

Stemming from Bill Parcells’ coaching tree, the former Giants assistants went on to their own distinguished careers as head coaches in the National Football League and will always be intertwined for their classic Super Bowl matchups.

Since winning his last championship in 2011, Coughlin’s teams have slipped, however, largely due to injuries and high draft picks that did not pan out. The Giants finished at 6-10, and Reese said the team is not too far away from contending for another title despite posting losing records the past three seasons.

Coughlin issued a statement via the Giants website after he stepped down. They won the division the following season and shocked the football world by knocking off the then-undefeated Patriots in the Super Bowl in February 2008.

Mara had said near the beginning of his press conference that Coughlin’s decision to leave as coach was “as much mutual as anything else”.

Coughlin’s future was the main topic as players cleaned out their locker at the Giants’ headquarters on Monday.

The search is on for the New York Giants’ next head coach, with the team wasting little time in getting the process started. Coughlin was a wide receivers coach while Belichick was the defensive coordinator. “I take full responsibility for every player that’s been on this roster from the time I’ve been director of player personnel until right now, so I’ll take full responsibility even though everybody’s involved with the grading players, and the players we take”.

“It was truly fulfilling to be the leader of those teams”, Coughlin said.

“Winning, losing, playing hard, playing well, doing it for each other, winning the right way; winning the right way is a very, very important thing to me and all of our coaches”, Coughlin said.

“Not necessarily”, Coughlin said when asked if his passion for coaching has been extinguished. Remember, when we lose, I lose. A day earlier, he’d been just as emotional in the locker room, on the verge of tears when he insisted that the Giants players had “failed” Coughlin and that the coach had done nothing wrong.