Tom Coughlin: Giants boss has told me nothing

“The only factor that is involved right now is we have one game left and we have to prepare ourselves to play a Philadelphia team in the division that they know us very well, we know them very well”.

“I’ve kind of treated everyday of my life as an audition”, Shurmur said. “To go out and fight tooth and nail to try to beat the Giants – that’s the reality of it. That’s the moment I tried to paint for them”. He’ll be the one leading the Eagles into the final game of the season, while Bill Davis will still be in charge of the defense.

“Do I want to come back, I don’t think that’s a great question right now”, Coughlin said, via NJ.com. Are they willing to risk losing him if they replace Coughlin and bring in a coach who will want to hire his own staff? Coughlin will turn 70 before next season and now after missing the playoffs for four consecutive seasons, you have to figure his tenure has passed.

Meeting with his team, Coughlin once again stressed his players needed to focus on the game and not the possible end of his coaching career.

When the New York Giants named Ben McAdoo offensive coordinator before the 2014 season he was considered an up-and-coming young coach on the fast track who could be the successor when Tom Coughlin’s time with the Giants was done.

“All these other issues will clear up in time, but not before then”. That’s not my position to say that.

Coughlin’s request – perhaps his final one – is that the focus this week be on the game against the Eagles and not about him, his legacy or his future.

“It’s definitely hard”, said Pugh when asked if it was hard to block out the intensifying rumors of Coughlin’s eventual demise. Shurmur, who posted a combined record of 9-23 in two seasons as the Cleveland Browns head coach before arriving in Philadelphia, has experience taking teams into season-ending contests with little at stake. “The players are used to doing things a certain way”. However, the brutal losses of this season demonstrated how the game has passed Coughlin by and why the Giants need to let him go.

“I don’t even want to think about that”.

“He’s going to be in the Hall of Fame one day”. I always have the competitive spirit. Giants lead series, 82-77-2. “It just so happens that the last game of the year is against the Giants in the Meadowlands”.