[sigh] congrats, philly

[ed]

it wasn't as terrible as i feared.

goodbye, tiki. i'm still not convinced brandon jacobs is a satisfactory replacement. but then again, who is?

ed

[carmachu]

Yeah Jets last quarter was worse.....

[Parzival]

I was just shocked at how openly the Giants disrespected their coach during the game.

[Wook]

Who's more likely to get the axe. The disrespecting players or the coach you think?

[Paulypalooza]

I expected the Giants to be thoroughly outplayed on offense and defense. Your team has nothing to be ashamed of ed

[BattleNymph]

*pats ed sympathetically on the back*

Join me in the crying over spilt milk corner eh.

*hands ed a 1/2 full Giants glass of milk while she cries into her own 49'er cup*

[ed]

[winces]

BN, you're a niners fan? rough season, but there were definitely enough glimmers of hope this year that you should be looking forward to next year.

ed

[Parzival]

The coach. There were too many players to fire. <shrug> Not all were as blatant as Shockey, who took the coach's headphones off to yell at him, but there were over a dozen snubs that I saw. And I wasn't watching all that much.

Of course, nowadays it would be the coach regardless. Players are the bigger investment for the franchise.

[ed]

i saw that but didn't get the impression he was yelling at coughlin.

ed

[Paulypalooza]

Shockey is a loud mouth ass but in that case ed is right. While you should never pull off the coaches headset in that case it was to reassure Coughlin that the refs had mad a mistake and they didn't lose the ball on a kickoff.

[BattleNymph]

[winces]

BN, you're a niners fan? rough season, but there were definitely enough glimmers of hope this year that you should be looking forward to next year.

ed

yeah. This year was better than last year but they have a long ways to go. *sighs*

[ed]

one word: draft.

ed

[BattleNymph]

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/6345494?FSO1&ATT=HMA

[ed]

weird. i think the real question for the giants in the off-season is who's gonna replace ernie accorsi, the outgoing GM?

ed

[Detritus]

weird. i think the real question for the giants in the off-season is who's gonna replace ernie accorsi, the outgoing GM?

ed
Scott Pioli (New England) has turned the Giants down before the negotiations really started. He would have been a great choice.

[ed]

thanks, det. the past few days have been, shall we say, chaotic.

ed

[Detritus]

It's looking like Tom Coughlin might stay on (http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2725854) as coach of the Giants for next season.

The New York Giants are likely to retain embattled head coach Tom Coughlin, but a conference call originally scheduled for Tuesday afternoon to discuss his status was postponed as organizational meetings continued.

Coughlin will enter the final year of his contract in 2007 at a salary of $3 million, but speculation is that Giants ownership will extend his deal by at least one year to keep the veteran coach from being a lame duck. A source close to Coughlin told ESPN.com on Tuesday that he is "cautiously optimistic" the coach will be retained and that his contract will be extended.

But the postponement of the Tuesday conference call signaled there are still some elements to be resolved, possibly with the contract extension and also probably with staffing issues.

One assistant coach acknowledged Tuesday night that the staff remains in the dark about its future.

Coughlin dismissed offensive coordinator John Hufnagel before the team's final regular-season game. Quarterbacks coach Kevin Gilbride assumed the play-calling chores for that contest and Sunday's wild-card game defeat at Philadelphia. There are almost certain to be further staffing changes in the offseason.

In three seasons with the Giants, Coughlin has compiled a 23-25 record in the regular season and 0-2 record in playoff appearances. But New York suffered through a tumultuous 2006 campaign, losing six of its final eight games after starting the season 6-2 and barely earning a wild-card berth.

The season was marked by a crippling spate of injuries but also by open criticism of Coughlin and some assistant coaches from several of the team's highest profile veterans. Still, retaining Coughlin would provide stability to a team whose co-owners, Wellington Mara and Bob Tisch, died within weeks of each other in late 2005 and which will lose general manager Ernie Accorsi to retirement next week.