Let’s give Coughlin, the old curmudgeon, the credit he deserves in the wake of the Giants’ 29-14 victory over Rex Ryan’s Jets on Saturday at MetLife Stadium. Coughlin endured Ryan’s mouthy forecasts, the mounting possibility and pressure of facing unemployment, and the pain of a late-game sideline collision with his running back D. J. Ware.
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Ryan won’t be facing a firing squad if the Jets don’t win at Miami next Sunday and don’t receive the help they need from Cincinnati, Tennessee and Oakland or Denver. With all the possibilities, the A.F.C. could mimic that wild last night of baseball’s 2011 regular season, as good as it gets in sports.
For the Giants, life is much simpler: beat the Cowboys, go to the playoffs.
A limping Coughlin said he would have signed up for that back in September. “Never better,” he said when asked how he felt, which sounded like an exaggeration for a Super Bowl champion. Then again, he had just beaten Ryan. So maybe not.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/25/sports/football/giants-tom-coughlin-is-standing-at-the-end.html?_r=1&ref=sports
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