BigBlueArrington

Great. :brooding:

Is it safe to say we easily get him back? Haven't seen his name come up at all.

WTF?

Since when is a minor surgery such as scraping a lil bit of knee cartilage considered "Career ending"?

Especially when he opted to go and get it taken care of early in the season, so he wouldn't have to rush his return.

Nets suck. A young Knicks team should of beat them tonight.

Nets are like the Milwaukee Brewers of Basketball.

Found it, eh? :LMAO:

Bring it back! :brooding:

Hufnegal

Go after him?

Just days after indicating that he will rework the Kansas City playbook for 2007, Chiefs coach Herm Edwards has fired quarterbacks aide Terry Shea, a move that probably signals a major overhaul in the team's offensive design.

 

Shea, 60, had strong ties to former Chiefs coach Dick Vermeil and was a devotee of onetime offensive coordinator Al Saunders. With Edwards determined to move in a different direction, and perhaps scrap much of the offense with which the former staff operated, the dismissal of Shea was not surprising.

 

Under coordinator Mike Solari, who has received Edwards' staunch support, the Chiefs' offense likely will become even more power-based. Solari was the team's offensive line coach before being promoted to the coordinator spot in 2006. Edwards wants to continue to run the ball, with tailback Larry Johnson clearly the centerpiece of the attack, but wants to be more aggressive throwing vertically.

 

A longtime developer of quarterbacks at the college level, Shea joined the Chiefs' staff under Vermeil in 2001. He left in 2004 to become the offensive coordinator of the Chicago Bears, but was fired after only one season, and returned to Kansas City in 2005.

 

When Edwards replaced the retired Vermeil in 2006, Shea was one of several assistants retained.

 

In addition to his NFL experience, Shea has an extensive college background, and served as head coach at San Jose State (1990-91) and Rutgers (1996-2000).

 

It remains to be seen how Shea's departure affects the status of Trent Green, who missed half the year as he recovered from a severe head injury sustained in the season opener. The two men are very close on and off the field.

 

Edwards indicated that Green will return as the starter in 2007. But at his age (36) and facing the prospect of a new offense, Green might be pressed for his starting job.

http://cbs.sportsline.com/nfl/story/9923666

Another year of Coughlin? Let the hilarity begin

Larry Dobrow Jan. 11, 2007

By Larry Dobrow

Special to CBS SportsLine.com

Tell Larry your opinion!

New York Giants fans can't do a whole lot about the embarrassing year just behind them. They can, however, gird themselves for the frivolity sure to follow now that coach Tom Coughlin has been retained for another season.

A quick preview:

Tom Coughlin often has some 'splainin' to do. (AP)

Tom Coughlin often has some 'splainin' to do. (AP)

Jan. 12: Meeting informally with reporters for the first time since receiving his contract extension, Coughlin stresses that the team must be "more focused" and "more disciplined" next season. In response to the follow-up query of, "You think?" Coughlin solemnly responds, "I do. I honestly do."

Jan. 19: After consulting with locker-room leaders like Antonio Pierce and Sean O'Hara, Coughlin relaxes a handful of his most stringent regulations. Players will no longer be forbidden from wearing white socks on road trips and will now be permitted to show up as late as three minutes early to every meeting.

Jan. 20: Coughlin orders the clocks in every Giants facility set ahead by four minutes.

Feb. 4: Led by Phil Rivers, Shawne Merriman and Nate Kaeding -- all acquired in the draft-day deal that brought Eli Manning to the Giants -- the San Diego Chargers defeat the New Orleans Saints in Super Bowl XLI. Somewhere in North Jersey, when asked by his girlfriend to toss over the remote, Manning overthrows her by two feet.

Feb. 16: After Coughlin is denied final say in the makeup of the Giants’ 2007 coaching staff, the team relents and allows him to pick the quotes that line the locker room walls. Exposing a heretofore unseen side of his personality, Coughlin chooses, "If you smile at me I will understand/'cos that is something everybody everywhere does in the same language."

Feb. 22: The Giants make a splash at the NFL Scouting Combine, administering to potential draftees the team's famous 272-page psychological evaluation. New mess-with-your-mind queries for 2007 include, "Gold or asparagus?" and "Do you ever harbor thoughts of owning a canoe?"

March 1: Michael Strahan, Plaxico Burress and Jeremy Shockey call a press conference to "wipe the slate clean" with coach Coughlin, whom they describe as "an OK guy" who has "a really interestingly shaped head." Shockey promises that never again will a Giants player state, intimate or otherwise give the impression that the team doesn't support its leader. "The days of 'We got outcoached' are over," he promises.

March 17: The Giants' non-mandatory offseason conditioning program gets off to a rough start when only three players -- Manning, son-in-law Chris Snee and punter laureate Jeff Feagles -- show up. An admittedly disappointed Coughlin finds a bright side in the poor turnout, telling reporters that Luke Petitgout and David Diehl are way ahead of schedule on their false-start drills.

March 20: While lifting weights, David Tyree drops a 30-pound plate on his pinky toe. Concerned about its much-discussed inability to keep players healthy, the Giants' medical staff gives him two cough drops and instructs him to drink lots of ginger ale.

April 28: Hoping to address their defensive deficiencies, the Giants snare Arizona CB Antoine Cason in the first round of the NFL Draft. Citing the excessive width of his draft-day lapel, Coughlin fines him $372.50.

May 17: The Giants arrive en masse for their final get-together of the team's offseason program, only to find the meeting room door locked. "We got outconferenced," says Shockey.

May 21: During his first Today Show segment, Tiki Barber cooks up a platter of tarragon chicken.

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June 16-18: Coughlin attends a weekend-long symposium, "The Two-Point Conversion: When Two Is Too Many." He returns looking very, very confused.

July 11: A freak electrical storm in Albany leaves the Giants' practice facility without power. Upon arriving at team HQ early the next morning and finding every clock frozen, Coughlin panics and starts a meeting.

July 28: Shockey takes issue with the consistency of the tater tots in the team's cafeteria. "We got outcooked," he tells the media.

Aug. 5: In their first preseason game, the Giants commit six false starts and are flagged for civil insurrection when Bob Whitfield head-butts an opposing cheerleader. "We've got to be more focused. Disciplined, too," Coughlin says.

Aug. 6: The Dobrow family puts its Giants season tickets up for grabs on eBay.

Sept. 9: The Giants blow their first two-point-conversion decision of the young season, going for two with a 6-0 lead in the first quarter. A befuddled Jared Lorenzen uses all three of the team's first-half timeouts and two of its second-half ones.

Sept. 12: Coughlin administers a sternly worded reprimand to Shockey for nodding off while watching film of the Giants' season-opening loss to the Falcons. Shockey deflects blame to the clubhouse coffee: "We got outcaffeinated."

Sept. 23: In the fourth quarter of an unlikely upset at Dallas, the Giants' defense makes its first important stop in three seasons. Nobody knows quite how to react to this, so Strahan snaps into default mode and blames the media.

Sept. 25: Frustrated by Manning's inability to see him when he's open, Burress hires Bose to pimp out his helmet with a loudspeaker. After being screeched at on 28 consecutive pass attempts, Manning sheepishly admits to having "a problem or two" with his checkdowns.

Oct. 14: Coughlin burns the midnight oil devising a "psych 'em out!" game plan for a clash against the Eagles. Instead of taking advantage of Burress' six-inch height advantage over the Philly DBs, the Giants resolve to run straight at Jeremiah Trotter all game. Final score: Eagles 35, Giants 2.

Oct. 15: Charlie Weis is spotted at a diner in Moonachie. Kirk Ferentz signs autographs courtside at a Devils game. Jim Fassel sits home alone, the blinds drawn, playing Hank Williams records on his old Victrola.

Oct. 21: A frustrated Shockey turns on the Giants Stadium fans following a home loss to the 49ers. "We got outclapped," he says.

Nov. 2: In the run-up to the hyped New York/New York meeting, Coughlin mildly scolds Burress and 18 teammates ("bad Mathias! bad Visanthe!") after they don't bother to show up for the Saturday night walk-through. Across the hall, Jets coach Eric Mangini fines, suspends and imprisons Laveranues Coles for failing to squelch a sneeze during a film session.

Nov. 5: Responding to gripes about the predictability of the red-zone play-calling, Coughlin nearly triples his options by adding "quarterback draw" to "Jacobs off-tackle" and "fade to Burress."

Nov. 22: In their first Thanksgiving Day game in years, the Giants get plastered by Detroit. Shockey refuses to indulge in a generous helping of postgame turkey, saying, "We got outcarved."

Dec. 9, 1:27 p.m.: On a blustery Sunday in Ralph Wilson Stadium, Coughlin sends Jay Feely onto the field to attempt a 51-yard field goal into the wind. The kick is fielded by Roscoe Parrish on the Bills' 25-yard-line and returned for a touchdown.

Dec. 9, 1:52 p.m.: On fourth-and-9 from the Bills' 12-yard line, Coughlin ignores the wind at his back and calls for a WR screen to Sinorice Moss. The play loses 37 yards.

Dec. 9, 5:02 p.m.: Asked in the postgame press conference to explain the seeming philosophical and strategic disconnect in his decision-making, Coughlin instead commends Jim Finn for a key blitz pickup. Quote-starved beat writers shift Coughlin's nickname from "the Duke of Dour" to "the Shakira of Shibboleth."

Dec. 23: With four minutes to go in the fourth quarter of a 106-4 home thrashing by the Patriots, no fewer than 30 Giants are spotted sneaking into the tunnel. Asked if his team has quit on him, Coughlin shakes his head. "Absolutely not." About his future, he adds, "I can only focus on the next game, which will be disciplined."

Dec. 25: Hoping to salvage the season, Coughlin reassigns his offensive and defensive coordinators, as well as the team's conditioning coach and the kid who grabs the tee after kickoffs.

Dec. 31: Hours after completing another aggressively mediocre season, Coughlin deflects questions about his job status. Visibly bewildered that reporters have no queries about the Giants finale -- a 30-20 victory over the Packers in the 3rd Annual Brett Favre Going-Away Bowl -- he says only, "I told the players I expect to see them in March."

Looks like the players got their wish.

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Ok? It`s like having 10 players on the field with him on it. You see they didn`t pick on Sam Madison at all.

The guys not meant to start at CB. Just that, with the injuries, we have had no choice.

 

R.W. McQuaters needs to go.

Whaddya nuts? He's an awesome Nickel player.

I just heard Plax on the radio "It's not Coughlins fault we lost the game, he gets us really well prepared every week...etc."

Then I just read....

Barber came to Coughlin's defense Sunday, saying the coach made a big move late in the season by replacing offensive coordinator John Hufnagel and giving the play-calling to quarterbacks coach Kevin Gilbride.

 

"I am sure he is going to have many hard decisions in front of him, just as well as is this organization going to have some hard decisions," Barber said. "I trust them to do the right thing because they always have."

 

For the most part, Giants players deferred when asked about Coughlin's future, saying it was up to ownership.

 

Safety Gibril Wilson stood behind his coach.

 

"Coach Coughlin is a great coach," Wilson said. "He gets us prepared. He knows exactly what it takes. I hope he is back. Hopefully, management feels the same way I feel."

 

Shockey believes that the turmoil of this season has had a positive effect.

 

"Next year this team will be close and a force to be reckoned with," Shockey said.

 

Whether that's with Coughlin as coach remains to be seen.

Are these players REALLY supporting Coughlins return?

I mean, I can't argue against what they said. I think most people would agree that the Giants don't even deserve to be in the playoffs. If the Giants want to shut the cridits, they have to dominate other teams. Period!

That's irrelevant.

The fact that they came out and publically stated what they did shows no respect for there opponent. At least that's what was said about Plaxico earier in the year. This is worse.

Yeah, I know our situation, but to come out publicly and talk smack like these Philly bums are doing is a joke. I hope it somehow get's this team a little more back on track.

http://boards.philadelphiaeagles.com/index...8507&st=100

Eagles' DE Trent Cole on facing Eli Manning and the Giants: "We can get him rattled. You've seen it for yourself. You get him rattled and his game starts going downhill…That's what we want to do – dominate. We want to stop the running game and get us into a pass-rushing mode. That's what we do best. Like I said, we want to go back out there and expose them again…If we can take Tiki away, I think we have a good enough defensive backfield to stop their passing game."

"As far as a big play downfield? You could say that (WR Plaxico Burress is their only threat at wide receiver)," Eagles' CB Lito Sheppard said.

"Domination is on our mind," Eagles' FS Brian Dawkins said.

I Guess they should't talk like that right? I mean last game when plaxico said something similar it was a big deal.

Everything they said is correct. This is to point to you guys that all players say stuff, What are they supposed to say that they're going to lose?

NFL Players speaking 101.

It doesn't matter. This game has 0 effect on the Giants playoff scenario.

No, it mean the Giants have to beat the Saints and the Vikings have to lose or tie.

This was from December 18th. And the Vikings lost last night.

6. New York Giants (7-7) – Currently hold the No. 6 seed because of head-to-head win over Falcons. Can clinch playoff spot with win, Vikings loss or tie, Falcons loss, Eagles win or tie and Seahawks win or tie; or win, Vikings loss or tie, Falcons loss, Eagles win or tie and 49ers loss or tie.

That the Giants clinched a playoff spot last night?

IR only counts for the regular season.