1/16/2014 5:50:24 AM
The sweeping shake-up of the Giants’ offensive brain trust continued Wednesday when the longtime assistants Mike Pope and Jerald Ingram were fired, Bill Pennington and Ben Shpigeljan of the New York Times report.
Pope, the longest-tenured assistant in Giants history, was the tight ends coach for the team’s four Super Bowl wins, the only coach to be a part of all four runs.
Ingram, the running backs coach, had been with the team since Coach Tom Coughlin was hired by the Giants in 2004. Ingram’s link to Coughlin dates to the early 1990s, when Coughlin was Boston College’s coach.
By any measure, then, the firings were not minor transactions for Coughlin, who had firmly expressed his faith in his assistants. But when an owner declares that his team’s offense is “broken” — as John Mara did the day after the Giants’ final regular-season game — personnel changes appear inevitable.
The exits of Pope and Ingram would also seem to indicate that the new offensive coordinator, Ben McAdoo, who was hired Tuesday, wants to alter the philosophy of the offensive staff working under him. That could make for more changes on the Giants’ staff in the coming days.
“Both of these men are very good talent evaluators and, in their own way, are very good teachers,” Coughlin said in a statement. “I decided to make a change in our staff that I believe will be productive going forward. These are very difficult decisions, but I felt they were in the best interests of the Giants moving forward.”
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Wait... so is Tom Coughlin still not retiring?
Dude's like 71 years old, right?
The sweeping shake-up of the Giants’ offensive brain trust continued Wednesday when the longtime assistants Mike Pope and Jerald Ingram were fired, Bill Pennington and Ben Shpigeljan of the New York Times report.
Pope, the longest-tenured assistant in Giants history, was the tight ends coach for the team’s four Super Bowl wins, the only coach to be a part of all four runs.
Ingram, the running backs coach, had been with the team since Coach Tom Coughlin was hired by the Giants in 2004. Ingram’s link to Coughlin dates to the early 1990s, when Coughlin was Boston College’s coach.
By any measure, then, the firings were not minor transactions for Coughlin, who had firmly expressed his faith in his assistants. But when an owner declares that his team’s offense is “broken” — as John Mara did the day after the Giants’ final regular-season game — personnel changes appear inevitable.
The exits of Pope and Ingram would also seem to indicate that the new offensive coordinator, Ben McAdoo, who was hired Tuesday, wants to alter the philosophy of the offensive staff working under him. That could make for more changes on the Giants’ staff in the coming days.
“Both of these men are very good talent evaluators and, in their own way, are very good teachers,” Coughlin said in a statement. “I decided to make a change in our staff that I believe will be productive going forward. These are very difficult decisions, but I felt they were in the best interests of the Giants moving forward.”
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Wait... so is Tom Coughlin still not retiring?
Dude's like 71 years old, right?
