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Twelve seasons and two Super Bowl titles later, Tom Coughlin is no longer the head coach of the New York Giants. After meeting with Giants ownership on Monday, one day after New York completed its third consecutive losing season, Coughlin announced he was stepping down. Coughlin spent 15 years with the Giants in total, three of those as an assistant coach.
A news conference for the Giants is scheduled at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday to address the resignation. Coughlin, Giants co-owners John Mara and Steve Tisch, and Giants general manager Jerry Reese will be in attendance.
“In addition to delivering two Super Bowl titles, Tom represented us with class and dignity and restored the pride to our entire organization. He has all the qualities you could ever ask for in a head coach, and set very high standards for whoever will succeed him,” said Mara in a statement.
“I think it has been evident these last 12 years here how much pride I take in representing this franchise,” read Coughlin’s statement. Adding “I am gratified and proud that we were able to deliver two more Lombardi trophies to the display case in our lobby during that time.”
A former Giants wide receivers coach who spent three years on Bill Parcell’s staff from 1988-1990, Coughlin became head coach in 2004 after a nine-year run as the first coach in the history of the expansion team Jacksonville Jaguars; the same year the Giants traded up in the first round of the draft to select quaterback Eli Manning.
Coughlin’s final record as Giants head coach was 110-92, including playoff games. Counting his time in Jacksonville, and the playoff games he coached there, he is 182-156 as an NFL head coach. His regular season win total of 170 ranks 12th in NFL history.
