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My guess is he doesnt have the power to do that.That he is being told and ordered to play him by the owner and general manager.got to remember in the NFL,coachs dont have final say all the time on who gets to be their starting quarterback.if this was college football,I guarantee you Coughlin would have benched him sometime last year.damn straight.Its not HIS fault he has a quarterback who all of a sudden isnt willing to take a hit from a defensive lineman and is just throwing it up in the air resulting in INT'S to get rid of it because he is afraid now.Coughlin is a future HOF coach
No other coach gets you as much bang for the buck
Eli manning is the problem not tom coughlin.its so easy to do the easy thing and blame the head coach and fire him instead of the quarterback which is what robert kraft did with pete carrol and is now regretting it big time now realising it that it was Bledsoe he should have fired back tnen not carrol,that bledsoe was losing games for him,not the head coach.This owner is smart enough to realise that Coughlin is not the problem.
Well as a coach if he sees Eli playing scared then he is supposed to bench him
thats what pisses me off about the NFL is politics always come into play because of money.because of that the best players at their posistions a lot of times dont get to start.its not right but thats how it is.
Not every coach gets to be like bill parcells who was given complete control on who he wanted to play.thats why he left the patriots for the jets was he wanted more control and he got it.
Parcells he was one of those rare coachs where he didnt care HOW much you made,if you were stinking up the joint,he got rid of you.He had that power to do that with the jets that was why he benched o'donnel during a playoff game that one year despite the several millions he had signed a 5 year contract to the previous year.
The jets gave him the okay to do as he chose knowing they would have to still pay o'donnel several millions after that while not playing for them because they gave parcells the power to play who he chose despite how much money they made.That was why he was always so successful wherever he went because he didnt give a crap how much a player made.If they werent producing he got rid of them. Very few coachs now ever have that luxary.they have to play with what they got.
Not every coach gets to have the luxary that parcells had.we dont know all the details.because of politics,i wouldnt be surprised if he has been ordered to play him and if he benchs him,he'll lose his job.coachs never come out and say that but thats the case a lot of times. got to remember manning was i believe the number one pick or close to that in the draft.
He is making millions upon millions of money so he cant just bench him cause he wants to.not in the NFL.again its not right but thats how it is.they invested heavily in him and they dont want to dump him now. its too bad for giants fans but they're going to be stuck with him until he decides to do the right thing and step down.
If he has ANOTHER bad year,then ownership needs to release him plain and simple.
Well if that's the case then his hands are tied
that happens so many times with teams in the freaking NFL so im afraid they are having him coach with his hands tied.Its a shame for Giants fans.I know I would be pissed about it if i was one. the GM should be drafting someone or signing a free agent or something so he knows he doesnt have his job so secure but thats out of coughlins hands.thats the GM's responsiblity.
another time where i know for sure a coach was playing with his hands tied was when bill cowher coached the steelers.He had nobody any better than kordell stewart for a a few years till he got rothesberger so he had to play with what he got is why he never did the right thing and benched him. soon as they got big ben,they finally did and traded him or rleased him,one of the two,cant remember which.he was another one where they had too much invested in him and cowher had to be playing with what he's got,the card he was dealt with.