NY Giants' Tom Coughlin not ready to change offensive philosophy after letting Eli Manning throw deep at end of Eagles loss

Maybe he should have run the ball to try to Alex Smith Jersey set up the potential game-winning field goal against the Eagles rather than let Eli Manning throw his ill-fated deep pass. That’s why when he met his beaten team on Monday morning, hours after the Giants’ 19-17 loss in Philadelphia, Coughlin told the players, “I’ll start the meeting off by talking about my sins. And that’s one I’ll confess to. ”Just don’t mistake his confession for an apology or as a sign that his philosophy is going to change. Because as he accepted the blame for the bitter defeat Calvin Johnson Jersey and welcomed the inevitable second-guessing, Coughlin also strongly defended his aggressive nature. He wants his offense to always be on the attack, which is why he green-lighted a pass play on Sunday night with 25 seconds left and the Giants already in range for a field goal. The result was a pass interference call against Ramses Barden that pushed the Giants back 10 yards - a critical distance when Lawrence Tynes’ 54-yard field goal attempt fell just short of the goal posts. Yes, Coughlin said, in hindsight it Frank Gore Jersey wasn’t the right decision, but “that’s the way we usually play. ”
That’s been the Giants’ philosophy for most of the Coughlin era and definitely since Kevin Gilbride was promoted to offensive coordinator for the start of the 2007 season. The Giants are a pass-first team that’s not afraid to take shots at the end zone.
Not everyone agreed with doing that in the final seconds on Sunday night, though. Once they reached the Eagles’ 27-yard line they first tried a draw to Ahmad Bradshaw that moved them to the Cheap NFL Jerseys 26. They were looking at a 44-yard field goal and had a second down and no timeouts with about 25 seconds remaining. The conservative choice would’ve been to run the ball, then rush to the line of scrimmage so Manning could spike the ball and stop the clock. Even Bradshaw said that was a spot where “we could have ran and avoided the penalty (and) got closer to the end zone. ”But, for better or for worse, that’s just not the Giants’ style. There was more, in fact, Cheap Nike NFL Jerseys that Coughlin said he would’ve changed in hindsight. On the play after the Barden penalty, Coughlin ordered another ill-fated pass - this time from the 36 that fell incomplete.
That left 15 seconds on the clock and Coughlin decided to try to kick the field goal on third down. Maybe, he said, he should’ve tried another play so they could pick up another couple of yards. And maybe that’s why, as he left his press conference and headed up to his office to watch some film on the next Sam Bradford Jersey opponent, Coughlin joked, “I don’t feel like doing that. I’d rather go upstairs and cry some more. “Put the blame right here, ” Coughlin said. “It’s right where it should be. The game was in hand. We let it get out of hand. All the analysis afterwards is fine and dandy. That’s what we all do for a living, me included. “It’s no fun when it doesn’t work out the way you planned it to work out. ”.