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Is Spagnuolo next Giants coach?

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If either the Jets or the Detroit Lions offers Steve Spagnuolo its head coaching job, there may be nothing the Giants can do to prevent their defensive coordinator from leaving. Unless they're willing to name him their head coach, too. Giants GM Jerry Reese said Monday the team would consider making Spagnuolo a "head coach-in-waiting" if it would keep him from leaving for another team. It would be an unprecedented move by the Giants, but since Tom Coughlin's current contract expires in 2011 when he will be 65, they could promise Spagnuolo the job would be his then.

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January 13, 2009  06:16 AM ET

Wait, you're already looking to replace that won a Super Bowl last year, won his division this year, and the first seed, and probably would go back to the SB if it weren't for Plax shooting himself???

January 13, 2009  06:21 AM ET
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Coughlin is the coach and Spaghetti can wait his turn or go to another team. Lets get this straight though....THE DEFENSE has been by them boys on the team...Strahan, Osi, and the rest of the gang. Not this sucking up person who IS getting all of the glory. Can you dig it?

ugh... Bond is back

January 13, 2009  06:25 AM ET

There is no reason for the Giants to upset Tom Coughlin's tenure. No one even knows if Spags could handle a Head Coach position.

January 13, 2009  07:16 AM ET

how do they know couglin is ready to hang up his whistle? why wait for a coach to hopefully retire when i can get a head coaching job now

January 13, 2009  07:21 AM ET
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how do they know couglin is ready to hang up his whistle? why wait for a coach to hopefully retire when i can get a head coaching job now

Because it is the Jets and the Lions...neither of which are decent job opportunities.

January 13, 2009  07:43 AM ET

Wait a few years and pass up on some big bucks? Drop 'em Spags, take the dough and go to the Lions. you will be a hero if you win 4 games next year. And when the big 3 automakers go down the tubes, the Lions will move to some city with some cash. Take the money, screw the Giants.

January 13, 2009  08:07 AM ET
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Wait a few years and pass up on some big bucks? Drop 'em Spags, take the dough and go to the Lions. you will be a hero if you win 4 games next year. And when the big 3 automakers go down the tubes, the Lions will move to some city with some cash. Take the money, screw the Giants.

Good point

January 13, 2009  08:11 AM ET
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Wait a few years and pass up on some big bucks? Drop 'em Spags, take the dough and go to the Lions. you will be a hero if you win 4 games next year. And when the big 3 automakers go down the tubes, the Lions will move to some city with some cash. Take the money, screw the Giants.

But odds are you go to the Lions and have 3 non-playoff seasons and you don't get another head coaching job for the next 10 years. Head coaches don't get 2nd chances. Neither the Lions or Jets job is too attractive right now. Jets have QB issues. Major ones. Lions were 0-16.

January 13, 2009  08:12 AM ET
QUOTE(#6):

Because it is the Jets and the Lions...neither of which are decent job opportunities.

new stadium young team you can't get much better

January 13, 2009  08:15 AM ET
QUOTE(#7):

Wait a few years and pass up on some big bucks? Drop 'em Spags, take the dough and go to the Lions. you will be a hero if you win 4 games next year. And when the big 3 automakers go down the tubes, the Lions will move to some city with some cash. Take the money, screw the Giants.

Exactly! Don't pass up a chance at that kind of money and if you turn that sorry franchise around there will be more $ where that came from!

January 13, 2009  08:36 AM ET

If he goes to the Lions and wins 3 games, they'll hail him as Detroit's Vince Lombardi. And the Jets have QB issues, no worse than 10 other teams in the league. Either one would be a good job, and Spags would be a good coach.

BTW, it says Tom Coughlin will be 65 in 2011. I would have guessed he was in his 80s right now.

January 13, 2009  08:40 AM ET
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how do they know couglin is ready to hang up his whistle? why wait for a coach to hopefully retire when i can get a head coaching job now

Ask any coordinator at Penn State how waiting to become Head Coach works out...

January 13, 2009  08:43 AM ET
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Wait, you're already looking to replace that won a Super Bowl last year, won his division this year, and the first seed, and probably would go back to the SB if it weren't for Plax shooting himself???

The difference between good coaches and great coaches is that good coaches win championships, great coaches win championships AND check their players sweat pants for firearms.

January 13, 2009  08:47 AM ET
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Exactly! Don't pass up a chance at that kind of money and if you turn that sorry franchise around there will be more $ where that came from!

and there is no guarantee about anything in life, with one exception...... Dallas sucks. Take the dough Spags!

January 13, 2009  08:47 AM ET

Stay where you are dude........regroup in 09 and have at least a chance at making it to the SB for ring # 2.

Wow - lots of Giants stories.....I am liking the transition.

January 13, 2009  08:52 AM ET

If it really is just about the money, like some of you here suggest, then he should get the bucks he feels he deserves from the Giants and stay put, rather than agree to coach pitiful teams and organizations like the Jets and Lions.

January 13, 2009  08:57 AM ET

Spag's is a smart enough guy to know you have to take advantage of you're opportunities today because there's just no way of knowing what tomorrow will bring. So I expect Spag's will move on and take it even if it's the Lion's or the Jets.

January 13, 2009  09:50 AM ET

smart on the Giants part but a bonehead decision on Spaghetti if he agrees to wait

 
January 13, 2009  09:53 AM ET
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Wait, you're already looking to replace that won a Super Bowl last year, won his division this year, and the first seed, and probably would go back to the SB if it weren't for Plax shooting himself???

The Rams made this mistake years ago when they forced Dick Vermeil into an early retirement so they could give the job to a hotshot coordinator named Mike Martz. The Giants should be happy with Coughlin, and let Spagnuolo move on somewhere else.

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