The New York Giants are searching for a new head coach. As they went 7-27 over the past two seasons, the Giants seemed to be a team that lacked accountability, real standards, and the leadership to succeed.
Players clearly want that to change. Here is what players said about what they want in the next head coach on Monday as they packed their belongings into boxes to head into another offseason too long for anyone’s liking.
Wide receiver Darius Slayton:
“Somebody that’s Tom Coughlin-esque. He brought a lot of things to this organization. It’s no mistake why he won when he was here. It was his personality and the way he went about his business. I think it takes a certain type of personal to be a head coach in New York. It’s a tough job. Comes with a lot of scrutiny. I think you need to have a certain disposition to get the job done effectively. He probably embodies a lot of the qualities that we require now.”
Wide receiver Wan’Dale Robinson:
“A coach that’s going to come in and install discipline. Everybody has to be held to the same accountability.”
Backup quarterback Jameis Winston:
“We definitely are required to have some structure and strong leaders put in position for our team to have success because we have a very young team, and I believe it’s required for us to have stern leadership. We have to finish. That’s an accumulation of players and coaches in crunch decisions making key choices in those key moments.”
“I believe it’s required for us to have stern leadership.”
— JAMEIS WINSTON
Safety Jevon Holland:
“Just a coach that establishes a good culture. Somebody that holds people accountable, demands us to be at our best when it’s required.
“Winning close games is a learned skill. I think it’s an established skill through culture. It’s also an emphasized attribute while prepping during the week, prepping in training camp, prepping in OTAs. Talking about situations. That’s really what football is is situations. Once you bypass the techniques, the fundamentals, you start getting to situations and that’s when it really needs to be emphasized and re-emphasized throughout the week, re-emphasized throughout training camp. So that when we get to those problems we just rely on reaction.
“I think a leader of men makes a good head coach.”
Wide receiver Malik Nabers:
“A leader. Somebody that can lead men out to battle. Somebody we want to go battle for. Somebody that’s going to have your back when you’re out there on the field, somebody that’s going to uplift you when you’re down. I feel like we find somebody that can do that we’ll be getting to the right direction.”
Edge defender Kayvon Thibodeaux:
“Someone that pushes us. I think we’ve got a lot of great guys in the building.”
Quarterback Jaxson Dart:
“Ultimately I just want to win. That’s really all I care about.
“I definitely feel like there’s a relationship from quarterback to head coach that you want. Definitely want somebody that can match my intensity and I can match theirs, and have the same vision and outlook of how we want things to be done and to win at the highest level.
“I just want to be in a situation where the coach is going to help put everybody around in the best situation.”
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