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Legendary retired NFL coach Tom Coughlin teamed up with Eli Manning to win two Super Bowls and define a generation of football in New York. The two are synonymous with the 2000s and 2010s New York Giants.
Coughlin recently appeared on an episode of Barstool Sports’ hit podcast Pardon My Take and talked at length about his life in football. That, of course, included some talk about Eli Manning.
Tom Coughlin first became an NFL Head Coach in 1994, when the Jaguars hired him in preparation for the franchise to start play in 1995. He quickly turned the team into a playoff team, as they made their playoff debut in their second season. They’d make the playoffs four years in a row, before missing the postseason in his final three seasons from 2000-2002, leading to his firing.
He joined the Giants in 2004, and coached there from 2004-2014. The Giants made the playoffs six times, winning two Super Bowls, both against the Patriots. They famously knocked off the undefeated Patriots in Super Bowl XLII.
Tom Coughlin and Eli Manning won plenty of games together, and those big playoff wins will live in Giants lore forever. Coughlin thinks so highly of Eli Manning that he considers him the greatest big game quarterback he ever saw. Take a listen.
That’s a bold statement, considering that he coached against Tom Brady. That being said, Manning did defeat Brady in two Super Bowls, so maybe Tom Coughlin is correct.
Coughlin is currently serving as a consultant with the Raiders, who are ironically now part-owned by Tom Brady.