Press conference transcripts
by Ed Valentine on Jan 5, 2010 10:00 AM EST
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PrintBe sure to check the 'Trascripts' page for all of Monday's season ending statements. You will find:
- All of John Mara's tirade.
- The Tom Coughlin and Jerry Reese press conferences.
- Season-ending statements Q&A sessions with Eli Manning and Justin Tuck.
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Monte kiffen
may have had enough of being around his idiot son at UT. Let’s get him up here to run our D.
LarryHarryCarlPepper
by gr8kicks on Jan 5, 2010 10:27 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
hmmm.....
damn, talk about no stone unturned.
…be as good a choice as any, but I doubt it.
His son may be an idiot…but its his son. I doubt he leaves his boy after one season.
N8 !
by FreeBradshaw on Jan 5, 2010 10:32 AM EST up reply actions
I guess you had to be there.
I am glad to hear that he is totally displeased and plans on addressing it across the board. He certainly didn’t sound wishy-washy, nor did he infer that he would necessarily supersede the Coaches and GM..That’s for owners like Jones and Snyder..not a Mara..But he certainly let it be known how he feels.
Mara
The one comment that struck home was when he said it felt more like a 2-14 season instead of a 8-8 season.
I couldn’t agree more.
We all have short memories
and 5-0 is not even able to be seen in the rearview mirror.
all we see is 3-8
exactly.
It’s as if Mara simply does not get it. Momentum swings back and forth all the time in this league, and sometimes, there isn’t an explanation other than the fact that the other teams players made plays.
At this point, he needs to cool off, and stop attempting to come up with some broad-based theory about what’s wrong with the entire Giants orgainzation. We started 5-0, and lost 3 of 11. How is that so unexpected? Denver started 6-0 and went 2-8. The titans started 0-6, and went 8-2. Even the Panthers and Browns finished the season a combined 8-1. Some years, you catch all of the breaks; other years, nothing goes right.
Just picture this scenario: In ‘07, the Giants fail to come back against the Bills late in the season, and miss the playoffs. Coughlin is fired, and Mara claims the organization is going in the complete wrong direction, and hasn’t laid down a foundation conducive to winning football games. If you’re agreeing with Mara know, you’d probably have agreed with him then too.
Relax, Mara. Passing judgement on the principles of a proven head coach and GM because of a stretch of 10 games is what crappy franchises do.
That's the advantage of the NFL's parity policy
If most of the injured guys come back healthy next year, we pick up a couple of good players either through the draft or free agency we have a great shot at winning the NFC East next year against the third place schedule. After last year, people were talking about the Cowboys being in disarray, losing massive amounts of talent and finishing last in the NFC East this year. Look where they are — even after having a draft that most people judged as non productive.
Moreover if you eliminate the Snee holding penalty in the Chargers game and the Jacobs fumble in the second Eagles game and there’s a good chance this year’s team would have ended up 10-6 or better. It doesn’t take much for a team to rise into contention or be left out. As bad as this team was, it won three games against teams with winning records. The Eagles who were in first place in the NFC East after week 16, on the other hand only won one game against a team with a winning record — the Falcons, who they played when Ryan and Turner were both injured.
Judicious reevaluation is the order of the day, not knee jerk house cleaning.
by Tucker Fredrickson on Jan 5, 2010 3:12 PM EST up reply actions
I dunno who said it..
I think it was O’hara..not sure..
but the GIants were a few plays away from being 10-6 or even 12-4.
..yet, also a few plays away from being 6-10.
Its goes all ways…they really ended up with the record they deserved this year.
Fitting for a team that basically played with any sort of consistency on offense and not defense (tho the offense was fairly inconsistent.
N8 !
Look at the eagles
They are essentially the Giants with a better schedule.
The only team with a winning record the iggle beat is the Atlanta Falcons. They were 0-4 vs. playoff teams.
The Giants had 8 games vs. playoff teams going 2-6. For whatever reason the Giants were what they were. They were an 8-8 team capable of pounding the bottom of the league but struggling against the top. Yet somehow able to sweep the cowgirls.
I think it reasonable to think that if the iggles played 8 games vs. playoff teams their record would have been similar to the Giants.
well then
I guess I’m not the only one who thinks Mara is blowing everything way out of proportion. Criticism of Coughlin and Reese over a season that could have easily been 10-6 or 12-4 (as you guys mentioned) is totally out of line.
Although, I guess if I had as much of a vested interest in the success of the team as Mara, I’m not sure how I’d react to a series of bad breaks either. I’d prolly take the traditional route: constantly think about how much $$$ it cost me until I senselessly fired everyone.
Criticism of Coughlin and Reese over a season that could have easily been 10-6 or 12-4
What games where you watching because I counted 6 losses that we were blown out of the building with no chance what so ever of winning the game. San Diego and the Cardinals are the only two we were in. And of those two games only San Diego did we make the plays to win.
by Late for Dinner on Jan 5, 2010 5:21 PM EST up reply actions
revisionist history
We were got Blown out in 6 of our 8 losses, if we were losing close matches I would see your point, but we were getting beat like the Detroit lions out there.
by Late for Dinner on Jan 5, 2010 5:27 PM EST up reply actions
Mr. Mara was dead right this time
In fact the one thing we Giant fans know about our owner is he will always error on the side of caution, our management moves slowly before making a decision.
Losing is one thing, but it’s how the Giants were losing that got Mr. Mara to speak up. We were not just losing because of momentum swings or the other team was just better that day. We were not even showing up for the game. 5 of the 8 losses we were never in the game period. Something has to be done because when your team starts craping the bed like that you got to fix things before that attitude spreads around your whole lockeroom.
Denver fired their coach last year for crappy play down the stretch and that’s the only reason that their new coach is still hear, because if he does that again you better believe Pat Bowlin will mix things up. The Panthers have not offered Fox a new contract because the owner thinks Fox’s teams are to inconsistant.
Be happy you have an owner with a pulse and will not tolorate losing, Mr. Mara only spoke up becuase of how the Giants lost games, not becase they finished 8-8
by Late for Dinner on Jan 5, 2010 5:15 PM EST up reply actions
Mara has just expressed
what we all feel. I have never in my life been more disgusted over the play of the Giants. These past 2 weeks completely obliterate anything we did early in the season. Look at the Yankees, they just won the WS and they’re keeping their foot on the gas, being aggressive this offseason. Looks like we need to do the same.
*sheds tear* I'll miss you Sheridan!!
damn no one here will agree with me?!?!?!
E-A-G-L-E-S EAGLES!!!
Hey Joe
Good luck Sunday, by the way Mr. Sheridan is now available to run a new and improved Eagle defense for you guys.
by Late for Dinner on Jan 5, 2010 5:22 PM EST up reply actions
I thought these were a good set of interviews..
It shows they are all on the same page and are committed to fixing this mess..They all echoed one another…Interesting comment Justin made about feeling uncomfortable about being more vocal with other players because he wasn’t 100%…I would think that the fact he was fighting thru a painful injury would give him that same right to critique others from a leadership perspective, to me that is a form of leading by example.
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