Steve Spagnuolo Back To Giants Still A Possibility, Says NFL.com

Something do to with it..but really, how would I know..The first 13 weeks were horrible..So I’d love to get Spags back..Now if Fewell keeps that defense humming..they probably will retain him..plus alot of us who are fond of Spags, need to look at what he accomplished in STL..He didn’t light that team up..they flamed-out…

Dating a decent girl and getting in deep, and then your super hot ex-girlfriend becomes available. “Hey this is been great, well not great but average, PEACE!”

I would jump for joy for weeks!!! Do weeks!!!

playing more agressively the last couple of games, but I think we’d see that type of defense all the time with Spags.

I think he is more likely to go back to Philly than to the NYG. Why, you ask? Well, he already achieved here, getting a ring, so coming back here does not raise his profile. Go back to Philly, get their defense really firing on all cylinders, and take the talent they have and (vomit) win a ring there. It makes you look fantastic again (which is needed after 10-38 as a HC), and get your star high enough to get another shot at HC.

However, I ultimately bet he ends up somewhere else, reviving a bad team’s D.

PF returns in 2012. The Giants success the last two weeks falls under the Good News, Bad News category.

I mean the knee jerk reaction is to say if you can get Spagnulo back, you do it (and that may be the right thing to do). On the other hand, I think most of my issues with PF is that he knows what to do to make this defense work… he just doesn’t do those things.

I have a friend who is a pro baseball player. He talked to me about going to different teams and playing for different coaches, and how it seemed like every coach wanted to change something different with your game. Batting stance, swing, etc. All these guys looking to make their “mark” on players. I get that same feeling from watching the PF defensive schemes. He does a lot of stuff that seems pretty unique (at least to my eye), which is ok I guess but when they don’t work, he doesn’t necessarily stop trying. Remember how long it took to get out of that 3 safety look he came out with against the Colts last year? And what did he try again this year, over and over? And how did it work? Exactly. Same with the 4 DE set. Same with the complex coverage schemes that are clearly confusing guys (I’m still convinced the TD against Ross this past weekend was some kind of breakdown in communication, btw). Those are things that nobody else in the NFL does, and have not worked, and yet we see them over and over.

I guess I still think PF has it in him to be a very good coach. Its almost as if he’s not allowing himself to be, or something.

Firing fewell is insane. How many d coordinators do we have to go through? We need this unit to stay consistent. Look at our offense.. killdrive ain’t the best but hey we have sucess.. I think all of you are insane to think spags would fix this defense up better than fewell. Fewell stays.. spags signs with a different team. Very unclassy if the giants fire fewell just to get spags. Not a fan.

I just got a boner………

Can he take over today and change our scheme by the weekend?

People will disagree on who has the gretaest need. However, I will not hope we loose this week. If the D plays very well we can hope to go deep into the playoffs. If so, PF isn’t going anywhere. Can’t we wait until after this Sunday’s game before we throw our DC under the bus?

is the more time passes that he hasnt signed with Philly as their DC, the better chance the Giants have already approached him thru underground channels that they are interested in having him back for Spags 2. As for PF, I have a feeling Mara feels Giants tradition has been tainted by defensive performance for most of the season and lays major blame on PF. If Philly doesnt hire him in a few days, I think he comes back to Giants in 2012, no matter how far we go in playoffs.

The fact he hasn’t already gone to the Eagles is a sign the Giants have a chance to get him.

They had a great piece where the radio guy from Philly (the Fan, mike m or something) gave his take on the Andy Reid situation. Philly management kept Reid, he felt like he should be accountable and fired.

Basically, if you took exactly what the guy said about Andy Reid and inserted “Tom Coughlin”, he hit the nail exactly on the head in terms of how I feel about this subject for the Giants.

A couple of paraphrased points about what he said:

1) Who cares if Andy Reid had alot of good years with competitive teams. He did NOT win a Superbowl. The object is to win a title.

2) He thought Reid should be out – people ask him “well who would be better?” – his answer was “thats not relevant. The point is to change the direction of the franchise, to win a Superbowl – who was Mike Tomlin when he was hired? Who was Mike McCarthy, how has he done? Was Tampa wrong to fire Dungy and hire Gruden and win a Ring?- the point being, Andy Reid is not the ONLY COMPETENT COACH in the world”….

3) What about the Eagles late season run – “yeah, beating four crappy teams with bad quarterbacks when all the pressure was off, and THAT justifies saving his job??”….

Bingo. There is absolutely nothing I can add to this, it is dead on and exactly the way I feel about Coughlin.

If you are in the group of fans that just want a “competitive” team every year, I would say Andy Reid is THE BEST coach you could have, and maybe Coughlin is a close second with Marty Schottenheimer third. All are quality people, respected, with sound principles and all that.

And I would want NONE of those as the coach of this Giant team at this point. The point is, to win a Superbowl and play quality football doing it… period.

If you get a chance, try and play the broadcast back, it really was a great conversation showing both sides of the issue…. and if you are on the other side of this issue, I am not saying you are necessarily wrong, its just a different expectation.

We win the SB. Radio gets a HC gig. Spags comes back. Let me dream.

and they return Spags to us?

Depends more on whether or not Coughlin stays. If he retires, I don’t think we’ll have the luxury of seeing Fewell 3.0 (unless the Giants were to have a solid playoff run on some strong defensive showings).

I don’t ever remember the guys looking lost and waving their arms to the sideline for instruction. Also the D loved playing for spags. I loved watching the guy coach up the D after every series. Yes I have a crush on spags