From the Daily news LAST WEDNESDAY:
“You definitely, definitely – and I told our team this – you need to put together an outstanding performance for our fans here at home,” Coughlin said.
And to be fair, this hasn’t been 2003 when the end of the Jim Fassel era played out in front of half-empty stadiums, prompting Wellington Mara to call the fans’ abandonment “a message that comes loud and clear.”
If Wellington Mara were alive it is quite possible than this meltdown would not have happened. But if he were alive yesterday, with the fans leaving near the beginning of the 4th quarter, with the fans twice chanting to Fire Coughlin, with the team completely giving up on the game… it is quite obvious that this would have sent him into the locker room to rip these players to shreds. Just like in 2003, when Fassel was the lame duck and Mara came in to a hushed locker room, to let them know that many of them would not be around next year… he would have done the same thing to a lame duck Coughlin.
The Giants have one more game remaining, but that is a mirage. You have a decent argument that Mara would not visit the locker room until the end of the season, but when the players give up on the coach, the owners and the fans, Mara’s words come out.
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