Tom Coughlin and Greg Schiano Have Post Game Argument
Our friends over at SportsGrid grabbed this video of New York Giants coach Tom Coughlin yelling at Tampa Bay coach Greg Schiano during their post game handshake in the Giants 41–34 victory over the Bucs.
The argument was over this play in the final seconds when Eli Manning was knocked over while trying to take a knee.
I give Coughlin some credit, Schiano is one giant and scary dude. It just shows you how out of his mind he is. This handshake didn’t have the school-girl drama like the infamous Harbaugh/Schwartz one from last year but I’m sure everyone involved is looking forward to their next game against each other in the future.
Yahoo.com has some of the post-game press conference quotes from both head coaches.
“I don’t think you do that,” Coughlin told the media after the game, per Ralph Vacchiano of the New York Daily News. “You don’t do that in this league. Not only that, you jeopardize the offensive line, you jeopardize the quarterback. Thank goodness we didn’t get anybody hurt — that I know of. A couple of linemen were late getting in.”
Coughlin said that his players told him that the idea to scrum came from Schiano, but “I don’t know. I don’t know that. You’d have to ask them.”
Schiano was unmoved. “I don’t know if that’s not something that’s done in the National Football League,’’ he said. “What I do with our football team is that we fight until they tell us, ‘game over.’ And there’s nothing dirty about it, there’s nothing illegal about it. We crowd the ball like a sneak defense and try to knock it loose.
“If people watched Rutgers, they would know that’s what we do at the end of a game. We’re not going to quit, that’s just the way I coach and teach our players. If some people are upset about it, that’s just the way it goes. I don’t have any hesitation. That’s the way we play. We play clean, hard football until they tell us the game is over.’”
