Super Bowl coaches: friendly rivals and sticklers for detail
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Under Belichick, the Patriots are undefeated this season. With Coughlin, the Giants won a record 10 games on the road.
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How does a veteran coach transform his less-than-glowing reputation? In the words of one NFL lifer, 'Just win, baby!'
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Almost shadowed by Eli Manning in pressureÂs spotlight is the man with the most to win or lose by the quarterbackÂs performances: Tom Coughlin, the head coach.
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Joe Gibbs and Bill Parcells face each other for the first time since 1990 when the Washington Redskins (1-1) host the Dallas Cowboys (1-1) on Monday night, renewing a rivalry of two extremely successful coaches who are very similar &#151; yet so different.
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By todayÂs model, an elite college football coach is only one mediocre season away from being fired. Just ask MiamiÂs Larry Coker or AlabamaÂs Mike Shula.
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The majority of NFL assistant coaches are anonymous figures, blending into the sideline among a sea of players. But not this one.
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As a trash talker, Bill Belichick is undefeated. One trash-talking game, one win. Put that loudmouth with the Mr. T haircut, Chad Johnson, in his place last week. Good going, Coach Double-B. You told the world that Johnson was a fraud, that he pushed off, that he probably was paying off the officials. You intimated that the Patriots would teach ...
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PHOENIX - You think you know this guy: A former Phillips Andover football player who went on to coach for the New York Giants and Cleveland Browns before he helped guide the New England Patriots to three Super Bowl championships and establish himself as one of the NFL's great football minds.
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Wanted: one football coach. Prior head-coaching experience required (fool us once, shame on us). Must be able to win big yesterday.
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The seven new head coaches hired around the league this past offseason included a Hall of Famer (Joe Gibbs), a two-time AFC championship game participant (Tom Coughlin) and a two-time NFC title-game entrant (Dennis Green).
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Patience has never been highly rated as a virtue in the NFL. That's especially true among owners, who tend to change coaches almost as often as they do underwear.
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The NFL coaches whose job security is under the most intense scrutiny these days are the Cleveland Browns' Butch Davis and the New Orleans Saints' Jim Haslett.
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Tom Coughlin wanted to talk about the future with his team. But before he did that, the New York Giants coach told his team the feeling he had 17 years ago when he was an assistant on a Giants team coached by Bill Parcells that won the Super Bowl.
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Super Bowl coaches Bill Belichick and Tom Coughlin should not have too much trouble understanding each other's mindsets because the pair kick-started their careers working together.
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The two men were linked by football and friendship, faith and success. But Tony Dungy and Lovie Smith also shared a broader distinction: being the first African-Americans to coach a team to the Super Bowl.
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Rarely have two men as close as Chicago's Lovie Smith, left, and Indianapolis' Tony Dungy coached against each other in the Super Bowl and, as is their way, both are taking it all in stride.
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The Washington Redskins have the last head coaching opening in the NFL, which has fueled talk that the hire could be an assistant on one of the clubs in Super Bowl XLII.