NFL Giants President & CEO John Mara and Chair & Exec VP Steve Tisch following the season will “formulate a plan” for ’16, and they "could opt to keep" coach Tom Coughlin, telling fans and media this “was an organizational failure and aggressive steps will be taken to right what has gone wrong, but not through mass firings,” according to Paul Schwartz of the N.Y. POST. Mara would “take plenty of flak for that, but he’s the boss and those who grumble are not likely to storm the gates.” GM Jerry Reese’s situation “gets trickier,” as the Giants “have not fired a general manager in 36 years.” There is “no one to hand the job off to this time.” Next in the chain of command is Senior VP/Player Personnel Chris Mara, but there are “not enough checks and balances when elevating a member of the Mara family into the general manager spot to make that move possible.” Reese is “expected to stay put” (N.Y. POST, 12/30). SNY’s Gregg Giannotti said of Coughlin, “Let's never forget that there’s two Super Bowl Championships there, even if we’ve come to the end there. A fan base is always going to have faith with the guy that allowed them to raise that Lombardi (Trophy)” (“Loud Mouths,” SNY, 12/29). But SNY’s Sal Licata said, "It’s time for a change, it’s been time, it’s long overdue. What are we going to do? Just because there’s no one with Tom Coughlin’s pedigree that’s out there, you’re going to stick with him another year and go at it again and have the same result?” Licata continued, “It’s not just firing Coughlin, it is also firing Jerry Reese, because if you fire Coughlin and keep Reese, that does nothing. You clean house and get them both out and start fresh” (“Daily News Live,” SNY, 12/29).
