Coughlin to fans, team: You gotta believe!

Written By Unknown on Selasa, 16 September 2014 | 18.18

The Hall of Fame coach does not kick his team when it is down, does not allow his belief in a team that never imagined another 0-2 start to waver one iota.

He rallied the team and the town from 0-2 and won a Super Bowl in 2007. Last year he failed. And so Tom Coughlin's message to his team Monday, and to a gloomy, pessimistic Big Blue Nation, is this: Keep the faith. Don't give up on us. Believe.

And on Monday in an auditorium inside the Quest Diagnostics Training Center, he delivered a passionate plea aimed at rallying and uniting a team and its anguished fans.

"I would like in an ideal world, that they would stay and remain as positive and as upbeat as they possibly can because of the way they affect the young men that are on the field," Coughlin said. "They are fans. They bleed, they live and die the circumstances. … We need them, we need them to be upbeat. I thought they were great [Sunday], I thought the noise was terrific, I thought they were into it.

"We didn't get it done. Well, perhaps we can learn something from that, and continue to go on and fight and accept the next challenge, and be even more hardened as to what has to be done, become closer together and bond together as a team, and maybe if we come out and play like that, then maybe the fans will continue to grow and to respond and be energetic about what we're trying to accomplish on the field.

"I don't see this as being a reason for them not to be. If they understand what our task and our goal is to toughen up. Let's go. Come on. Stop beating ourselves. This is professional football. Make the plays necessary to win and do it on a consistent basis and eliminate these bizarre events which take the heart right out of you.

"So I hope they'll respond to the fact that I'm counting on the competitors that sit in the audience when I speak to our team: I'm counting on them to accept the challenge, and not feel sorry for ourselves and realize the work that has to be done in order for us to win, and I hope the fans will join in in that exact feeling."

The Hall of Fame coach knows that Ya Gotta Believe in your team, especially at a time when the Big Blue sky is falling.

"I believe! I'm a believer!" Coughlin said, sounding more like a fire-and-brimstone preacher. "Put me up at the top, OK? Blame me for the problems, put me at the top as far as getting this thing done. And I think they can go do it."

I asked Coughlin what face, what demeanor he wanted to present earlier to his team.

"First of all, always honest, always upfront, always how it happened and why it happened," he said, "and then, the second thing is always this, look — it's correctable, it can be done, we've got to have everybody on the same page, we got to have more emotion, and more work and more effort right off the bat right here to get it done. And this is the time to do it."

You believe in this team?

"Absolutely," Coughlin said. "Absolutely."

So much of the hopes and dreams for a fast start, even with Eli Manning forced to learn a new offense, even with all the new faces, rested on Coughlin.

With another season hanging too soon by a thread, in danger of spiraling into an abyss, the Giants need Coughlin to do his best work and remind us why he is a Hall of Fame coach.

Given the circumstances, and the real possibility the talent level has been grossly overrated by the powers-that-be, this may be akin to trying to punch your way out of a Big Blue paper bag.

Coughlin will fight to the death and try anyway.

"He got on us, but challenged us to get better," Manning told The Post.

One player characterized Coughlin as "optimistic" in the team meeting. "Assertive" was the word used by another.

"He's seen so much football over his years, and he's seen so many great teams come by that he's not going to jump the gun or throw in the hat on the second game," Spencer Paysinger said. "He knows we're capable of playing better."

When asked if a Hall of Fame coach can make a difference right now, Paysinger said, "Of course, of course."

"We get our passion and everything from him," he said. "If we saw our head coach yelling, pointing fingers and throwing in the hat, what would that do for the rest of the team? I'm just happy we have a coach that we can stand by, that we can hang our hat on, because at the end of the day, that's our coach and we know who we're playing for."

The 2014 Giants have looked so raggedy and fundamentally unsound and disjointed, except for flashes, that Coughlin himself must be wondering whether they are still listening to him.

They are.

"Coach has got to keep our spirits up, but also know we got to make improvements," Manning said, "and we got to keep grinding, we got to work smarter, and we got to work better. The way we've been playing is not acceptable, and we got to make the improvements to get out of this."

Victor Cruz wanted the call. Dropped the ball.

"Catch the ball," Coughlin said. "That's what you're paid for. Professional wide receivers, you got to make the plays."

Coughlin, of course, hasn't forgotten how to coach overnight. He's still fully engaged. He's still firing quotes from Patton and Churchill in the meeting room. He still bleeds red, white, and more than anything, blue.

He rallied the team and the town from 0-2 and won a Super Bowl in 2008.

Now is the time for him to grab this team and this season by the throat and field a team that is a reflection of him. It's too early to stop believing that he can't.


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