Pretty sure Coughlin relaxed his no nonsense approach before that second ring.
He said if he was going to get fired he would have fun during his last season.
They ended up winning a SB.
https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/f...ticle-1.277749
But there seems little doubt that the Giants would not be getting fitted for their rings this week if Coughlin didn't make some serious changes to his approach last season.
His kinder and softer approach around his players seemed contrived at first, then very natural. He knew he was on the shortest of leashes. Ownership had given him a no-confidence one-year extension. And he revealed Wednesday that his mentality was that if he was going down, he was going to enjoy the ride.
He surely knew that if the Giants fired him, ending a chaotic four-year run, that it was not very likely he would ever get another NFL head coaching job. If anything, he would have to return to college.
So he said he took this approach going into 2007: "If this is the last year I am going to coach, I'm going to have fun with it. I'm going to enjoy it. I'm going to enjoy the players. I'm going to extend to them in a way I think they can understand that I do have great appreciation for what their jobs are, what their roles are."
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