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Ladies and Gentelman Your New DC

by David Jacks on March 20th, 2009 at 1:54 pm

Tom Rock of Newsday takes a look at Giants new defensive coordinator Bill Sheridan. LB Danny sheridanClark  describes Sheridan as such; “One of the most intelligent football minds I’ve been around. I’m sure he’ll put his own spin on the defense we have in place and make us better. I don’t question his ability to take us to the next level. He’s an intelligent guy who really knows football, and he’ll put us in the best position to make plays.”

DE Justin Tuck had this to say “I know what type of guy he is and we’ll be OK. He has his own set of rules for doing things and it’s different from Coach Spags, but we’ll get used to it and once we do everything will be off and running.”

Tuck and Clark go on to say that Sheridan is less animated then Coach Spagnuolo, more analytical, more cognitive, and less of a rah-rah guy. Personally I love the rah-rah coaches, while it is not an indicator of how good a coach they will be, it seems a lot easier to love the coaches who can’t contain themselves. More importantly, it seems easier to hate the stoic coaches who “seem” not to care. Which is why I was always bothered when the NY media ripped coach Coughlin for his sideline histrionics. Personally I love seeing a coach lose it, or get overly excited, in fact my 2 favorite images of a coach is watching Lou Holtz and Bill Parcells grab players by their facemasks . I am not saying guys like Sheridan, Belichick or Joe Torre don’t care, but I prefer seeing it in their faces and bodies, probably because I care so much and find it impossible to can’t contain myself while watching.

So if it were up to you would you have a rah rah guy or a more anlaytical coach. I suppose all that matters is results, but for boring off-season  sake just asnwer the question.

  • Koko

    We’ll see… I sort of wanted Waffle (Waufle) time, mainly because of his emotional side.

    But yeah, at the end I don’t think it matters. It’s just easier to hate a quite guy, like you said. The defense is setup for Sheridan, so if the defense fails, there is a place to point.