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Coughlin Clears Up Rolle’s Role

by John Fennelly on March 6th, 2010 at 4:29 pm

Don’t know if it was our article that Tom Coughlin was responding to this morning, but he made sure everyone understood why the Giants signed Antrel Rolle yesterday.

“The idea that this is associated with the Kenny Phillips situation is incorrect,” Coughlin said. “We needed to answer some questions in terms of the safety position. This move puts us in a position now where we feel this can be a really strong part of our team. We needed to really solidify and help the safety position based on last year’s experience. That’s the reason this objective was so important to us.”

Thank you.  We were further straightened out when the coach stated that Rolle and Philips were “interchangeable” players, meaning they could end up playing wherever they fit best.

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  • BigJohn

    I figured this was TC’s and Reese’s idea all along. I think they plan on and hope to have Phillips and Rolle in the lineup together for many seasons to come. However, if Phillips or Rolle get hurt they have the other to rely on. Hopefully with this signing we will never again have to see the safety position being played by the likes of Aaron Rouse and CC Brown….At worst will hopefully have Phillips and MJ or Rolle and MJ in the lineup.