Tom Coughlin Friday Conference Call Notes
Tom Coughlin spoke with the media via conference call today.
Q: How do you feel about the defense going into the season opener? Are you where you want to be?
A: I think we made good progress last night as far as getting where we want to be. A couple of things that I saw that I mentioned to you before is that we did get the outstanding pressure out of the linebacker position last night and we did get a big hit on the quarterback out of Michael Boley. That was a nice step forward. We still haven’t gotten there from the secondary although Terrell was very close and I think Phillips may be a guy that we can count on to get there and get home to the quarterback in that situation as well. I think that we are making progress. I think that we rose up against the run and did a pretty good job against the run. They had 73 yards, 2.2 per rush, so I think we’re making progress along those lines. We do have to go ahead and continue to not allow the big plays and we did make a nice play – Antrel’s interception was off of a deep ball intended for Randy Moss and we made the interception there, which was a good, positive thing, so I think that the defense is improving. We still have improvement to go. We’d like to get a couple of guys back that are not out there so that they can make a contribution as well but I think we’re heading in the right direction.
