Coughlin Comments on Staff Changes
Tom Coughlin said he talked to “a lot of coaches” and other interested parties before deciding to promote WR coach Sean Ryan to QB coach and Kevin Gilbride, Jr as Ryan’s replacement.
From Michael Eisen of Giants.com
“Continuity is important,” Coughlin said. “It’s not that I don’t think there are some talented people out there. But I do think that these two are very talented and the best approach we could possibly take would be to continue to support our players at those positions with people who are products of the system.
“You would like to take people that are in the system, that understand the system, understand how we work, are very comfortable with the organizational scheme that we use in preparation. What we have here in Sean Ryan and Kevin Gilbride were two young coaches, one being Sean, who had started out as a quality control coach, was very impressive in that role, and then was elevated to the wide receiver position, in which he did an outstanding job.
Young Kevin Gilbride came in here as a quality control offensive assistant and his energy level, his enthusiasm, his overall optimism, the positive way that he attacks every job, and the importance of how well he performed his job – which makes everybody else’s job easier on offense – because the information that he puts forth is accurate. I really came to the conclusion that this was best for us.”
The Giants still have not replaced assistant offensive line coach, Jack Bicknell, Jr, who left the club recently to join the Kansas City Chiefs as their offensive line coach.
