When Giants coach Tom Coughlin takes criticism, as he has during the team’s current two-game slide, one player takes it particularly personally: His son-in-law, Giants guard Chris Snee.
Asked if the Giants are playing for Coughlin’s job on Sunday, Snee bristled.
“I’m not quite sure why we would be,” Snee said. “I mean, playing for his job? Two weeks ago no one was saying that. Now two weeks later everyone changes their viewpoint of the guy? It’s absurd.”
What Snee doesn’t seem to realize is that when a team loses two games in two weeks, and those two losses lead to that team missing the playoffs, it’s not at all unusual for the coach to lose his job. Snee, however, wants people to look at the full season when evaluating his wife’s father.
“We win [Sunday against the Redskins], it’s our 10th win,” Snee said. “He wasn’t the reason that we collapsed in the fourth quarter in Philadelphia. He wasn’t the reason we played like we did in Green Bay. But somebody has to take the blame, I guess.”
And that somebody might be Coughlin, even if his son-in-law doesn’t like it.
