Tom Coughlin’s exit press conference was the best thing ever

Tom Coughlin ‘stepped down’ as the New York Giants head coach this week, and his exit presser probably  just secured him another coaching job. 

The term fire and brimstone is tossed out there to define someone who steps up and just relentlessly savages someone for one reason or another. But Tom Coughlin took fire and brimstone to a whole new level in his exit press conference on Tuesday when he grabbed the New York media by the throat and repeatedly punched them all in the groin.

There’s literally no other way to put it, as Coughlin went out on his own terms and at one point dropped the mic when he just stormed off. He very much didn’t look like a head coach who A) was done coaching and, B) was anything other than recently fired.

Coughlin wasn’t born with enough middle fingers for his exit presser with the Giants. It was vintage, it was amazing and it was the best thing ever.

Does that sound like a man who kindly gave up his job and saw himself out the door?

For some reason, NFL franchises like to get precious when it comes to moving on from coaches who aren’t complete garbage — and Coughlin very much as not the latter. The Niners ‘mutually parted ways’ with Jim Harbaugh, even though we all know he was fired. Ditto with the Coughlin saga in New York, as Giants brass would have liked this to have happened last year and there was no way they were going to have their head coach back.

Coughlin had the look of a man who was just fired at his presser, but the fire in his belly clearly hadn’t been extinguished. If anything, the ferocious way that Coughlin exited the Giants job will almost surely get him another job somewhere in the NFL. The guy won two Super Bowls in New York and the failures the team as had weren’t completely his fault.

That being said, there’s no guarantee that he’ll move on to another job, but you’d be hard pressed to think that he’s finished coaching. He’s 69-years old but the Giants basically firing Coughlin after 12 years in the job clearly awoke something in the head coach that another franchise might benefit greatly from.

Either way, we’re all winners after Coughlin turned in an all-timer as he verbally threw up the double bird on his way out the door.