(06-07-2017, 04:55 PM)jagibelieve Wrote: I think that what some people fail to realize is that Tom Coughlin probably has very little to do with the football aspect of players.  He's not the head coach and he's not the general manager.  He's in an executive position and is hopefully not micro-managing things.

I'll take what he tells the press regarding players, positions, etc. with a grain of salt, especially when they haven't actually had a real practice yet.  His comments most likely come from reports from Marrone and others.

That is true, but the force of TC's personality is such that he will surely have an impact.  And I'm sure Marrone will be willingly going to him for advice and feedback.  True, he won't have the game day impact he had as a head coach but he will absolutely have an impact with overall strategy and scheme.  To very badly paraphrase: you can put a coach behind a desk but you'll never take the coach out of the executive.

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