Quote from: MightyGiants on December 22, 2015, 08:00:48 AM
Until last year I would have given Spags a pass as he had little to work with. However I look at what happened to the Cowboys last year. Prior to the start of the season it was thought the Cowboys would have the worst defense in the league due to a glaring lack of talent. Monte Kiffin comes in and makes a respectable defense with what he had (he really didn't have a true pass rusher for instance). Guys playing for him tended to have banner or career years. In my mind that's what marks a great DC.
Spags on the other hand hasn't managed to coax any of the defensive players to have a career year. Not DRC, not Prince, not Kennard, certainly not Moore and so on. So I would say Spags is at best an average DC for what it's worth. Historically Spags seems to have had more failures than successes both as a DC and as a head coach so if Coughlin does go I don't see a need to keep Spags.
Didn't hurt that he had Strahan, Osi and Tuck at his disposal! Talent can hide a lot of deficiencies much like OBJ is doing with the offense.