In the immediate aftermath of the Giants’ 21-20 loss to the Chargers last Sunday evening, one thing was abundantly clear: Tom Coughlin made a few mistakes.
The head coach was willing to admit as much on Wednesday.
“I thought it was perfectly clear, but let me express it so no longer does anyone else receive any type of blame,” Coughlin said, according to the New York Daily News. “The blame goes right here. That’s all.”
The decisions in question were largely related to the Giants’ settling for a field goal in the game’s closing minutes. San Diego subsequently drove the length of the field to score the game-winning touchdown.
“I’m responsible for all of the decisions that are made with our football team,” Coughlin said. “The green zone decisions are my responsibility. They are nobody else’s. No one else made a mistake. The quarterback did not make a mistake. The decision was mine.”
Offensive coordinator Kevin Gilbride wasn’t surprised his head coach was shouldering the blame.
“That’s good to hear,” Gilbride told the News, “but it’s up to us as the guys who work underneath him to make sure that we carry out that message.”
