Tom Coughlin could be coaching for his job Sunday afternoon in Buffalo. It's not that simple, of course, and certainly no win-or-else ultimatum has been handed down from his Giants bosses. But it would be easy to connect the dots from a Giants loss on Sunday to a firing squad in early January.
A defeat all but guarantees the Giants an 0-3 finish to the regular season (unless you really think there's a chance they're going to beat the Patriots, who most likely will be 15-0 after Sunday's game against Miami). And 0-3, followed by a first-round loss in the playoffs - if the Giants even make the playoffs at 9-7 - is exactly the "but- what-if" scenario that Giants ownership had feared. That's the reason they didn't offer Coughlin a contract extension when the team was 9-4 and needed just one win to clinch a third straight playoff berth, according to multiple team sources. As one said, "You just never know" what will happen in the last few games of the year. Continue
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