It is a broken franchise that has lost its way, forgotten how to win, and now that Tom Coughlin has stepped down, the men who run the New York Football Giants — co-owners John Mara and Steve Tisch and general manager Jerry Reese — face a crossroads moment in the franchise’s history that requires them to step up as corporate Eli Mannings at the end of Super Bowls.
Coughlin, remember, was already in place in the autumn of 2005 when the beloved owners of the Giants, Wellington Mara and Bob Tisch, passed away a month apart.