Giants special teams coordinator McGaughey believes progress is being made

Thomas McGaughey has been around the Giants long enough to remember the chants. He even mimicked them briefly on Thursday, playfully repeating a phrase that once echoed through Giants Stadium and MetLife Stadium in ridicule of Eli Manning.

"Now, his freaking name is up in the rafters after two Super Bowls," the special teams coordinator said.

McGaughey was trying to explain how quickly things can change, not only in the NFL, but in this market in particular.

"We’ve seen this city flip," he said of how it loves to embrace winners.

Over the past month, we’ve seen it go the other way and unravel at a startling pace too. The Giants have lost five straight games without being competitive in any of…