Larry Csonka stumps for Tom Coughlin to Dolphins

While it’s nothing close to the political stumping for re-election campaigns, Larry Csonka has thrown his opinion out to the Miami Dolphins. He endorses Tom Coughlin for the teams next head coach.

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Coughlin makes a ton of sense. Granted he is a three to five year coach at best. Miami won’t get 12 years from him let alone ten. They only need four good ones. Four really good ones. I’m not talking Super Bowl here either. I’m talking change. Real change. The kind of change that can stick with an organization for a long time. That’s what Coughlin brings.

In Miami Coughlin would have to work with Mike Tannenbaum and Chris Grier but I can assure you neither of those men would treat TC the way Jerry Reese did in New York. Yes, Coughlin is an old guy but he isn’t old school. He is smart, tough, disciplined, and methodical. He doesn’t earn respect because he did that decades ago. Players love him and want to play hard for him. After his “step-down” NYG players said publicly they let the coach down. Eli Manning was choking back tears at the press conference.

No one was choking back anything when Philbin was fired. Or Sparano. Or Cameron. Or for that matter Dave Wannstedt and Nick Saban. Miami needs a coach that can bring real quality change. Coughlin and to a degree Mike Shanahan bring so much experience to the forefront that Miami will likely never have this chance again.

Csonka played for Coughlin in college back in the 60’s, yes he has been coaching that long in some form.

"On the other hand, an EXPERIENCED head coach, such as Coughlin, who has done it before and is current with personnel and what’s happening in the League, could and would make it happen much sooner! – via Larry Csonka’s blog."

Miami is interviewing candidates in New York this week. Anthony Lynn the running backs coach in Buffalo is on tap today. Tomorrow will see Adam Gase and on Friday Dan Campbell and Doug Marrone. There are likely a few more being shuffled back and forth as well. Tom Coughlin is not, as of yet, on that list. We will see if the Dolphins reach out to him.