Why did Tom Coughlin retire?

Jaguars owner Shad Khan fired Coughlin, 73, as executive vice president of football operations.

Thomas Richard Coughlin is a former American football coach and executive. He was the head coach for the New York Giants from 2004 to 2015.

He led the Giants to victory in Super Bowl XLII and Super Bowl XLVI, both times against the New England Patriots.

Coughlin was born in Waterloo, New York in 1946, and played football and basketball in high school. He once played a high school basketball game against Jim Boeheim, who played for Lyons High School at the time.

He was mentored by Bill Parcells while Coughlin was on Parcells’ Giants staff as wide receivers coach. Like his mentor, Coughlin is known as a stern disciplinarian and for his meticulous attention to detail, earning him the nickname “Colonel Coughlin”.

Coughlin’s first head coaching job was at the Rochester Institute of Technology from 1970 to 1973.

He then returned to his alma mater where he was eventually promoted to offensive coordinator, a position he also held at Boston College where he coached Doug Flutie.

In January 2017, it was revealed that Coughlin had been re-hired by the Jacksonville Jaguars to be the team’s executive vice president for football operations. In July 2017, Coughlin was awarded the Arents Award, which is Syracuse University’s highest alumni honor.

Following his resignation as head coach of the Giants, Coughlin returned to the Jaguars as executive vice president of football operations. In this post, he had the final say in football matters, with general manager David Caldwell serving in an advisory role.

On July 30, 2020, Coughlin broke four ribs, punctured a lung, and needed stitches on his head, after getting into a biking accident with a fellow biker.

In January 2018, the Jaguars reached the AFC Championship for the first time since he was the head coach of the Jaguars in 1999. On February 23, 2018, the Jaguars extended Coughlin’s contract through 2021.