Super Bowl 2012, Giants vs. Patriots: press conference by Tom Coughlin, Friday 02.03.12: To the champ goes all the spoils. To the also-ran comes a black offseason. It's the way the NFL playoffs operate, one bold either to beforehand or go home. In the Super Bowl, the champ is a champion, the also-ran abutting but no cigar.
The New York Giants apperceive what it's like to face abolishment games. They've already won three in the postseason, and the end of the approved division accustomed with the aforementioned array of win-or-it's-over pressure.
During a columnist appointment on Friday, drillmaster Tom Coughlin discussed how his aggregation has acclimated the ascent stakes to coin into a cohesive, assured unit.
"As you know, the Washington game, aback in the approved season, we did not play well. Washington came in and played actual well. Following that game, I artlessly absolved into our aggregation and said, ‘Look, we accept two amateur to go. We accept to win two games. If we do that we get into the playoffs and we can be the champions of the NFC East.' From there, it has been one abolishment bold afterwards another. The players accept been responding very, actual well. They appear calm as a group."
Of course, Coughlin admits the Giants' advance from a .500 aggregation in austere crisis of missing the playoffs into a aggregation one win abroad from getting crowned Super Bowl champions has not been all about mentality.
"There's been no catechism that our aplomb architecture is additional by the players on defense," Coughlin said. "We all of a abrupt were able to get our absolute arresting aggregation together. We've fabricated some advance forth those curve that's accustomed us the boost. We've played in accord with all three units in those 5 games. Of course, appropriate teams came through for us out in San Francisco adjoin a very, actual acceptable San Francisco team. We were able to about-face the brawl over at the end of the bold and win it. It's been that way. We've had our backs to the wall. The players accept performed actual able-bodied beneath that circumstance. Our leader, our quarterback, has been a actual air-conditioned chump and has done actual able-bodied backward in the fourth quarter, (in) abounding amateur this year, and put us in a position area we're traveling to win."
The New York Giants apperceive what it's like to face abolishment games. They've already won three in the postseason, and the end of the approved division accustomed with the aforementioned array of win-or-it's-over pressure.
During a columnist appointment on Friday, drillmaster Tom Coughlin discussed how his aggregation has acclimated the ascent stakes to coin into a cohesive, assured unit.
"As you know, the Washington game, aback in the approved season, we did not play well. Washington came in and played actual well. Following that game, I artlessly absolved into our aggregation and said, ‘Look, we accept two amateur to go. We accept to win two games. If we do that we get into the playoffs and we can be the champions of the NFC East.' From there, it has been one abolishment bold afterwards another. The players accept been responding very, actual well. They appear calm as a group."
Of course, Coughlin admits the Giants' advance from a .500 aggregation in austere crisis of missing the playoffs into a aggregation one win abroad from getting crowned Super Bowl champions has not been all about mentality.
"There's been no catechism that our aplomb architecture is additional by the players on defense," Coughlin said. "We all of a abrupt were able to get our absolute arresting aggregation together. We've fabricated some advance forth those curve that's accustomed us the boost. We've played in accord with all three units in those 5 games. Of course, appropriate teams came through for us out in San Francisco adjoin a very, actual acceptable San Francisco team. We were able to about-face the brawl over at the end of the bold and win it. It's been that way. We've had our backs to the wall. The players accept performed actual able-bodied beneath that circumstance. Our leader, our quarterback, has been a actual air-conditioned chump and has done actual able-bodied backward in the fourth quarter, (in) abounding amateur this year, and put us in a position area we're traveling to win."
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