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New York Giants offensive coordinator\u00a0Kevin Gilbride has officially retired from football.<\/p>\n
Gilbride came to the decision after a \u00a0miserable season in New York, in which the \u00a0Giants offense finished 28th overall and Eli Manning tossed a career-high 27 interceptions.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s hard to say, \u2018It\u2019s time,\u2019\u201d Gilbride said. \u201cTo finally do it, it\u2019s a very unnatural feeling. I\u2019ve been telling my wife (Debbie) for years I was going to do it. She moved back to Rhode Island (where she helps care for a granddaughter when the Gilbrides\u2019 daughter is working), so I\u2019ve been by myself in the hotel for three or four years. I knew this was it and I was going to do it. I finally pulled the trigger. But it\u2019s difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gilbride has been an NFL coach since 1989.\u00a0He was the head coach of the Chargers from 1997-98, and had overseen the Giants’ offense since 2007. Gilbride had one year left on his contract, just like Tom Coughlin, according to a person familiar with the situation.<\/p>\n
Coughlin and Gilbride began working together in Jacksonville in 1995. There Gilbride was the offensive coordinator. When Coughlin moved to the Giants, Gilbride came along as the quarterbacks coach. Later Gilbride moved up to offensive coordinator.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve enjoyed every minute of coaching,\u201d Gilbride said. \u201cCertainly the last 10 years with the Giants has been a special time, to be part of the bringing the Super Bowls to New York and New Jersey and the Giants organization. I\u2019ve thoroughly enjoyed the development of some of the young players that we brought along, certainly starting with Eli. But (also) Steve Smith and Victor Cruz; they hadn\u2019t had a Pro Bowl receiver since 1968 and we brought two back to them. That\u2019s been fun. And I thoroughly enjoyed being part of those exciting last-minute drives that we seem to excel at. That 2011 season, we had six or seven of them, including the Super Bowl.\u201d<\/p>\n
Former Bucs OC and Giants assistant Mike Sullivan is the heavy favorite to replace Gilbride, even though\u00a0\u00a0he is currently under contract by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The team is undergoing a major overhaul after firing head coach\u00a0Greg Schiano, who brought Sullivan with him two years ago.<\/p>\n
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New York Giants offensive coordinator\u00a0Kevin Gilbride has officially retired from football. Gilbride came to the decision after a \u00a0miserable season in New York, in which the \u00a0Giants offense finished 28th overall and Eli Manning tossed a career-high 27 interceptions. It\u2019s hard to say, \u2018It\u2019s time,\u2019\u201d Gilbride said. \u201cTo finally do it, it\u2019s a very unnatural […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425],"tags":[426,569,98,216],"coauthors":[28],"class_list":["post-8092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-front","tag-kevin-gilbride","tag-new-york-giants","tag-nfl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8092"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=8092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}