New York Giants assistant coach Thomas McGaughey has been one of the NFL’s top special team coordinators for over a decade but now finds himself in the precarious situation of incurring the wrath of the head coach over his unit’s inconsistent play.
On Thursday, McGaughey was asked if he was feeling any pressure from Brian Daboll, the Giants’ head coach.
Buy Giants Tickets“Pressure? That comes with the job,” said McGaughey. “That’s pressure wearing this (points to NY logo on sweatshirt), that just comes with the job. Pressure is my friend. I keep it right here in my back pocket, pressure don’t bother me.”
But what about from Daboll?
“He’s always on my (expletive). That’s part of the job,” added McGaughey. “I’m good with that. I have no issue. Like the pressure part of this, I love it. I absolutely love it because you wouldn’t want it — like, I wouldn’t want to be in any other place, and they don’t care. You want to be here in New York. You want the pressure of being the best. You want the pressure of just trying to be at your absolute best.
“That’s why we do this, we don’t do it just to be average. I don’t show up here just to be just some average coach playing on some average team in an average market. I had a choice to come here to New York. I made that choice. I knew exactly what I was getting into, so I love it, it doesn’t bother me at all.”
The Giants’ special teams have been very erratic and undisciplined through the first four weeks of the season. Penalties, blocked kicks and turnovers are all too common. McGaughey hopes to turn that trend around.
“We’ve been kind of on this roller coaster ride and we got to make sure that we’re continuously getting better. That’s the mantra of our room anyway. It’s the act of continuous improvement, right? So, we’ve just got to make sure we just keep getting better,” McGaughey said.
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