Would Tom Coughlin be a Good Fit With 49ers?
It was a surprise to many recently when former Giants coach Tom Coughlin surfaced as a candidate to be the 49ers' next head coach.After the firing of Jim Tomsula following a 5-11 season, San Francisco had quickly conducted interviews with the likes of Chip Kelly, Dirk Koetter, Hue Jackson, Anthony Lynn and John DeFilippo, and the names of Mike Holmgren and Mike Shanahan also had been thrown into the hat. But Coughlin, the longtime head coach in New York who took his team to two Super Bowl rings, was a startling addition. Coughlin, 69, is much older than the other coaches interviewed and was known as an outspoken and strong personality as coach of the Giants and Jaguars in a 20-year NFL career in which he's gone 170-150 in the regular season with seven seasons of 10 or more wins, nine trips to the postseason and a 19-12 playoff mark.It didn't seem that Coughlin would be a good match with young CEO Jed York and general manager Trent Baalke, who had problems with another strong-personality head coach, Jim Harbaugh.That still may be the case. Coughlin may be too hard-edged for York-Baalke, or they may not like his philosophy or methods. That will be determined after Baalke's first...
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