New York Giants Hire Kevin Gilbride, Jr.: As had been speculated (see “News and Notes” from February 13), Kevin Gilbride, Jr. has been named the Giants’ new offensive quality control coach. Gilbride is the son of Giants’ offensive coordinator Kevin Gilbride. Gilbride, Jr. replaces Sean Ryan, who the Giants recently promoted to wide receivers coach.
Gilbride, Jr. served as the wide receivers coach of Temple University for the past three years.
“Kevin is very aggressive and a very energetic young coach,” Head Coach Tom Coughlin said. “Quite frankly, I investigated him three or four years ago. He’s busted his tail to get where he is. He was a graduate assistant at Syracuse, so I knew about him there and the coaches were very favorably impressed by what he was able to accomplish there.”
“In this day and age, your coaches are relying on the quality control coaches’ ability to take off segments and situations (from game tapes) before they can start to game plan,” said Coughlin. “It’s a grinder’s job. It’s very much a behind-the-scenes job. They are responsible for self-scout. They are responsible for the next opponent and he has already started, because very shortly we will be on our divisional opponents. During the season, he has to provide us with self-scout information on a Monday night, get the next opponent off and he runs the scout squad. And when you talk about professional football, and you talk about the quality of your practices, those scout squads have to be run to perfection.”
“Kevin happens to be an early morning guy and I like that,” Coughlin said. “He’s here very early and he works until late at night. He wants to learn and he wants to be a successful coach. This is a great opportunity for him.”
“In terms of getting into coaching,” said Gilbride, Sr., “my wife and I did everything we could to discourage, not encourage, because we know it’s a challenging life and there are a lot of potential pitfalls. He was adamant that he wanted to get into it and he’s been very fortunate. He made a decision he wanted to try pro football. And again our efforts to discourage were met with non-compliance. He was fortunate enough to get the interview with Tom, and Tom was impressed enough with his knowledge of the computer and the things that he’ll have to do in the quality control position to bring him on board.”
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