PALM BEACH, Fla. — Tom Coughlin still has a Super Bowl bounce in his step.
That was obvious from his Florida-sunny demeanor Wednesday morning, when the Giants coach boasted about the team’s second Super Bowl win in five years while taking a few uncharacteristic digs at the crosstown Jets and their plans for Tim Tebow.
Apparently still smarting from Rex Ryan’s proclamation last year that New York was now “a Jets town,” Coughlin fired back during the annual NFC coaches breakfast at the league meetings.
“You know who the world champions are,” Coughlin said, breaking into a wide smile. “Whether we’re on the front page every day or not, it’s not that important to me. New Yorkers know who won the Super Bowl.”
That’s about as close as Coughlin will come to a Ryan-like boast, but Big Blue’s normally taciturn boss couldn’t resist in the wake of yet another headline grab by the Jets that was seemingly timed to a Giants Super Bowl win.
The acquisition of Tebow is this year’s Brett Favre signing, and try as he might, Coughlin finally found it too tempting not to second-guess it.
After initially saying the Tebow trade was “none of my business” and describing the NFL’s most polarizing player in glowing terms, Coughlin scratched his head at Ryan’s purported plan to replace Mark Sanchez with Tebow in the Wildcat formation as many as 20 snaps a game.
It was clear any coach who ever tries to do that with Eli Manning won’t be named Tom Coughlin.
“I don’t have a lot of experience with [quarterback rotations or shuttling], because that’s not ever the way we’ve done it,” Coughlin said. “Once you start to develop your [starting quarterback], you like him with the ball in his hand as much as you possibly can.”
Coughlin also had financial reasons to be in such a good mood yesterday. He confirmed the Post’s exclusive report Wednesday that co-owner John Mara expects to complete a contract extension with his 65-year-old coach before June.
Coughlin added to Mara’s comments that his deal — which currently is set to expire after the upcoming season — will have at least two years added to it.
“It’ll get done,” Coughlin said. “I’m not overly concerned with that part.”
Coughlin is so invigorated by the Giants’ championship run that he repeated his recent assertion that he hopes to coach until his mid-70s.
“I do condition and stay in pretty good shape. No matter how many years you sign a contract, it’s a one-year deal. I’m going to go forth with the idea of enjoying each season as it comes and rallying the troops. I want to be a motivator for our staff, our players and our organization.’’
Coughlin currently is the oldest coach in the NFL, but that could soon change if his former boss Bill Parcells, 70, comes out of retirement a third time to take over as Saints interim coach during Sean Payton’s year-long Bountygate suspension.
Coughlin was amused by the reports, which picked up steam Tuesday when Parcells played golf in nearby Jupiter, Fla., with Payton and Saints general manager Mickey Loomis.
Parcells’ Hall of Fame candidacy would be delayed five more years if he decides to coach again, and Coughlin said he thinks the impact on Parcells’ legacy would be a factor.
“Knowing Bill and how calculating and how he thinks everything through, [the candidacy delay] would be one thing I’m sure he would think about,” Coughlin said.
What would he think of Parcells back on the sidelines? On that subject, Coughlin had no zingers or witty retorts.
“I’m staying out of that one,” he said. “Ask me after he decides.”
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