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Originally Posted by DDNYjets

Check the date of the article. It is July 2011. If you are right, that means the Giants had no HC under contract from January to July of 2011.

2011 was the last year of his contract. Before the 2011 season (in July) he signed a one-year extension meaning that prior to the start of the season he would have two-years left thus avoiding lame duck status.

https://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/gi...ract-extension



http://espn.go.com/blog/nfceast/post...s-job-security

Again, it may be me, but the way the article is written, it says 1 yr extension for 2012, which means that Coughlin didn't have a contract for 2012 and rather than a multiyear extension he only got a 1 year extension.

Honestly, that's the way I remember it. He was lameduck in both SB years and got big extensions afterwards.