Gary Myers, New York Daily News:

Meanwhile, the news out of East Rutherford [that Ben McAdoo was going to take the Giants job] prompted the Eagles to intensify their talks with Coughlin. Best case scenario: Coughlin had wanted McAdoo to be his offensive coordinator and Steve Spagnuolo to be his defensive coordinator. McAdoo was obviously not available and he wanted to retain Spags, who was under contract to the Giants. Coughlin wanted to bring many other of his coaches from his Giants staff to Philly. Not only were they under contract and McAdoo wanted to keep them, but the feeling among Coughlin insiders was the only way the Giants would have considered releasing any of them was if Coughlin took a job outside the NFC East.

“Tom was not just going to take a job and cobble a staff together,” a Coughlin sider said Thursday. “It was not that appealing. He’s not a 38-year old coach taking his first job.”

On Thursday morning, Coughlin informed the Eagles he was withdrawing his name from consideration.

One source insisted, “The job is not that good in Philly.”

 

It should be telling that the better of the Eagles’ two apparent options – Coughlin or Pederson – was to pursue the 69-year-old who didn’t even have the energy to “cobble a staff together,” because the most sought after candidate in the equation, Ben McAdoo, decided he preferred the job in New York. Enter Doug Pederson.

Does anyone else feel like maybe the Eagles should’ve surveyed the coaching landscape before they decided to fire theirs?