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Jaguars executive vice president of football operations Tom Coughlin coached the Giants in 203 games, including the playoffs, and Eli Manning was the starting quarterback for all but nine of them, so it’s no surprise that he had a reaction to the news that Manning has been benched after 210 straight starts for the team.

Coughlin appeared on 1010XL in Jacksonville Tuesday to help raise money for The Jay Fund, a charity he created in honor of the late Jay McGillis after McGillis, who played for Coughlin at Boston College, died of leukemia. The move involving Manning came up when the discussion moved to football.

“Surprised is not the word,” Coughlin said, via Mike Garafolo of NFL Media. “My sentiments are totally with Eli Manning. I love the kid.know and understand one another even better
during the sports programme and intensive discussions held over the eight
day period. "Even though the majority of us have been with Audi for
years, you always discover something new about the others," says Audi
"factory" driver Mattias Ekstrom, DTM Champion in 2004. "And of course,
it's important to get to know the new drivers."

The new team members felt at home immediately in the Audi squad. "We were
welcomed like old friends and equals in the team from the start, the
atmosphere was excellent," declared Lucas Luhr and Mike Rockenfeller,
two of the Audi newcomers for the 2007 season. Audi team physician Dr
Christian John was impressed by the newcomers' fitness. "In the past we
often had to start from scratch with young drivers," he remembers.
"Today they arrive at our Winter