Do the captains – Eli, Tuck, Blackburn – have the personalities to lead this team?
Different people lead in different ways. I wasn’t a fiery type. In fact, before games, you could find me in the training room. Michael Strahan was that guy, Antonio Pierce was that guy who were vocal and loud and aggressive, but you need both types. So, like I said, it’s hard to find those guys until they gain credibility as playmakers. Jim Skipper, my rookie year, he used to tell me all of these things and I think that most of them stuck with me – one of the things that he always said was, “I have no prejudice against any player except for non-ballers.” And when you find a baller, that’s when you find a guy who can be a leader for your team and I became a leader because I started playing well. Early in my career I wasn’t one. Q: You’ve said that you think Coughlin is losing control in the locker room. How does he fix that? A: I don’t know if Tom – I’m not in the locker room, so I don’t know. I don’t talk to the players as much as I used to, so I don’t know what the feeling is. Tom can
