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Antrel Rolle rips into Tom Couglin, wants to play for Rex Ryan

The New York Giants haven't played a game in 16 days, and already it is starting to turn into a very interesting off season.

Safeties Kenny Phillips and Antrel Rolle took the time on Miami's WQAM, the Sid Rosenberg Show, to rip into coach Tom Coughlin while promoting the idea of playing for the New York Jets instead.

"I think their chemistry might be better than ours." Rolle said. "I think they have a lot more fun than we have ... At the end of the day, yeah, we're professional athletes, we get paid a lot of money to do what we do but we're all human. No one is a robot at this level. We do have feelings, we like to have fun."

"People want to talk about Rex Ryan and this, that and the other, that team is going to war for him," Rolle added. "They would die for him."

Phillips then added more gas to the fire with these statements:

"I would love to play for a guy like Rex," Phillips told Rosenberg. "He goes to bat for his players. He'll take the blame, he allows you to be you. He's not asking you to hide. If you're a guy who likes to talk, go out and talk, as long as you back it up. His guys are playing for him and I'd love to be a part of that."

Asked, "Who is Tom Coughlin?" Phillips said, "Honestly I don't know. Still trying to figure it out. I'm going into my fourth year and I'm still trying to feel him out. He's a strict guy, sometimes he's kind of loose. He's sort of like a general, especially the way he runs his football team."

Rolle then conculuded about Coughlin:

"Honestly, that's where the problem comes with me, as a coach. When you're talking about the coaching side of things, do I feel like things are a little too uptight? Yeah, I do. If he just loosened up just a little bit, run the ship the way you want to run it, run the program the way you want to run it but let us have a little fun, because at the end of the day that's what it's all about.

"He has to understand we have a great team, we don't have guys with discipline problems."

Rolle is not shy of throwing his team under the bus. He questioned the teams' heart on WFAN early in the season.

What should the Giants do here? Trade them? Perhaps. That might be the best move. The Giants were past this when the rid themselves of Tiki Barber and Jeremy Shockey. Now they have to deal with this. If there is a season next year, the Giants need to have a team that is without Antrel Rolle and Kenny Phillips if they are to function.

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