Ex-Giants coach Wink Martindale shades team amid woeful season

Wink Martindale is intelligibly blessed to person moved connected from the New York Giants. 

The erstwhile antiaircraft coordinator, who took connected the aforesaid relation with the Michigan Wolverines this season, made that overmuch wide during a property league connected Wednesday. 

"I haven't sat down and thought astir the agelong haul," Martindale said erstwhile asked astir his plans to stay coaching college football.

Defensive coordinator Wink Martindale of the Michigan Wolverines is seen connected the sideline during the outpouring shot crippled astatine Michigan Stadium successful Ann Arbor connected April 20, 2024. (Aaron J. Thornton/Getty Images)

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"When you're 61, you conscionable effort to deliberation astir tomorrow. I'm gladsome that I'm here. I emotion the players that we have. It's evidently a antithetic game, but it's a batch amended than being successful immoderate places that are 2-7." 

The "some places" Martindale was seemingly referencing was his erstwhile employer. 

Martindale was hired by Michigan successful February aft helium and the Giants agreed to portion ways aft 2 tumultuous seasons. The quality followed reports that circulated earlier successful the 2023 play that Martindale and caput manager Brian Daboll weren't getting along.

New York Giants caput manager Brian Daboll, right, and antiaircraft coordinator Don Martindale are shown during a crippled connected Aug. 28, 2022. (Rich Graessle/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)

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The last straw appeared to beryllium a drawstring of firings that Martindale reportedly had not been pleased with.

According to the New York Post’s reporting astatine the time, Martindale had an explosive outburst with Daboll and subsequently resigned his position.

While not sitting astatine 2-7, the 5-4 Wolverines aren’t doing overmuch better, but it's an result Martindale expected this season.

Giants antiaircraft coordinator Wink Martindale is shown during a crippled connected Oct. 22, 2023. (IMAGN)

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"When you suffer the games that you lose, you're disappointed, but besides erstwhile you've done it arsenic agelong arsenic I've done it, there's seasons similar this, wherever things conscionable happen. I told the defence earlier the play adjacent started: It's going to beryllium a antithetic year, it's going to beryllium a antithetic season," helium said Wednesday.

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