Jags hire Coughlin as exec

Tom Coughlin again will be leading a team, but not from the sidelines.

The longtime Giants head coach is being hired as the executive vice president of football operations with the Jaguars, ESPN reported Monday, pairing him with Doug Marrone, whom Jacksonville is promoting to head coach, to steer the woebegone franchise.

Coughlin and Marrone reportedly are getting threeyear deals. General manager David Caldwell’s contract will be extended so the three contracts expire simultaneously.

This will be a reunion for Coughlin, who coached the Jags from their 1995 inception until 2002, and was openly mentioned by Caldwell as a target during the franchise’s coaching hunt. He was interviewed Dec. 28 amid speculation the 70-year-old would return to the coaching ranks. In November, a nostalgic Coughlin admitted he “missed” coaching.

“Am I missing the sideline? I would be less than honest if I had told you that I didn’t miss the sideline,’’ Coughlin said in the week preceding his entry into the Giants’ Ring of Honor. “… As far as the future holds, who knows? I wouldn’t speculate on anything.’’

Coughlin spent his year away from an NFL team by working for the league in a vague senior adviser to football operations gig, in which he worked with teams and officials.

The two-time Super Bowl winner with the Giants, with a career 320-170 record, will try to revive a Jaguars team that hasn’t finished above .500 since 2007 and is coming off a 3-13 disaster.

Working with him will be Marrone, who had been their offensive line coach then interim head coach following the December firing of Gus Bradley.

Marrone, a Bronx native, was the Bills head coach in 2013 and 2014, finishing 15-17 before he bolted, choosing to become a free agent. He was said to be the runner-up for the Jets job when the team hired Todd Bowles in 2015.