Fresh off big win, Coughlin wants to keep coaching

Tom Coughlin is looking forward to the parade and a couple weeks off to reflect on the New York Giants’ second championship in five seasons. Then he will begin preparations for defending the title.

The 65- year- old coach sees no reason to retire now.

“I mean, it’s what I do,” Coughlin said Monday morning, hours after the Giants beat the New England Patriots 21- 17 in the Super Bowl. “So the alternative, I’ve never really given it a whole lot of consideration. ( Just coach) as long as I can.”

Coughlin could be around for a while following his second title as a head coach. He signed a contract extension in July that runs through next season, but it looks as if the Giants could revisit that deal after the franchise’s fourth Super Bowl win.

It’s obvious he still wants to coach. “I don’t fish, I don’t golf,” he said. “My wife keeps telling me, ‘ You better have something to do, buddy boy. If you think you’re going to hang around here, you’re crazy.’ ”

Giants chief executive John Mara said it was safe to say the team wanted Coughlin to return. “He might be 65, but he’s got the energy of somebody quite younger than that,” Mara said.

The big parade up the Canyon of Heroes in lower Manhattan is

scheduled for today. Giant engagement party: Giants linebacker Greg Jones and his fiancée will likely send out their own announcement.

For now, teammate Mark Herzlich is getting out the word.

Herzlich tweeted this after the game: Congrats to my boy Greg Jones for getting a ring and giving one. # engaged last night! Congrats

The ( Newark) Star- Ledger reported that, minutes after the game, the rookie dropped to a knee and proposed.

His girlfriend, Mandy Piechowski, said yes, and then the tears began to flow.

“She was bawling,” Jones told The Star- Ledger on Monday as the team prepared to head home. “I was like, ‘ I don’t know how long she’s going to keep crying.’ ”

Jones said if the Giants hadn’t pulled off the comeback victory, he wouldn’t have gone through with it, instead waiting for a happier time.

Mcdaniels named: Patriots coach Bill Belichick confirmed Monday that Josh Mcdaniels would be the team’s offensive coordinator next season.

Mcdaniels was brought in during the playoffs to serve as an offensive assistant. He was widely seen as the heir to offensive coordinator Bill O’brien, who had been hired to replace Joe Paterno at Penn State.

But it wasn’t official until Belichick confirmed the move Monday, a day after the Patriots lost to the Giants 21- 17 in the Super Bowl.

Mcdaniels was the Patriots offensive coordinator from 2006 to 2008 until he left to become head coach of the Denver Broncos. Haley to Steelers reports: The Pittsburgh Steelers will hire former Kansas City Chiefs coach Todd Haley to be their offensive coordinator, ESPN reported Monday.

The move, first reported by KCSP- AM in Kansas City, had not been announced. Haley, 45, would replace Bruce Arians, now with the Indianapolis Colts.