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New York Giants coach Tom Coughlin is under fire amid an eight-game losing streak.

With the New York Giants mired in an eight-game losing streak, several players said they "hate" playing for coach Tom Coughlin and that he will never be successful while at the helm, the New York Post reported.

"Guys absolutely hate Tom Coughlin," one Giant told the Post. "He's not the type of coach we're going to go and put everything on the line for. Guys don't play for him; we play because we have to play and you're not going to win that way.

"Arguments go on every day in that building, cursing out between the players and the coaches."

"We will not win here when he's the coach," another veteran added. "It's coaches against the players. It's Coughlin against the coaches. There's no team atmosphere or camaraderie."

Coughlin refused to discuss the report, the Associated Press reported.

Rookie quarterback Eli Manning said he feels the players have not quit and that they are heading into the season finale against Dallas on Sunday night looking to end the season on a good note.

“Nothing is ever easy when you are losing,” Manning said. “When you are winning you believe in what the coaches are saying. You believe it is going to work.”

Said another veteran Giant, "He came into a meeting the other day and asked us to support him in the media. He asked everybody to stand by him and support him and say the right thing."

Players have complained about Coughlin's impersonal, sometimes rude treatment, the Post said.

And the anger apparently extends to the coaching staff, the Post said, with some of them saying they feel overworked. "These coaches can't wait to get out of here just like all of us," one veteran told the Post.

One player told the Post that Coughlin started to lose his grip on the team when he fined Barrett Green $17,000 for oversleeping during a bye week and showed up 90 minutes late for a meeting.

"That's when he really started to lose guys," one Giant told the Post.

"He might be preaching 'team,' but it's all about Coughlin," another player said. "Honestly, everyone thinks the guy's crazy."

Several Giants told the Post that Coughlin would be unable to regain the team's trust.

"Honestly, they might as well fire him now," one player told the Post. "The players on this team have quit on him. That's a very strong word, but mark it down: this team has quit on him and quit really caring and quit listening to what Tom Coughlin has to say."

"Most guys are just hoping that either they'll be gone or he'll be gone after this season," another Giant said. "Guys just tune him out, ignore him and don't care what he says. They just want to play the season out and get it over with."

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