Should the Cleveland Browns give Tom Coughlin a call?

The Cleveland Browns need a head coach and Tom Coughlin and his two Super Bowl trophies may be available. Should the team give him a call?

The Cleveland Browns are currently going full steam ahead as they search for the 16th full-time head coach in franchise history.

The Browns have been linked to the standard candidates, a list that includes Chicago Bears offensive coordinator Adam Case, Cincinnati Bengals offensive coordinator Hue Jackson, New England defensive coordinator Matt Patricia, and Jacksonville Jaguars offensive line coach Doug Marrone.

It may be time to add another name to that list.

Related: Browns reportedly will interview Matt Patricia

The New York Giants held a farewell press conference for head coach Tom Coughlin today, who indicated that while he has no plans to pursue another head coaching position, he also is reportedly not happy to be leaving the sidelines and said that he is not “necessarily done with coaching.”

So should the Browns give Coughlin a call?

He certainly has the résumé after taking the Giants to two Super Bowl victories in 12 years in New York, posting a record of 192-102.

Coughlin is also a hard-nosed coach, which could be appealing to Browns owner Jimmy Haslam, especially after watching how the immaturity of players like Johnny Manziel and Justin Gilbert helped to derail the Browns the past two seasons. There is no way that Coughlin would put up with players missing meetings because they are “hard sleepers” or skipping mandatory sessions to go to Las Vegas.

The Browns have gone down the hard-ass coach route before in Eric Mangini, but they haven’t tried a successful hard-ass coach since returning to the NFL in 1999.

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The big question is whether or not Coughlin is really interested in getting back into the game right away – or at all.

He’s going to turn 70 this year, and after spending 12 years with one of the league’s most-stable franchise the thought of coming to a situation like the Browns may not appeal to him. If he did, it would be fair to wonder just how many years he has left before he would step away for good, meaning the Browns could be right back to a coaching search in another two or three years.

While he does boast the two Super Bowl victories, the Giants were just 6-10 the past two years and only hit double figures in wins once in Coughlin’s last seven years in charge. Outside of those two Super Bowl runs, the Giants only made the playoffs three times during Coughlin’s 12 years and lost the first game each time.

And when you add in his eight years in Jacksonville, Coughlin is only 20 games over .500 in his career. (Nothing to laugh at if you are the Browns, but still something to take into consideration.)

So while the situation may not be right for Coughlin or the Browns, it will be interesting to see if they at least give him a call.