There’s never a bad time to catch up with Steve Spagnuolo, who remains revered around the Giants for his work as the defensive coordinator who helped slay Tom Brady and the unbeaten Patriots in the massive Super Bowl XLII upset after the 2007 season.
“Spags,’’ as he’s known by almost everyone in the NFL community, spoke this week at the Big Daddy Celebrity Golf Classic at Oheka Castle and admitted the time between then — that titanic victory for the Giants — and now has passed quickly.
Spagnuolo has not eased off the accelerator since his glory days with the Giants. In February, he won his third Super Bowl ring, his second running the defense for the high-flying Chiefs, with a pulsating 38-35 comeback victory over the Eagles in Super Bowl LVII in Glendale, Ariz.
Congenial, gracious and insightful, Spagnuolo hit on a few different topics before he went out and hit a few golf balls into the humid Long Island air. Here are excerpts from that conversation:
