Ross Jones, FOXSports.com Tiki Barber has never been afraid of a little controversy. In fact, the former New York Giants running back has welcomed it in the past. When asked to name the most heated argument he had ever had in a locker room, Barber didn’t have to think long. Barber was on the Morning Show when he recalled a confrontation with head coach Tom Coughlin in 2006 after the running back complained about how the Giants had “a pretty pitiful performance all the way around.” Barber also mentioned that he criticized some of the play calling, saying that the team should’ve ran the ball a bit more. The comments put a ton of pressure on the coaching staff. Coughlin was enraged by what Barber said and he hunted him down in the team facility the following day. “Tom Coughlin comes into my meeting room,” Barber said, “and he has all these newspapers and throws them in my face. Like, physically, in my face ... ‘What the F is this?’ And throws them in my face.” “I stood up and it got expletive really quick.” Barber remembers firing off “like a thousand” F-bombs at Coughlin in which the argument lasted for nearly 40 minutes, even after the rest of the running backs left the room. “At the end I said, ‘I’m outta here.’ And I left and he came up the ramp at old Giants Stadium and he said, ‘Are we good?’ I said, ‘Coach, as long as you want to win, cause this is my last year and I’m not coming back, we’re good.” Coughlin’s coaching style didn’t sit well with Barber and would only get along with him on Sundays. “On game day, I never had a problem with Coach Coughlin,” Barber said. “But personally, we did. We just didn’t mesh.”
