NFL coaches like the Giants' Tom Coughlin are increasingly
adjusting their teams' calendars for Monday and Thursday games.
Associated Press  LANDOVER, Md.—During his two decades as an NFL
head coach, Mike Shanahan has earned a reputation as one of the
game's most creative thinkers.  His run-heavy version of the
West Coast offense led the Denver Broncos to back-to-back Super
Bowl wins in the 1990s and turned a string of unheralded backs
into 1,000-yard rushers.  Now, as coach of the Washington
Redskins, he has overseen an offense that has confounded
opponents with a read-option attack and a diet of crafty trick
plays. But as he cooked up a game plan for his surging team's
Monday night matchup with the Giants, one of his more radical
innovations came in a different area: the calendar.  "We'll have
a normal Wednesday-Thursday-Friday schedule, just like for a
Sunday game," Shanahan said last week in a conference call. "But
this week, we'll have two Fridays."  When it comes to NFL
coaches, it seems the wrinkles an