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Jordan Raanan
East Rutherford, NJ — New York Giants Coach Brian Daboll is out after the team blew another double-digit lead on Sunday in Chicago, sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Monday.
It was the second time this season they lost after leading by at least 10 points with less than four minutes remaining. They became the second team to do so following the NFL merger, joining only in 2004. Seattle Seahawks,
Assistant head coach and offensive coordinator Mike Kafka will serve as the Giants’ interim coach, a source told ESPN. Kafka was a finalist for several head coaching jobs over the past two years.
Sources told ESPN that Joe Schoen will remain as general manager and there will be no other changes to the coaching staff for now.
The Giants (2-8) have won just two of their first 10 games for the third straight year. They are 11-33 since the start of the 2023 season.
Daboll was asked if he was worried about his job with a 2-8 team on Sunday.
“I’m just focused on these guys in the locker room,” he said.
rookie quarterback jackson dart Too suffered a blow In Sunday’s 24-20 loss to the Giants. It was the fourth time Dart has been evaluated for an injury this year, including the preseason.
Daboll won the Coach of the Year award in his first season with the Giants when they went a surprising 9–7–1 and won a playoff game in Minnesota. This has since been broken, even though Daboll was considered the driving force behind drafting Dart. The first-round pick has totaled 17 touchdowns in his first seven starts.
But the Giants still weren’t winning games, and they were blowing the lead in unprecedented fashion. New York blew double-digit leads in four road games that ended in loss.
Daboll was 20–40–1 as head coach of the Giants. His .336 winning percentage puts him behind Ben McAdoo and Ray Perkins.
The fiery coach had an up and down four eventful years with the Giants, including bad blood with defensive coordinator Wink Martindale after the ’23 season and a $100,000 fine for going to the blue medical tent while Dart was being examined for a concussion earlier this year.
At one point along the way, Schoen had to monitor the coaching headset to evaluate the coach’s communications. Daboll also flipped a tablet at the former quarterback Daniel Jones And changed a large part of its staff in the last two years.
Daboll and Schoen were brought back after the team went 3-14 last season. But he was eventually put on the hot seat when owner John Mara said after the season that he expected better results.
“I know how many games we’ve won, and obviously the results aren’t even close to what we want,” Mara said at the time. “They have to be better if we want to move forward as the year goes on [5],
Daboll was appointed in 2022 after serving four years as coordinator buffalo billWhere he led the development of quarterbacks josh allenHe spent a large portion of his career in New England with several stints as an assistant under Bill Belichick.
