The fall of the Brian Daboll era

East Rutherford, NJ – History will show that New York Giants‘In terms of franchise head coach winning percentage, the Brian Daboll era will fall somewhere between the Ben McAdoo and Joe Judge years.

Daboll finished with a 20-40-1 record (.336) in the first fired on mondayIn his final two and a half seasons he went 11–33 (,250), Only tennessee titans were worse during that period.

Whenever his team lost, Daboll would say, “Not very good.”

This applied to most of his tenure.

Over the past four years, multiple sources told ESPN that Daboll never seemed to have any kind of consistency in his decision-making. Several players have even said that the Giants were very concerned with the stories and perceptions outside the building.

Daboll and Giants general manager Joe Schoen eventually parted ways, as owner John Mara said was the case several years earlier, because of their different jobs. In the same statement in which Daboll was relieved of his duties on Monday, Schoen was placed in charge of the upcoming coaching search. Barring a sudden change at the end of the season or specific demands from a coaching candidate, Schoen is expected to lead this team forward.

This follows the constant back-and-forth over the past 18 months, as team sources said the front office believed there was more talent than the club’s records indicated. The coaching staff was not getting maximum benefit from the talent.

This was reflected in the decision to retain Schoen and fire Daboll, despite both having similar win-loss records on their resumes.

“We think Joe has assembled a great young core of talent, and we look forward to its development,” Mara said in the statement.

It was Daboll and his coaching that led to the collapse after posting four double-digit leads, posting a 2-8 record this season. Giving up a 10-point lead with less than four minutes remaining during a game in Chicago on Sunday was the last challenge the rookie quarterback faced. jackson dart Left with an injury.

fast pace suffered a blow Against the Bears, he found himself injured for the fourth time in eight preseason games.

It seemed inevitable that this would be the final straw for Daboll when the prized quarterback (whom He played an important role in drafting) Ultimately the wrong kind of hit happened. This – a hard hit on a fumble in the third quarter – caused Dart to slowly walk off the field. It came after Daboll was asked for several weeks if he needed to be more judicious about how and when to run the ball to his quarterback. Instead of emphasizing the need for Dart to be more cautious to limit hard hits, the veterans insisted publicly as well as behind closed doors that they wanted Dart to play his game. He didn’t want to lose the aggression and competitiveness that got him selected in the first round.

“We’ll do the things we think we need to do,” Daboll said recently about Darts being more cautious about running the football.

Daboll needed to win games this year. He was on the hot seat last season, when sources believed his job was in jeopardy.

Mara made it clear that the franchise needs to look at Had year been 5 the results would have been much better,

Mara said at the time, “It better not take too long because I’m almost out of patience.”

It wasn’t long ago that Daboll was being praised for the same spirit that led to his downfall. in his First game with Giants in 2022The team won on a missed field goal by the Titans in the last seconds. The first-time head coach was pumping as he ran up and down the sideline. It all seemed very refreshing during a successful first season, in which he received Coach of the Year awards and the team captured a playoff game – still its only postseason success since Super Bowl XLVI in 2012.

As things went south, that same fire and emotion would become problematic. there was a time when he turned a bullet at quarterback Daniel JonesDefensive coordinator Wink Martindale was scolded from the sideline, extended in and out of the locker room At halftime of the 2023 loss dallas cowboysSchoen was also injured due to the continuous explosions, listening on headset To ensure that Daboll is communicating effectively with his coaches during games. heck, dabol was even caught on camera Special teams coordinator Thomas McGaughey got the death stare during a preseason game early in his tenure.

In this season alone, there were weekly squid on the edgea hatred-challenge after a push push non rumble earlier this month and Illegally moving in blue medical tent While the injury against the dart was being investigated philadelphia eaglesThat embarrassment cost Daboll $100,000 and the team $250,000,

Mara had to issue a statement Daboll’s actions are being condemned after the Giants’ biggest win since Daboll’s first season.

A player recently told ESPN about Daboll outburst and threat after the tight end threatened to take away the playcalling from assistant head coach/offensive coordinator Mike Kafka. Theo Johnson Dropped a key third-down pass downfield against the Eagles.

Meanwhile, Dabol had Playcalling is already taken from Kafka Sometime during the 2023 season and then full-time for 2024. It did not go well to such an extent that Mara recommended that he give it back to Kafka for this season.

Kafka was named interim head coach by ownership on Monday.

The cycle around decisions – a constant during the Daboll era. Had it not been for all the other cracks in Daboll’s program, all of this might have been viewed differently.

In 2024, Daboll’s finger turned to Jones after he fired Martindale and his two top assistants, McGaughey and offensive line coach Bobby Johnson, after his second year in charge. Daboll fired defensive backs coach Jerome Henderson and safeties coach Mike Trier after last season, only to see the secondary struggle even more this year.

None of them made a dent in the win column. get rid of the quarterback Like Jones didn’t solve any problems. The losses continue to mount while Jones is on a resurgence and is 8-2 indianapolis colts,

Most importantly, Daboll didn’t win enough games in New York. The results speak for themselves. Bins 3-14 do not move by accident. Coincidentally the coaches haven’t been 2-8 in three consecutive seasons. Over the last two seasons the coach went 11-33 and was fired due to bad luck. The Giants could not do much under Daboll’s leadership.

Multiple players told ESPN that news of the decision to fire Daboll spread before Monday’s team meeting at 1 p.m. local time. Some players were not surprised when the news became public at 12:43 p.m. after finding out during a Bible study session because many players had noticed that Daboll’s postgame message the previous day had been unusually brief. Looking back, he saw this as resignation to his fate.

When the team convened, Shawn and Kafka shared the news. Daboll was gone before the season ended.