Giants fire Brian Daboll as head coach, and he had it coming

The Giants brass have seen enough. Head coach Brian Daboll has been fired by the team after losing to the Chicago Bears on Sunday, leaving New York with a woeful 2-8 record on the year. It comes weeks after there appeared to be hope for the future with Jaxson Dart at QB and Cam Skatterbo at running back, but now both are injured and Daboll didn’t have any answers for how to progress with this team.

Daboll was hired to much fanfare in 2022 as part of a culture shift inside the organization. Coming from winning pedigrees in Buffalo, Kansas City, and New England it initially felt like he was the right man to get the job done after winning Coach of the Year honors in his first season, when he led the Giants to a 9-7-1 record, a surprise playoff berth, and a playoff win.

Unfortunately things only went down from there.

Routinely the Giants were underachievers. Never the worst team in the league, but nothing about them inspired any kind of faith. In 2023 the team regressed with a revolving door of quarterbacks to finish 6-11, which got worse in 2024 with a 3-14 record. Every year began with the promise that this would be the time Daboll had the pieces to finally make things work, only to reveal more disappointment.

Daboll offered very little information after Dart left with a concussion on Sunday, seemingly chalking it up to bad luck — rather than accepting any responsibility for the terrible offensive line play the Giants have had this season, or why the team hadn’t found ways to ensure Dart wasn’t hit as often.

Offensive coordinator Mike Kafka will operate as the interim head coach, with the search for a new head coach likely beginning as soon as teams can interview coordinators. Daboll ends his tenure as head coach of the New York Giants with a record of 20-40-1.