The New York Giants’ 24-20 loss to the Chicago Bears in Week 10 was hardly surprising. In the snow at Soldier Field, and with an offense lacking its top two weapons due to season-ending injuries, Brian Daboll is coaching out the rest of the 2025 season before likely being fired.
USA Today’s Chris Bumbaca believes Giants ownership may want to reconsider letting Daboll go on because he fails the team in one key area: he’s running franchise quarterback Jaxson Dart into the ground with his play-calling.
Daboll, as Bumbaca notes, is playing too much for the now. And it just cost his star player and 2025 first-round draft pick, who suffered a concussion against the Bears.
“The odds of Daboll sticking around for Year 2 of Dart dwindle with each week. This goes beyond the fact that the Giants blew their third double-digit lead of the season and, at 2-8, feel destined for the cellar of a non-competitive NFC East. A lot of that has to do with the defense and inability to close games, which is also a coaching conundrum, but in this context, it’s about the conscious decision to continue running Dart despite it not being in the player’s best interest – or the interest of the franchise and its future,” Bumbaca wrote.
“Whoever the Giants’ next head coach is has to understand that.”
Daboll is aggressively trying to dig himself out of a hole, which is commendable. Even if front offices tank by trading away veterans, head coaches and players don’t. Daboll is trying to win, as he’s being paid roughly $5 million per season to do.
That he’s not, and that he’s risking the franchise’s future in meaningless games during yet another lost season, is why he’s about to collect his checks from anywhere but East Rutherford, New Jersey.
Joe Schoen can save his own job by saving Dart and terminating Daboll. And maybe an interim head coach whose lead play-caller can avoid choking games away in the second half of almost every game his team has a lead in.