In his first season with the New York Giants, Brian Daboll guided the crew to the playoffs for the primary time since 2016 and led them to their first postseason victory since Tremendous Bowl XLVI.
That marketing campaign earned Daboll accolades from the Related Press, having been named the 2022 Coach of the Yr.
However 2023 noticed important regression from the Giants, highlighted by in-fighting and a partial coordinator exodus following a 6-11 end.
Most notably, reviews surfaced suggesting Daboll repeatedly misplaced management of his feelings, lashing out at assistants, culminating in an unpleasant divorce from defensive coordinator Wink Martindale.
Due to the whole 180, each on and off the sector, many have advised that Daboll will enter the 2024 season on the new seat. However retired Giants legend Tiki Barber thinks that’s all nonsense.
“It’s full and utter BS,” Barber mentioned on WFAN Thursday, by way of Audacy. “When you concentrate on how nicely this crew performed, regardless of the entire points, on the finish of the season, that’s teaching.
“There may be some pleasure that’s going to construct round right here and what Daboll can do with this group of expertise on offense, if Daniel Jones is wholesome. I feel the Giants could be good. They’re not gonna be horrible. . . it’s such disrespect to a crew that’s coached exceptionally nicely. There will not be a whole lot of groups which are coached exceptionally nicely.”
If Barber is fallacious and the Giants proceed spiraling, it’s laborious to think about Daboll surviving even after co-owner John Mara mentioned he had “all the boldness on this planet” in his head coach.
Honest or unfair, Daboll’s seat is heat and the way nicely the crew performs will decide how a lot hotter or cooler it will get.