I don't think Daboll's 6-1 start last season was luck. I think it was because the regime change gave the team momentum, Daboll was a breath of fresh air after Joe Judge who was possibly the least qualified HC the franchise hired since the early 1970s and looked like a mediocre actor playing a "tough guy" coach on some bad tv movie. In the first half of last season, opposing teams didn't know quite what to expect and the Giants pulled off a bunch of wins because of that, and because things came together for them personnel-wise. Also, Jones played to his full potential, and with Barkley back, the team clicked, for a while.
Once teams caught on to what the Giants were doing, on offense and defense, it all came to a screeching halt. Right now, these coaches are clearly fresh out of ideas. Daboll looks like a guy who just doesn't know what to do. He is making poor decisions and is unable to explain them in his pressers. Sorry, it's not about De Vito. The Giants have fielded bad QBs in the past. I mean really bad. But even then they were competitive. De Vito didn't give up 49 points yesterday. I remember bad seasons but I don't remember seasons with blowouts like this, the game being over in the 1st quarter and just getting worse from there. Games where there's no hope at all. The Giants were often losers, but they were tragic losers, fighting hard. Even in the 70s. This feels different.
May I remind everyone that this season is far from over. They are 2-8 and have 7 more games to play. Things could get much uglier. If they just get blown out in every game - and that could happen - I'm sorry but all your declarations about how De Vito sucks and no coach could win with him, or about how you don't fire another coach after two seasons, or all the other stuff, go right out the window. You can't have a team lose game after game by 30-40 points. Especially if it happens at Met Life. You don't even need a head coach for that. You can get a similar result with the players coaching themselves.
If the Giants manage to play competitive football down the stretch and get a couple more wins in the the process, finishing 4-13 but giving the fans some hope to cling to for next season, Daboll survives. But let's say the Giants lose their rest of their games in blowouts - sorry but that's not tenable, even for a stiff like John Mara. Schoen, who is still much better at his job than Gettleman was, might be told that he has more time to try to right the ship and he and Mara go shopping for yet another coach, and they draft J J McCarthy or Drake. They will probably get the head coach hire wrong again, but that's another story.
Once teams caught on to what the Giants were doing, on offense and defense, it all came to a screeching halt. Right now, these coaches are clearly fresh out of ideas. Daboll looks like a guy who just doesn't know what to do. He is making poor decisions and is unable to explain them in his pressers. Sorry, it's not about De Vito. The Giants have fielded bad QBs in the past. I mean really bad. But even then they were competitive. De Vito didn't give up 49 points yesterday. I remember bad seasons but I don't remember seasons with blowouts like this, the game being over in the 1st quarter and just getting worse from there. Games where there's no hope at all. The Giants were often losers, but they were tragic losers, fighting hard. Even in the 70s. This feels different.
May I remind everyone that this season is far from over. They are 2-8 and have 7 more games to play. Things could get much uglier. If they just get blown out in every game - and that could happen - I'm sorry but all your declarations about how De Vito sucks and no coach could win with him, or about how you don't fire another coach after two seasons, or all the other stuff, go right out the window. You can't have a team lose game after game by 30-40 points. Especially if it happens at Met Life. You don't even need a head coach for that. You can get a similar result with the players coaching themselves.
If the Giants manage to play competitive football down the stretch and get a couple more wins in the the process, finishing 4-13 but giving the fans some hope to cling to for next season, Daboll survives. But let's say the Giants lose their rest of their games in blowouts - sorry but that's not tenable, even for a stiff like John Mara. Schoen, who is still much better at his job than Gettleman was, might be told that he has more time to try to right the ship and he and Mara go shopping for yet another coach, and they draft J J McCarthy or Drake. They will probably get the head coach hire wrong again, but that's another story.