New York Giants fire Brian Daboll

The New York Giants suffered another loss on Sunday to fall to 2-8 overall. That is now the final defeat of the tenure under Brian Daboll.

Per reporting around the NFL, Daboll has been fired as the head coach of the Giants. ESPN’s Adam Schefter and Ian Rapoport of the NFL Network were among the first to report the decision this morning out of NYC.

With that, OC Mike Kafka has been reported as the Giants’ interim head coach, per Mike Garafolo also of the NFL Network. He has been New York’s offensive coordinator for the duration of Daboll’s tenure.

Daboll ends his tenure with an overall record of 20-40-1 (.336), being the fifth-worst win percentage all-time for a coach of the franchise and the worst of the anyone with as many games as he had on their sideline, since he made his head coaching debut in 2022. That was his only winning campaign as New York was 9-7-1 (.559) with a seven-point win in the NFC Wild Card over the Minnesota Vikings before losing by 31 to the Philadelphia Eagles in the NFC Divisional. In his other two and a half seasons since combined, the Giants, being among the league’s worst on both sides of the ball during that span, have been 11-33 (.250).

That includes this season, with the Giants falling to 2-8 on Sunday with a 24-20 loss on the road to the Chicago Bears. New York led by as much as ten twice in the second half, but gave up fourteen unanswered in the final four minutes to lose again in what’s now the final game under Daboll. They, after an 0-3 start, seem to find a new energy with a quarterback change to end September, as they went 2-1 from Week 4 to Week 6. However, the Giants have since lost four more straight, including having blown a 19-point lead on the road to the Denver Broncos, double-digit losses on the road to the Philadelphia Eagles and against the San Francisco 49ers, and that latest missed opportunity yesterday at Chicago, to be last in the NFC East, tied for last in the NFC with the New Orleans Saints, and being only better record-wise in the NFL than the Tennessee Titans.

There was a lot of excitement around Daboll’s hire after being a long-time offensive coach around the NFL, namely over three years with the Buffalo Bills. However, his tenure with New York disappointed in barely winning just a third of his games, with the Giants set to begin searching for their fifth head coach of the last decade.