The New York Giants may have fired coach Brian Daboll on Monday. But general manager Joe Schoen isn’t going with Daboll.
The Giants announced Schoen would remain the general manager even though Daboll was let go as coach Monday.
Daboll became just the third coach in Giants history to be let go midseason, joining Ben McAdoo in 2017 and Bill Arnsparger in 1976. Schoen hired Daboll to be Giants coach in 2022, and he won NFL Coach of the Year while leading the Giants to the playoffs that season with a 9-7-1 record.
Joe Schoen Will Help The Giants Hire Their Next Coach
However you feel about Daboll, there’s no denying Schoen has made them more talented since taking over for Dave Gettleman.
Schoen traded for Brian Burns, who leads the NFL in sacks (11). He also has had numerous draft successes, choosing Malik Nabers in the first-round of the 2024 NFL Draft, trading up to choose Jaxson Dart with the No. 25 pick of this year’s draft and selecting running back Cam Skattebo in the fourth round of the 2025 draft.
“We feel like Joe has assembled a good young nucleus of talent, and we look forward to its development,” Giants owner/president John Mara said in a statement. “Unfortunately, the results over the past three years have not been what any of us want. We take full responsibility for those results and look forward to the kind of success our fans expect.”
The Giants have been done in by injuries to Nabers and Skattebo, plus Daboll did not adequately protect Dart, and the rookie QB sustained a concussion against the Chicago Bears on Sunday, which is part of why he was fired Monday.
Offensive coordinator Mike Kafka was named the Giants’ interim head coach after Daboll was let go. Schoen will have authority to help Mara, and chairman Steve Tisch, for the team’s next coach, who will be its seventh in the past 10 years.
“These are difficult decisions, and John and I do not take them lightly,” said Tisch, “but we feel like this is the right thing to do at this time and will allow us to move forward.”
Joe Schoen Is Responsible For Where The Giants Are Too
It’s hard to grade Schoen because the Gettleman era was such a nightmare. But even though the Giants’ roster is more talented than their 2-8 record suggests, Schoen has had his share of missteps in his four years.
Schoen will always be remembered as the GM that let Saquon Barkley leave for the Philadelphia Eagles without even offering him a contract.
But that may not have been his biggest mistake of the 2024 off-season, since Schoen also let safety Xavier McKinney leave in free agency for the Green Bay Packers. McKinney has 10 interceptions in 25 games since leaving the Giants and achieved All-Pro status in his first year in Green Bay.
Schoen also let safety Julian Love leave in free agency for the Seattle Seahawks, and Love was a Pro Bowler in his first year in Seattle.
So even though Schoen would say he’s still in the midst of a roster teardown/buildup, and Mara’s not wrong to say New York is closer than some might suggest, he had his hand in this mess too.
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