The New York Giants have several big decisions to make in 2025, including if and when to start rookie quarterback Jaxson Dart, and whether or not to fire head coach Brian Daboll if things go south.
There’s little doubt that Daboll and general manager Joe Schoen are running out of time following a 9-25 record over the past two seasons, but Dart’s presence complicates things significantly. The Ole Miss quarterback prospect — for the first time during this NYG regime — is Daboll’s guy, but QB development doesn’t happen overnight.
The argument behind keeping Schoen and Daboll this year, no matter what, revolves around the proper development of Dart. And for that reason, among others, GMenHQ writer Logan VanDine urged the Giants to “think twice” about firing their head coach at any point before the 2026 campaign in an opinion piece on July 3.
“This seems like a fresh, clean slate for Daboll and Joe Schoen, as they were able to draft their own quarterback and land potentially the best player of the entire draft in [Abdul] Carter,” VanDine argued.
Explaining: “Schoen was able to rectify the offseason blunders he made last year, when he chose to let Saquon Barkley and Xavier McKinney depart in free agency… [And] this seems to be finally Brian Daboll’s team, which has a real chance to right the ship for a Giants team that quite simply has been a laughing stock in the league over the last several seasons.”
He concluded that “with Daboll raving about how much Dart has impressed him, as well as having a (hopefully) improved offensive line, a potentially scary running back duo in Tyrone Tracy Jr. and Cam Skattebo, and a solid wide receiving core, it may be hard to justify the Giants’ ownership making another head coaching change.”
NFL Writer Predicts Giants Will Fire Head Coach Brian Daboll
VanDine’s July 3 article was actually a reaction piece, and it stemmed from CBS Sports NFL writer Tyler Sullivan predicting that Daboll would eventually be fired either during or after the 2025 season.
Sullivan placed Daboll No. 1 overall on his “hot seat” rankings on June 27, writing that “no coach has a hotter seat entering 2025 than Brian Daboll in New York.”
“In the three years he’s been on the job, the Giants are 18-32-1, and they’re coming off a 3-14 season last year,” he noted, adding: “At the end of the 2024 campaign, it felt like Daboll may be on the brink of getting the axe, but ownership decided to give him and general manager Joe Schoen another shot in 2025.”
Sullivan went on to call “poor quarterback play” the “Achilles heel of Schoen and Daboll’s Giants, citing their offseason efforts to rectify this issue.
“[Russell] Wilson is currently positioned to be the Week 1 starter, but Daboll’s fate may rest on Dart, who impressed during the offseason program,” the NFL writer continued, acknowledging that, “if Dart takes over at some point during the season and shows flashes, that could be enough to save Daboll.”
“However, he’ll need to survive an early gauntlet to possibly get to that point. Before the Week 14 bye, seven of their first 12 opponents are all coming off playoff appearances last year,” he pointed out, concluding that “it’s hard to imagine New York putting together anything close to a .500 record, which would put Daboll at serious risk of an in-season firing.”
Giants’ 2025 Head Coaching Decision Has Little to Do With Record & Everything to Do With Jaxson Dart
Sullivan makes valid points, and we’ve all heard most of them before, but VanDine’s argument has little to do with the 2025 outcome, and the Giants’ decision should not be dependent on their record this year. Plain and simple.
Granted, if this team totally collapses and the entire locker room wants Daboll gone, that’s a different story entirely. But if the Giants appear competent but pedestrian with Wilson at the helm, missing the playoffs once again, the smarter long-term bet would probably be giving their QB whisperer HC one more offseason with Dart.
Why? Think of the likely alternative.
If the Giants keep Schoen and fire Daboll, they will be saddling Dart with a new offensive playbook and quarterback development staff during his second NFL season. There is proven evidence that this is one of the best ways to destroy young and talented quarterback prospects.
If the Giants clean house and fire everyone, they will be bringing in a new GM and head coach who have zero ties to Dart. And there’s a good chance he’ll be replaced in the 2026 or 2027 draft, making the trade up for him somewhat useless and wasteful.
There’s also a good chance that a new regime will gut this Giants roster, and we all know what that means. It means another three-year rebuild with low expectations.
It may not work out in the end, but if Giants President and CEO John Mara has any faith in Schoen and Daboll — and he appears to, considering he retained them at the start of the offseason — he should let them see this two-year Dart plan through.
Anything else would be welcoming more dysfunction.
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