Giants’ Schoen, Daboll’s job security in doubt following franchise-record 10th consecutive loss

Giants GM Joe Shoen and coach Brian Daboll have their fate and job security “teetering” following the team’s 10th consecutive loss on Sunday, according to Paul Schwartz of the N.Y. POST. The loss set a franchise record for consecutive losses and Schoen and Daboll are “are at the helm of a team that is 2-13 and facing a real possibility” of ending their third season with the Giants on a 12-game losing streak. Schwartz writes there is also “no sense that the Giants are on the right path and this dead team walking is a brutal look for all involved” (N.Y. POST, 12/22). In N.Y., Pat Leonard noted the domed Mercedes-Benz Stadium “saved co-owner John Mara from watching a third plane fly overhead with another mandate to fire his GM and head coach and start over.” Still, Mara can “expect another one next weekend” when the Giants aim for the “first 0-9 home record in NFL history and the first winless Giants season at home since 1974” (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 12/22).

WILL CHANGE COME? SI’s Albert Breer writes some form of changes for the Giants “seems inevitable.” Mara “doesn’t want to blow it up again” — if he fired those two guys, he would be into his fifth head coach and third GM in less than a decade. The “facts are the facts, and narratives have slowly become reality.” Breer: “If Daboll and Schoen make it to next season, they’d very clearly go in fighting for their jobs, and in a market where the environment has already gotten toxic” (SI, 12/23).

NOT ON ONE MAN: In Newark, Ryan Novozinsky writes Mara “seems to be leaning toward” keeping Schoen and firing Daboll. So, before pulling the trigger on that, Mara “needs to realize” that his team’s 10-game losing streak is “as much Schoen’s fault as it is Daboll’s.” Novozinsky adds it is “hard to coach a team that’s riddled with so many draft duds and nonexistent depth” (Newark STAR-LEDGER, 12/23). On Long Island, Tom Rock wrote Daboll is “part of the problem” but “hardly” the whole problem to the point “that canning him will improve things greatly.” Mara has “every right to fire Daboll” but this current Giants “misadventure is far too complicated for one simple maneuver to fix it” (NEWSDAY, 12/22).

NOT MAJOR LEAGUE CALIBER: In N.Y., Mark Cannizzaro wrote whether Daboll has “done a good job is difficult to properly measure” because he is “coaching a minor-league roster right now — aside from the small handful of legitimate proper NFL starters” (N.Y. POST, 12/22). Leonard in a separate piece asked how “can anyone trust their judgment if Mara is genuinely looking at Schoen’s first three years of work and claiming confidence in the GM’s ability to pick players and build a competitive team?” The current Giants roster and team is “an embarrassment” (N.Y. DAILY NEWS, 12/22).