Giants HC Brian Daboll, GM Joe Schoen to return for fourth season after 3-14 record in 2024

A veteran assistant with experience in both the NFL and collegiate ranks, Daboll rose from offensive coordinator to head coaching candidate after overseeing a significant turnaround in Buffalo, coordinating the Bills’ offense from a bottom third unit in 2018 and 2019 — a span in which they finished as low as 30th in total yards per game — to a top five outfit in 2020 and 2021. The improvement coincided with Josh Allen‘s blossoming into a superstar quarterback, and New York sought the same outcome for Daniel Jones when it hired Daboll as coach in 2022.

Initially, the results fit the vision. Daboll directed the 2022 Giants to a surprise playoff appearance and even more shocking postseason road win over the Vikings during Wild Card Weekend, setting up a promising future.

Even then, though, the numbers suggested the Giants’ 2022 success was likely to be an outlier, not a sign of things to come. Jones posted a career-best 3,205 passing yards and a 67.2 completion percentage that stood as the best mark in his first four years in the NFL, yet he only tossed 15 touchdowns. He added another seven scores on the ground to go along with 708 rushing yards, but it seemed as if that might be his ceiling with these Giants, if not outright unsustainable.

Eventually, that sentiment proved to be true. Jones’ 2023 season was limited by injuries to just six games, and with pressure mounting on the Giants after a disappointing 6-11 finish in 2023, Jones was given a shorter leash before a disappointing 2024 season ended in his November release from the team.

If anything, that magical 2022 season was an example of how Daboll can extract the best from his team. That sentiment might have saved Daboll’s job after the 2024 season.

He’ll be expected to do the same with their next chosen signal-caller, who will likely come via first-round pick in April’s draft, but might also include a veteran bridge option. And he’ll be asked to deliver with a much shorter runway.

Duplicating the Giants’ 2024 showing will almost certainly cost Daboll his job before or by the end of the 2025 season.