The Giants have parted ways with head coach Brian Daboll, a source confirmed to Sports Illustrated on Monday. While the news did not feel all that surprising—Daboll posted a winning season in his first season with the Giants, won coach of the year and subsequently won six and three games in the following years—the surprise was in the optics.
The Giants abhor the appearance of impatience and staved off as long as they could the possibility of firing Ben McAdoo (in-season), Joe Judge (in-season) and Pat Shurmur (immediately after the season), all after or in fewer than two full years on the job. Daboll was supposed to be, and received the runway to be, the team’s long-term option at head coach, stabilizing the franchise in a way it had not been since the tenure of Tom Coughlin.
