The New York Giants are 1-3 to start the 2024 season and that has stoked the conversation of whether or not head coach Brian Daboll is on the “hot seat.”
Several pollsters have Daboll as one of the favorites to lose his job this year, and if they are correct, the Giants will be looking for their sixth head coach since parting ways with Tom Coughlin after the 2015 season.
Who that coach could be is anyone’s guess. Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk believes that legendary coach Bill Belichick is a serious candidate to land with the Giants, Philadelphia Eagles, or Dallas Cowboys.
Belichick has always had a soft spot for the Giants. When details of the dysfunction over the handling of Jimmy Garoppolo emerged several years ago, a report surfaced that Belichick would want to coach the Giants if/when things end in New England.
Depending on how the rest of the year goes, the Giants could be making changes, yet again; John Mara has fired four coaches in less than a decade.
The possibility of Belichick landing with the Cowboys or the Eagles could be enough to get Mara to pull the trigger, making the guy who once quit as HC of the NYJ the new HC/GM of the NYG.
Yes, the Giants could go there for several reasons. One, to keep Belichick away from their division rivals and two, to get an established authority figure in the building to finally get some stability within the organization.
It’s unlikely to happen, however. The Giants seem to be headed for another top-10 draft pick next April and this time, they’ll get a quarterback that Daboll and Joe Schoen will be comfortable with.
There are very few coaches better suited than Daboll when it comes to developing quarterbacks, so if that is the plan, he gets to stay and this Belichick talk goes away.
