Former Giants defenseman Chris Canty has seen enough.
After watching his former team go 2-7 for the third straight year, Canty knows where to point the finger. In his opinion, Brian Daboll is the person to blame for the team’s inability to improve, despite being better talent-wise year after year.
“You’ve hired and fired enough coordinators,” Canty said on former Jets linebacker Bart Scott’s ESPN New York radio show on Friday, via X/Twitter. “How’d that work? Listen, you ran Wink Martindale out of town. You ran him out of town, a guy that’s damn good at his job, and it hasn’t been markedly better since.
“You can’t keep hiring and firing coordinators and pointing the finger of blame at other people. At some point, it’s your ass.”
While Scott agrees with Canty that Daboll hasn’t done enough this season to save his job, he wonders where else does the team look for a head coach?
In Bart’s opinion, this decision should be left to the team’s rookie quarterback, Jaxson Dart.
“The CEO, or let’s just say, the president of the team, is the starting quarterback,” Bart replied.
“So I think that it comes down to the quarterback,” Bart continued. “Do you want to have a new coach? What type of system are you looking for? Because yes, Daboll may not deserve to be the coach here, but you also have to ask yourself, who’s the next person?
“Like, to me, a Giants hire, because we know they’re not going to do something splashy, they’re not going to go out and get Lane Kiffin. They’ll bring in Mike McCarthy. They’ll bring somebody in like that. … What you don’t want is you don’t want some new dude learning on the job again, right?”
Daboll’s tenure as the Giants’ head coach has been a roller coaster.
After a promising first season in 2022 that ended with a playoff win and Coach of the Year honors, New York has since struggled to find consistency. Daboll’s offensive background hasn’t translated into sustained success, with injuries, poor line play, and quarterback instability derailing progress.
As losses mount, questions are growing about whether Daboll can regain control of the locker room and reestablish the disciplined identity that once made the Giants one of the league’s best teams.
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