The New York Giants have begun the 2024 NFL season by dropping six of their first eight video games, which has develop into the norm in East Rutherford in recent times.
The Giants have began seven of their final eight seasons 2-6 (or worse) after eight video games. The one exception was 2022 after they obtained off to a 6-1 begin en path to a 9-8 season and a playoff berth.
Head coach Brian Daboll, since taking up the reins as head coach in 2022, is 17-24-1 within the common season and 1-1 within the postseason.
There have been quite a few conversations and articles suggesting that Daboll ought to be on the new seat. However trying again a the historical past of the Giants, his file isn’t a lot totally different than that of his predecessors.
Daboll is the tenth man to educate 42 or extra video games for the Giants of their century-long existence and the seventh because the 1970 NFL-AFL merger.
Right here’s the place Daboll stands in opposition to these different six Big head coaches after 42 video games:
- Jim Fassel (23-18-1)
- Tom Coughlin and Dan Reeves (23-19)
- Invoice Parcells (19-22-1)
- Alex Webster (19-23)
- Brian Daboll (17-24-1)
- Ray Perkins (15-27)
So, Daboll is simply two video games worse than the nice Corridor of Famer Invoice Parcells and forward of Perkins, who is essentially credited with serving to to modernize the Giants underneath basic supervisor George Younger after many years of ineptitude.
Nonetheless need to hearth Daboll? Or do you need to be slightly extra affected person now that the place he stands in crew historical past?
