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Just because Daboll flopped doesn’t mean the next hot-shot quarterback whisperer definitely will.
And as we’ve mentioned: When you have a young quarterback, it’s always more convenient to hire an offensive-minded head coach. That’s because a defensive-minded head coach not only needs to land a legit offensive coordinator, but then must hope that guy doesn’t bolt for a head coaching job if the quarterback thrives. Which would create instability. Clearly, the Giants must value leadership in this search. They can’t just hire a successful offensive coordinator for the sake of it.
The interested NFL team would have to navigate his rumored buyout of $40 million to $50 million in order to poach him from Notre Dame, and it would hope that Freeman can hire a good enough staff to help a rebuilding team.
That’s a tricky proposition for teams that will be looking to hire new coaches in January—and probably narrows Freeman’s options, so familiarity might help. There’s one front office that might fit the bill, and that’s the New York Giants. General manager Joe Schoen grew up near South Bend, and director of player personnel Tim McDonnell worked at Notre Dame (albeit before Freeman was hired there). If any NFL team could gather intel on Freeman’s interest and readiness for the job, it’d be this one.
If the season ended now, the Giants (2-12) would finish with the No. 1 pick in the NFL Draft, and a segment of their fan base would actually prefer they lose their remaining three games in order to secure that position. But don’t tell that to the players, who have absolutely zero interest in tanking.
“We’re never gonna go out and try to lose,” running back Tyrone Tracy Jr. said Tuesday. “We’re not gonna just throw a game away. We’re going out there to win, point blank, period. We don’t care what the outside has to say about draft picks. We don’t care about what they have to say about players in college that we should get or we could get. We worry...
