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If it was as easy as Mike Vrabel is making it look, owners around the NFL would fire and hire new head coaches with even more regularity than they currently discard one guy and welcome in another.
As for the Giants, they’re also in the research phase, watching tape and talking things over, so they can be prepared for January. That said, they do want to give interim coach Mike Kafka a real run at the job. Going into Monday night’s game in Foxborough, and through two games, Kafka’s shown an ability to juggle play-calling and be the head coach, with the offense having run up 517 yards and 27 points in Detroit last week, and 336 yards and 20 points on a high-end Packers defense the week before without Jaxon Dart at QB.
Kafka’s on a pared-down list of about 10 candidates that GM Joe Schoen has built, a list that Schoen has curated over the years on the advice of mentors who’d tell him that a good GM would always keep one. That doesn’t mean the Giants won’t add to the list. But it does mean that, while they’re researching a wide range of options, they won’t interview the whole football world for a job that will be highly coveted in the industry.
The Giants (2-10) enabled the foolhardy play to a degree under Daboll — failing to emphasize the need to be more careful. Backup quarterback Jameis Winston, who has started two games in Dart’s absence, said he would relay the message from the coaching staff and higher-ups, only when it was brought to him first. He didn’t want Dart to change the way he plays football, the same way that helped him get to the NFL and the first round of the draft.
Sometimes, though, those few extra yards that Dart’s heart and natural competitiveness desire...
