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Daboll’s return not guaranteed despite John Mara’s recent plea for patience
NFL insider Adam Schefter isn’t sure that New York Giants head coach Brian Daboll will survive a second straight miserable season. Schefter said Monday on the Pat McAfee Show that “anything’s possible” with the Giants.
“I don’t know that anybody can say that anybody’s safe in New York. I don’t know that anybody can say that anybody’s safe when you’re on track to have the No. 1 overall pick in the draft,” Schefter said.
“We’ll give him [Giants co-owner John Mara] the benefit of the doubt, we’ll say he’s not making any changes, we don’t expect anything in season, but I think that they’re going to be looking at everything and I think anything’s possible there.”
Schefter, of course, was wrong that the Giants have the No. 1 pick in the 2025 NFL Draft. They have the No. 2 pick.
Here is what Mara said less than a month ago, when the Giants were 2-5:
“Obviously, we’re all very disappointed with where we are right now,” Mara said. “But I’m going to say one thing, we are not making any changes this season, and I do not anticipate making any changes in the offseason, either.”
If you know your recent Giants history, you know that Mara said something similar about Ben McAdoo during a poor 2017 season. Neither McAdoo nor GM Jerry Reese made it to the end of that season. You know that in 2021 Mara supported coach Joe Judge and said he was the right guy for the job right up until a couple of weeks before Mara fired him.
So, neither Daboll not Schoen should be comforted by the vote of confidence.
No matter how anyone felt, Elliott being back in Dallas made sense if they used him a certain way as in letting him be a short yardage and goal line type of guy to keep the chains moving and punch the ball in end zone. However, after two months of the season, Elliott isn’t even being used in those situations regularly, making his role a pretty useless one. On top of that, Elliott recently had a talk with the organization about his role or lack thereof, which led to him getting more carries than Rico Dowdle against the Detroit Lions although the latter was coming off of the best game of his career with 87 yards. After the bye week, Elliott would get the start against the San Francisco 49ers due to Dowdle being a late scratch because of being sick, but he only managed a pedestrian 34 yards on 10 carries. Then, things got even...
