Big Blue View
As the final day of the 2025-26 NFL regular season dawns, it appears that the New York Giants are going to retain embattled general manager Joe Schoen. Report after report in recent days has indicated that despite overseeing a team that has gone 12-38 since the beginning of the 2023 season that is the choice the Giants intend to make.
Dianna Russini of The Athletic joined a chorus on NFL insiders reporting similar information when she wrote on Saturday that Schoen “appears to be safe for now.”
That will not be a popular decision with many in the Giants’ fan base and media.
I certainly understand why. There has been too much losing the last three seasons. The GM’s personnel miscues, and maybe his desire to hire Brian Daboll as head coach in 2022 instead of Brian Flores, have contributed.
The Giants, though, appear willing to ride with Schoen. At least a little bit longer.
It is a decision I can understand. I might even go so far as to say that it is the right decision. Probably. Until I change my mind. No, seriously, I think that given where they are the shortest path to success for the Giants likely involves keeping Schoen and pairing him with the right coach.
If you believe, as ownership clearly indicated it does when they fired Daboll and announced that Schoen would lead the search for a new coach, there is talent on the roster that has not been maximized, that’s an argument for keeping Schoen.
If you believe, as I do, that the Giants should have been somewhere around .500 this year, you likely believe the right coach and a few more pieces can turn them into the 2026 version of this year’s Chicago Bears. That, too, is an argument for keeping Schoen.
What you should not want, in my view, is a complete tear down. That is what you are almost certainly going to get if you fire the GM. You are going to get a completely rebuilt front office and scouting staff. You are going to get a torn down and rebuilt roster. All of that will take a few seasons to implement. Do you want to waste Jaxson Dart’s rookie contract doing that?
I still maintain that the Giants have been through too much upheaval since forcing Tom Coughlin out the door after the 2015 season. Much of that, of course, has been due to their own bad choices.
Still, with Dart, Malik Nabers, Cam Skattebo and some of the other pieces they have I believe the Giants are at a place where they should want to build upon what they have rather than blow it up, maybe select a different quarterback, send Nabers, Dexter Lawrence, Brian Burns and anyone else other teams would take packing and start over.
What they have to do is GET THE RIGHT COACH.
Something Ralph Vacchiano of FOX Sports, a one-time Giants beat writer, wrote in a recent column, captures the way I...
