Brian Burns said on Tuesday that Charlie Bullen, promoted on Monday to interim defensive coordinator of the New York Giants after the firing of Shane Bowen, is “going to shoot it straight to you.”

“Charlie is a guy that he’s going to shoot it straight to you,” Burns said. “You’re not really going to sugar coat much, and yeah, he’s going to demand your best because he’s going to give you his.”

The selection by interim head coach Mike Kafka of the 41-year-old Bullen, who has never been a defensive coordinator at any level over more experienced coaches like Marquand...

Former New York Giants quarterback Eli Manning has advanced to the semifinal round in the voting for the Pro Football Hall of Fame Class of 2026, the second straight year he has reached that stage.

Let’s be honest, though. Manning is not going to be part of the Hall of Fame Class of 2026. Nor is he likely to be part of any Hall of Fame class in the near future.

That is because Pro Football Hall of Fame bylaws limit the selection to between four and eight new members each year. The competition for that limited number of gold...

Wan’Dale Robinson had a career game in Sunday’s 34-27 loss by the New York Giants to the Detroit Lions. Let’s break it down.

Robinson had four catches for 106 yards in the first quarter; he was the first New York Giants’ receiver to eclipse the century mark in the first quarter since Hakeem Nicks in 2011. Robinson finished the game with nine catches on 14 targets for a career high 156 yards with a touchdown (17.3 yards per catch).

Robinson had a career high 4.24 yards per route run; his previous career high was set in Week 2 of this...

The New York Giants fired defensive coordinator Shane Bowen on Monday after their latest defensive collapse.

The Giants have coughed up six leads, five of them double-digit leads, en route to their 2-10 record on the season. Firing Bowen was a move that had to happen, though I’d argue it probably should have happened after the 2024 season. Instead, the Giants decided on a massive infusion of talent on the defensive side of the ball.

Cornerback Paulson Adebo and safety Jevon Holland were widely considered to be among the top young free agents in last year’s class. Defensive end Chauncey...

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From Big of Blue View

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• Giants head coach Mike Kafka says it was ‘right time’ to move on from Shane Bowen
• ‘Things I think’: The Giants could be having a fun year — instead, they have made a mess
• ‘Kudos and Wet Willies’: Mike Kafka, offense impress while Giants defense loses again
• Dexter Lawrence was in tears on sideline for NY Giants OT loss to Giants
• [Mike Kafka says fourth-down decision to try for TD ‘was a...

The New York Giants have terminated the contract of placekicker Jude McAtamney from their practice squad. McAtamney, a second-year kicker from Rutgers, missed three extra points in two weeks while subbing for an injured Graham Gano earlier this season.

When Gano returned from his first injury, a groin issue, McAtamney was released and re-signed to the practice squad.

When Gano was forced to go to injured reserve due to a herniated disc in his neck, the Giants promoted veteran placekicker Younghoe Koo from the practice squad, bypassing McAtamney.

The Giants also recently added rookie placekicker Ben Sauls to their practice...

Welcome to the Fantasy Football Waiver Wire for Week 13, and an early Happy Thanksgiving to all!

Thanksgiving week is tricky for fantasy, with three games on Thanksgiving Day, one on Black Friday, eleven on Sunday, and one on Monday. That also makes it a tricky week for marriages/relationships. I don’t pretend to offer relationship advice. But for fantasy, it can be hard to navigate that kind of staggered schedule with players who are uncertain to play due to injuries — and there are plenty of those.

The good news is that for the first time since Week 4, no...

You don’t have to sit in front of a screen for hours dissecting every player’s performance on every play the way the people at Pro Football Focus do to figure out why the New York Giants lost on Sunday. Furthermore, PFF only grades players, not coaches and general managers. Still, let’s see how many pleasant surprises (if any) there were yesterday in the Giants’ unfathomable 34-27 overtime loss to the Detroit Lions.

Offense

PFF grades

First, the offense as a whole, which is playing admirably without its top skill players:

Now let’s look at the details. First, the...

Nobody could accuse NY Giants nose tackle Dexter Lawrence of not caring.

Giants’ interim head coach Mike Kafka revealed on Monday morning that the normally gregarious Lawrence was in tears on the sideline due to the fact that he couldn’t be on the field with his teammates as the game went to overtime.

“I mean,” Kafka said, “this guy was like in tears on the sideline just wanting to be out there with the players and gave us his all.”

“Again, he was a guy that was battling through this game, this injury,” Kafka added. “Just toughed it out for...

Interim head coach Mike Kafka confirmed on Monday morning that Shane Bowen has been fired and that outside linebackers coach Charlie Bullen will take over as interim defensive coordinator for the New York Giants.

Kafka’s decision reversed course after he had said following Sunday’s 34-27 overtime loss that he had “a lot of confidence” in Bowen. It came two games into Kafka’s tenure as interim after the firing of former head coach Brian Daboll.

“I just had an opportunity to watch the tape, look back at a few weeks, watch a lot of the defense, watch a lot of what...

The New York Giants have — finally — fired defensive coordinator Shane Bowen.

After the Giants blew a lead and lost a game for the sixth time this season on Sunday against the Detroit Lions, interim head coach Mike Kafka decided to move on from the heavily-criticized Bowen.

Bowen was hired by former coach Brian Daboll before the 2024 season to replace Wink Martindale, a popular, extremely aggressive coordinator. Bowen’s more conservative, four-man rush philosophy is a sharp contrast to the “pressure breaks pipes” blitz-oriented schemes Martindale employed in two seasons with New York.

The Giants have lost five games...

Here is a look at what others are saying after the New York Giants fell to 2-10 on Sunday with another awful loss, this one to the Detroit Lions in overtime 34-27.

Giants ended up being wrong even when Mike Kafka’s late gamble was right | New York Post

If the Giants tell you it’s a bright and sunny day, pack your umbrella and rain boots. It’s gonna be a deluge.

If the Giants tell you it’s Sunday, make sure you put on your work clothes and head into the office, because it actually is Monday....