The only part of Sunday more laughable than the sarcastically melodramatic finish of the Snoopy Bowl was the moment when Giants fans decided to make the loss some kind of referendum on Brian Daboll who, just a year ago, won the NFL’s Coach of the Year award.
This is typical of the fan base that, somewhat infamously, tried to run off Tom Coughlin myriad times before, and in between a pair of Super Bowl wins, and certainly after them, despite the fact that the organization has been hopelessly adrift ever since. Now because Daboll, who plucked his third-string quarterback off the Jersey Shore, played a conservative game in an intermittent downpour, he’s apparently got something to answer for.
Here’s the reality: Daboll overcoached a team that was meant to look, in 2022, what it looks like in ’23. Thankfully, the Giants realized as much and suspended their collective delusions, breaking open the trade deadline with a deal that sent Leonard Williams to the Seahawks for second- and fifth-round picks. This is proof that the Giants understand what the fan base cannot: They have something special here, and it’s time to give their coaching staff the runway to build an actual winning football team.
