Since the departure of Tom Coughlin, the New York Giants have sought to find the next coach who will last more than a couple of years.
Brian Daboll marks the fifth head coach the Giants have had in the almost 10 years since Coughlin was shown the door, and if he doesn’t make the playoffs this season, the seat is going to get warm.
One of the coaches the Giants brought in over that span was Joe Judge, who had zero head coaching experience when hired. He spent 2012-2019 with the New England Patriots under Bill Belichick and had been a special teams coordinator but had no inkling of what being a head coach meant.
Former Giants wide receiver Golden Tate says this is where the Giants went wrong.
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“My time with the Giants was interesting. My last year was during the COVID year and that just sucked because we had to play just about every single game with no fans in the stadium, so it felt like a scrimmage. It sucked,” Tate said.
“And on top of that, I had one of the Patriots’ descendants come on over, Joseph Judge, who thought he could remake the wheel by trying to do everything like Tom Brady and Bill Belichick and it did not fly.”
After Coughlin, the Giants kept taking steps backward with coaches under Dave Gettleman. Bed McAdoo, Pat Shurmur, Steve Spagnuolo (interim), and Judge.
Judge was the final straw that led to the firing of Gettleman when he won just 10 games of the 33 he coached.
The days of Gettleman are over, though, and the Joe Schoen era is upon us. Daboll has a lot to prove this season, both inside the locker room and on the field.
But Dabs has already won more games than his four predecessors, so if the Giants bounce back this season, maybe things start to really turn around for the franchise going forward.
