The New York Giants have begun the 2024 NFL season by losing six of their first eight games, which has become the norm in East Rutherford in recent years.
The Giants have started seven of their last eight seasons 2-6 (or worse) after eight games. The only exception was 2022 when they got off to a 6-1 start en route to a 9-8 season and a playoff berth.
Head coach Brian Daboll, since taking over the reins as head coach in 2022, is 17-24-1 in the regular season and 1-1 in the postseason.
There have been numerous conversations and articles suggesting that Daboll should be on the hot seat. But looking back a the history of the Giants, his record isn’t much different than that of his predecessors.
Daboll is the 10th man to coach 42 or more games for the Giants in their century-long existence and the seventh since the 1970 NFL-AFL merger.
Here’s where Daboll stands against those other six Giant head coaches after 42 games:
- Jim Fassel (23-18-1)
- Tom Coughlin and Dan Reeves (23-19)
- Bill Parcells (19-22-1)
- Alex Webster (19-23)
- Brian Daboll (17-24-1)
- Ray Perkins (15-27)
So, Daboll is just two games worse than the great Hall of Famer Bill Parcells and ahead of Perkins, who is largely credited with helping to modernize the Giants under general manager George Young after decades of ineptitude.
Still want to fire Daboll? Or do you want to be a little more patient now that you know where he stands in team history?
