The New York Giants and their fan base have endured a brutal few days. It looked like they were going to snap their three-game losing streak in Week 10 against the Chicago Bears, as they led 20-10 with four minutes remaining. But the Bears then scored twice to win 24-20 in a stunning comeback.
On Monday, the Giants finally cut ties with Brian Daboll after the head coach fended off this fate for longer than most expected. But another blown fourth-quarter lead was the final nail in the coffin for the Daboll era in New York.
Mika Kafka will step up from offensive coordinator to interim head coach, and he'll try to lead this Giants team out of the darkness and parlay it into a full-time head coaching gig. But Daboll accidentally left him an ugly gift in his final game that Kafka will need to rectify.
Giants' loss to Bears gave them worse record than Jets in last 5 years
On Sunday evening, The Ringer's Sheil Kapadia reported that after the Giants' shocking loss to the Bears, and the obviously-tanking New York Jets' improbable win against the Cleveland Browns in Week 10, the Jets now have a better record than the Giants over the last five years.
After today's results, the Giants now have a worse record than the Jets over the last 5(!) years.
— Sheil Kapadia (@SheilKapadia) November 10, 2025
Jets: 25-52
Giants: 24-53-1
Jets fans: This is the day to text your Giants fans friends.
Although the Giants have played one more game, their 24-53-1 record since the beginning of the 2021 season equates to a 31.4% win percentage. The Jets' 25-52 mark means they have won 32.5% of their games in that span, which is just marginally better.
At the end of the day, these are mere semantics because neither team has amounted to much in this decade. The Giants do, however, have a playoff appearance -- and win -- on their resume in the 2020s, which is not nothing. In fact, it's more than the Jets have had since 2011.
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But all that matters in the present, and this statistic serves the purpose of proving just how far removed this Giants team is from any playoff success. It's why they pulled the plug on Daboll, and it's why the fan base is so rabid to return relevancy.
The Jets are well-equipped with draft picks for the future, as they had a ridiculous fire sale of their franchise cornerstones at the trade deadline. But they don't have the biggest piece of the puzzle, the quarterback situation, figured out, which, as they've seen this season, can be debilitating.
With Jaxson Dart under center, players like Cam Skattebo, Tyrone Tracy, Malik Nabers, and Abdul Carter all under contract for several years, the core of this team is bright. Dabs may have left a bad taste in fans' mouths by dropping them an inch or two below the Jets in his swan song as the team's head coach, but hopefully, plenty of success follows in his wake.