There's no sugarcoating it, the 2025 season is going to be a crucial year for the New York Giants head coach Brian Daboll.
After exceeding expectations during Daboll's first season in 2022, which saw the Giants not only make the playoffs but win a playoff game, it has since gone south for the now fourth-year head coach. Since that season, Big Blue has gone 9-25 over the last two seasons, with last year proving to be a franchise-worst for the Giants as they went 3-14, including a franchise-record 10-game losing streak.
Despite the Giants improving vastly during the offseason by signing some big-name free agent players, as well as drafting Penn State standout Abdul Carter with the third overall pick and trading up to draft their potential franchise quarterback, Jaxson Dart, Daboll's leash might not be that long this season.
Brian Daboll (unsurprisingly) named a head coach on the hot seat this season
While this may not come as a surprise, especially after John Mara expressed apparent impatience following last season's disaster, an article for CBS Sports by Tyler Sullivan has Daboll deemed a head coach on the hot seat this year.
Even though the Giants enter this season with the NFL's toughest strength of schedule, which includes opening on the road this year against the Washington Commanders and Dallas Cowboys, as well as hosting the reigning AFC champions, the Kansas City Chiefs. The Giants' ownership's desire to win now might just overshadow New York's brutal schedule in 2025.
However, this seems like a fresh, clean slate for Daboll and Joe Schoen, as they were able to draft their own quarterback and land potentially the best player of the entire draft in Carter.
Schoen was able to rectify the offseason blunders he made last year, when he chose to let Saquon Barkley and Xavier McKinney depart in free agency. Both, of course, went on to have career years with Barkley in particular rushing for over 2,000 yards and winning a Super Bowl with the Philadelphia Eagles.
This seems to be finally Brian Daboll's team, which has a real chance to right the ship for a Giants team that quite simply has been a laughing stock in the league over the last several seasons.
With Daboll raving about how much Dart has impressed him, as well as having a (hopefully) improved offensive line, a potentially scary running back duo in Tyrone Tracy Jr. and Cam Skattebo, and a solid wide receiving core, it may be hard to justify the Giants' ownership making another head coaching change.