For New York Giants fans, Nov. 10, 2025, will forever be the day that changed the outlook of a downtrodden franchise with seemingly no escape. After starting the season 2-8 for the third time in three years, the front office finally said enough is enough and fired head coach Brian Daboll.
A lot went into the decision to move on from the fourth-year coach, but ultimately, it was this strange obsession with losing — and doing so in the most egregious ways possible. Up 18 points with six minutes left? Chalk it up as a loss. Up three with 25 seconds left? You can pencil that one in, too.
Losing four straight, 11 straight on the road, blowing four double-digit leads on the road this season, and going 11-33 over the past two and a half years did the 50-year-old in. Crazy that it took that much to wake ownership up, but apparently the planes over MetLife finally got their attention.
Not everyone was a fan of the firing. Mr. Contrarian clearly wasn't about it — because, obviously. On Monday's episode of The Herd with Colin Cowherd, Cowherd had a scathing reaction to Daboll's firing:
"Brian Daboll has been fired. I think it's idiotic. The New York franchises don't know what they're doing. ... The best coach the Giants have is Brian Daboll, who works really well with Jaxson Dart. So you're going to let him walk out of the building, and then you're going to have the third- or fourth-best coach on the staff take over as the interim guy, and if he wins a couple games, every fan's going to be going, 'Hey, that's our guy!' Never fire the best coach on your staff, and if you have to, do it at the end of a season."
Colin Cowherd’s defense of Brian Daboll is the latest in his long line of head-scratchers
Listen, Cowherd has always been... different. He infamously said LeBron James should retire because Ben Simmons was going to take over the NBA and is more fun to watch, back in 2018. That's aged like milk.
It’s safe to say this one will, too.
What has Colin been watching that would suggest Daboll was ever going to turn things around? Based on his own thought process — which is, let’s be honest, a little suspect — he essentially ranked the Giants’ coaching staff by vibe, assigning them value based on... what, exactly?
Cowherd wasn’t the only TV personality to weigh in on the news. ESPN analyst and former NFL quarterback Dan Orlovsky chimed in on NFL Live with a quick, “This is a mistake by the New York Giants.”
Both guys pointed to Daboll’s work with rookie quarterback Jaxson Dart as the reason Big Blue should’ve stuck it out. I get it — QB is the most important position in sports — but sacrificing the rest of the roster and the locker room dynamic to preserve one player-coach relationship is wild behavior. There’s a reason there are 53 players on the team.
In steps interim head coach and former offensive coordinator Mike Kafka, who’s got plenty of quarterback pedigree himself. Not everyone’s going to agree with letting Dabs go, but at some point, going 5-22 over your last 27 games catches up to you, regardless of circumstance.