Have patience, they said. Then the New York Giants blew a 19-point fourth-quarter lead in Denver — and did nothing about it. It’ll all work out, they followed up. But after another defensive meltdown in Philadelphia on Sunday, sitting on their hands is no longer an option. It’s time to make a coaching change.
At what point are Giants fans allowed to be heard? I swear Big Blue’s defense is stuck in an endless game of Charades, doing its best Swiss cheese impersonation. It's embarrassing. And the puppet master — defensive coordinator Shane Bowen — is at the center of it all, pulling the strings. If the G-Men's 38-20 Week 8 loss in the City of Brotherly Love showed us anything, it's that head coach Brian Daboll needs to move on from Bowen yesterday.
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Seriously, leave him in Philly. There is no excuse for what's happening with this defense right now. It was once heralded as the team's strength heading into the 2025 season, but eight games in, it's been anything but, and there's no time like the present to make the change fans have been clamoring for since Dabs hired the 38-year-old in 2024.
Shane Bowen is to blame for Giants' atrocious defensive efforts in Week 8
The Eagles bodied the Giants from the opening kickoff to the final whistle in one of the more embarrassing losses this team has continued to endure.
Philly scored on six of its nine possessions, finishing the game with 427 yards (151 through the air and 276 on the ground). There's nothing more frustrating than seeing the same mistakes appear over and over again, but watching this defense miss tackles, lack gap discipline, and play soft eight weeks into a season takes frustration to a whole other level.
And that might not even be the most alarming part. The Eagles did all of that without star wide receiver A.J. Brown for the contest, and the G-Men still couldn't do a thing to stop their offense. It's all infuriating.
And it's officially time that Bowen needs to be held accountable. How many times is Daboll going to let him off the hook for fundamentally not understanding how to get the most out of a defense headlined by players like Dexter Lawrence, Brian Burns, and Abdul Carter? It's a joke.
Consider this a formal warning: Bowen running the defense isn’t just on him anymore. It’s on Daboll. It’s on general manager Joe Schoen. It’s on anyone still pretending this defense is just going to wake up one morning and figure it out. Keep ignoring it, and they’ll all be held accountable soon enough.