Say what you want about whether Brian Daboll has gotten a truly-fair shot with the New York Giants, but the fact of the matter is, he might be running out of time. Whether that's fair or not, at some point, becomes irrelevant.
Some fans are wondering if the Giants are going to fire Daboll if things don't go his way in 2025. One fan asked Sports Illustrated's Albert Breer a very specific version of this question in a recent column:
"If the Giants are 0–6 after Week 6, could we expect Giants ownership to fire Daboll and Schoen in season?"
The NFL insider threw some cold water on that idea, though.
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"Jimmy, I don’t think so. It’s just hard for me to see owner John Mara pulling the trigger on something like that, unless things have descended into a pretty serious level of chaos," Breer wrote.
"I think, at the very least, he’d want to see the results that the current staff might be able to get with the young quarterback in there—because you’d assume that if the Giants fall out of the race, the time to throw Dart out there would probably come."
On the surface, this makes sense. Again, this can be spun about being fair versus unfair. Daboll didn't choose Daniel Jones, so one might make the argument that this is his first real shot at, well, calling the shots. The Giants drafted Jaxson Dart in the first round with one idea in mind, and that's to eventually make him the starter.
But, to fire Daboll after (or within) Dart's rookie campaign would be self sabotage on the front office's part. This season would have to go completely off the rails for Daboll to get canned.
Now, if you ask some Giants fans, they might tell you that's exactly what they're expecting based on Week 1 overreactions. It wasn't pretty. Russell Wilson looked like a shell of his former self.
For Daboll's sake, the majority of this fan base has to be hoping we see Dart sooner rather than later. Getting the youngster in there will, at the very least, buy Daboll some more time. Now, if this team falls apart a year from now and fails to take any positive steps, then we're having a different conversation.