Just like his predecessor, Mike Kafka hasn't moved the needle for the New York Giants this season. Since taking over as interim head coach after Brian Daboll's firing, the Giants are 0-3 with losses against three superior opponents, but only looked competitive against the Packers and Lions.
Week 14 against the New England Patriots told a vastly different story, as Big Blue was thrashed 33-15 on Monday Night Football. Things got so bad that the Giants were punting down multiple scores on fourth and short, which all but confirms the locker room problems didn't leave when Daboll did.
The fanbase is starting to turn on him, and WFAN's Tommy Lugauer was first in line. After the loss, Lugauer went off on the 38-year-old, citing his lack of urgency as evidence he's an unqualified head coach, even saying Kafka has no business coaching another game with the Giants after that disaster.
New York radio host is the first of many New Yorkers to admit Mike Kafka is unqualified to be a head coach
The G-Men looked completely defeated on the road, so it's not hard to see where Loogy is coming from. He's been presented with a golden opportunity to throw his hat in the ring to be the permanent head coach, but it's become crystal clear that he's not the answer to all of this franchise's problems.
Joe Schoen said earlier this week that Kafka would get a serious look for the coaching vacancy, which means that Week 13 was the worst possible impression he could've made to ownership. Schoen might be running he search as of now, but Kafka's performance might be what finally does him in.
With him succeeding Daboll, the bar was six feet underground, but he still managed to fall short of expectations. With Daboll, the locker room was incredibly fractured, but with Kafka, the locker room instead looks straight-up emotionless, which simultaneously checks out and makes zero sense.
Kafka did a solid job against both Green Bay and Detroit, as he kept New York in one-score games with two of the best teams in the NFC. But against a Mike Vrabel-led Patriots team, who would be the top seed in the AFC if the season ended today, things came to a crashing halt because of Kafka.
It doesn't help that Jaxson Dart didn't play well and the defense had no answers for Drake Maye, but for a coach who was given an audition to see if he can stabilize things, it's not a good look. Disciplining Abdul Carter helps, but conservative play-calling for a two-win team surely doesn't.
And everything from Monday is just proof he's a coach destined to remain an offensive coordinator.