Giants HC Brian Daboll keeps doubling down on a questionable decision that’s holding New York back
New York Giants head coach Brian Daboll won’t commit to making any changes on defense.
The New York Giants’ season is snowballing into an embarrassing season for numerous reasons.
The most glaring is their poor defensive play over the course of the year, especially in their losses to the Philadelphia Eagles, Denver Broncos, and San Francisco 49ers. With the defense being gashed in multiple games and playing with poor effort, it’s clear the Giants need to make a change at defensive coordinator.
Despite fans’ pleas to fire defensive coordinator Shane Bowen or at least allow someone else to call plays, he’s chosen to double down. When asked today by the media whether Bowen is still the defensive coordinator, he replied bluntly.
“He is,” Daboll told reporters.
The Giants have a Shane Bowen problem
The Giants’ 34-24 loss in Week 9 epitomized the team’s defensive struggles this year. They visibly had no answers against a better-coached, better-developed team that easily beat them into submission.
Per NFL Pro, 49ers backup quarterback Mac Jones averaged a rapid time to throw of 2.36 seconds on 19 completions for 235 yards. During the game, it was visible that Jones had an easy time quickly diagnosing the Giants’ defense and finding his playmakers in space.
Additionally, the run defense was easily exposed once again. Running back Christian McCaffrey finished with 106 yards and a touchdown. Backup running back Brian Robinson, with only five carries, finished with three explosive runs of 10+ yards and a touchdown for a total of 53 yards.
There wasn’t a single drive during the game where it felt like the Giants could gain control and shift the momentum. Instead, they were constantly on their heels after every snap. Once again, Daboll today stated there isn’t a specific issue leading to the poor defensive play.
“It wasn’t one person. It wasn’t one position. It wasn’t one call. It wasn’t one missed tackle,” Daboll told the media, “Just overall, we need to be better.”
With Daboll’s job on the line and the season slipping away each week, you’d think Daboll would be more deliberate about holding his team and coaches accountable. Daboll was asked what he thinks the team needs to improve on.
“There’s a number of things – technique, to maybe change up the scheme a little bit, to open field tackling. Everything that’s important on defense we’ve gotta do a better job of.”
The most infuriating part of his last quote is his noncommittal stance on the possibility of changing the scheme. I can understand not wanting to reveal that significant adjustments are coming. However, when the fan base has completely turned its back on you, you need to be direct in what is going to improve instead of regurgitating the same canned response every week.
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Giants HC Brian Daboll still refuses to make the obvious change holding New York back after loss to the 49ers
The New York Giants defense chose not to show up in their Week 9 loss to the San Francisco 49ers.
