Insider discusses if Giants' Brian Daboll, Joe Schoen are 'safe'

Before the New York Giants suffered a brutal season-opening 28-6 home loss to the Minnesota Vikings last Sunday, NFL insider Connor Hughes of SNY reported that Giants co-owner John Mara had not "completely promised" that head coach Brian Daboll and general manager Joe Schoen will hold onto their jobs if the club endures another awful campaign.

For a mailbag published on Thursday, well-known NFL reporter Albert Breer of Sports Illustrated touched upon whether Daboll and Schoen are "safe" heading into the fall.

"I do think Giants ownership really likes those two and wants to stay the course with them," Breer said about Daboll and Schoen. "They went through three consecutive two-and-out coaches, and my feeling is [they] were pretty embarrassed in enduring it."

Breer added that the Giants "really were committed to sticking with Joe Judge ... into a third year until things became untenable at the end" of Judge's tenure.

It was reported back in December 2021 before Judge accumulated an overall record of 10-23 as Giants head coach that he likely was safe. However, that story surfaced before Big Blue suffered four consecutive double-digit losses to close out that campaign and before Judge delivered a couple of odd rants that helped seal his fate.

More recently, Daboll and Schoen guided the 2022 Giants to a playoff berth and a road postseason victory before the club finished last season with a 6-11 record. Some have recently criticized Schoen for assembling a lackluster roster, and the decision to sign quarterback Daniel Jones in March 2023 to a four-year contract currently looks like a massive mistake even though the Giants can escape that deal next offseason.

"They’ve always viewed themselves as a model of stability in a league rife with instability," Breer added about the Giants. "They badly want to get back to actually being that."

Daboll and his players can temporarily silence chatter about Mara possibly blowing things up in January 2025 by earning a victory at the 0-1 Washington Commanders this Sunday. With that said, whispers about Bill Belichick returning "home" to the Giants may grow louder if New York is thoroughly outplayed for a second straight game.