At the top, it’s important to make this point: You can offer fair and winning testimony that neither New York football team should even have considered changing their head football coaches.
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At the top, it’s important to make this point: You can offer fair and winning testimony that neither New York football team should even have considered changing their head football coaches
Brian Daboll’s case is easier. He is a year removed from being the NFL’s Coach of the Year.
His team went 6-11 this year, and a guy who used to hold his job always cautioned “you are what your record says you are,” but the Giants were also playing much better at the end of the year than they were at the start, and it didn’t take much imagination (or more than a couple of plays) to turn six wins into nine — in which case there’d have been a legit shot they’d have squeezed into the playoffs.
If Daboll is lately being portrayed in certain circles as a sideline tyrant whose temper renders him a cross between late-Indiana Bob Knight and the drill sergeant from “Full Metal Jacket” … well, a little anger never seemed to adversely affect Vince Lombardi or Bill Parcells.
It’s a little harder for Robert Saleh, whose 7-10 matches last year’s underwhelming record, whose lifetime mark of 18-33 is plenty fireable on the surface and whose sideline performance has yet to inspire many to declare him the second coming of Weeb Ewbank. Or even Walt Michaels.
Still, Saleh’s job security is even more solid that Daboll’s for one reason and one reason only: He has the Aaron Rodgers seal of approval.
Now we can go 15 rounds over whether that’s the best way to run a football team — spoiler alert: it is not — but that’s simply the law of the land in Florham Park.
Saleh was getting Year 4 as long as Rodgers was signed up .
