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How Brian Daboll compares to other Giants coaches after 42 games

New York Giants head coach Brian Daboll’s record after 42 games isn’t much different than that of many of the team’s best coaches.

The New York Giants have begun the 2024 NFL season by losing six of their first eight games, which has become the norm in East Rutherford in recent years.

The Giants have started seven of their last eight seasons 2-6 (or worse) after eight games. The only exception was 2022 when they got off to a 6-1 start en route to a 9-8 season and a playoff berth.

Head coach Brian Daboll, since taking over the reins as head coach in 2022, is 17-24-1 in the regular season and 1-1 in the postseason.

There have been numerous conversations and articles suggesting that Daboll should be on the hot seat. But looking back a the history of the Giants, his record isn’t much different than that of his predecessors.

Daboll is the 10th man to coach 42 or more games for the Giants in their century-long existence and the seventh since the 1970 NFL-AFL merger.

Here’s where Daboll stands against those other six Giant head coaches after 42 games:

  1. Jim Fassel (23-18-1)
  2. Tom Coughlin and Dan Reeves (23-19)
  3. Bill Parcells (19-22-1)
  4. Alex Webster (19-23)
  5. Brian Daboll (17-24-1)
  6. Ray Perkins (15-27)

So, Daboll is just two games worse than the great Hall of Famer Bill Parcells and ahead of Perkins, who is largely credited with helping to modernize the Giants under general manager George Young after decades of ineptitude.

Still want to fire Daboll? Or do you want to be a little more patient now that you know where he stands in team history?

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Throwback Thursday: Giants defeat Saints at Yankee Stadium in 1972

In the latest Giants Wire Throwback Thursday, we head to 1972 when the New York Giants beat the Archie Manning-led Saints at Yankee Stadium.

Professional football in New York was in a much different place back in 1972. There were two teams playing within the five boroughs, and there were enough fans to go around for both teams regardless of where they were in the standings.

In Flushing, the New York Jets were three years removed from their miracle Super Bowl upset, and Joe Namath’s knees were wearing thin. Up in the Bronx, the New York Giants were trying to find their way back to the NFL playoffs, a place they hadn’t been since 1963.

On Sunday, Oct. 8, the Jets were hosting the powerful Miami Dolphins at Shea Stadium. Miami was 3-0 coming into the game, and Jets were 2-1 after dropping the prior week’s game to the Houston Oilers, 26-20.

The 1-2 Giants were entertaining a winless New Orleans Saints team quarterbacked by Archie Manning.

From the New York Times:

New York was an autumn festival yesterday for pro football fans as both the Giants and Jets played home games. A total of 125,898 fans turned out at Yankee Stadium and Shea Stadium.

At Yankee Stadium, Charlie Evans scored three touch downs to lead the Giants to an easy 45-21 victory over the New Orleans Saints before 62,057. The second‐year pro caught a scoring aerial of 10 yards from Norm Snead and tallied on runs of 24 and 8 yards all in the first half when the Giants were building a 31‐7 lead.

At Shea Stadium, 63,841 saw the Miami Dolphins continue as the only undefeated team in the National Football League with a 27‐17 triumph over the Jets. Bob Griese threw a 17‐yard touch down pass to Howard Twilley and set up two scoring runs by Jim Kiick with passes.

Lots to unpack here. First off, that’s a lot of people going to see football, but that day was perfect weather for it. The Jets sold enough tickets to lift the local TV blackout. The Giants did not — the near 80,000-seat Yankee Stadium was nearly impossible to sell out.

Who was Charlie Evans? Well, he was a 14th-round draft pick of the Giants out of USC in 1971 and was used in tandem with Ron Johnson. As a rookie in 1971, Evans scored three times in a game in San Diego.

This would be his other big game in a Giants uniform. Evans’ 87 yards on that day would be the most in his four-year career. He played in Washington in 1974 and was out of football after that season.

The Giants went on to finish 8-6 for head coach Alex Webster in 1972 but fell shy of the postseason. It would be their last winning season until 1981.

The Jets went on to a 7-7 year and lost to Miami twice. No big deal there as the Dolphins went undefeated that season.

But for those too young to know or remember, football was always a big draw in the Big Apple and this Sunday proved that.

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