Giants Nearly Fired Brian Daboll?! Major Shake-Up Coming in New York

Giants Nearly Fired Brian Daboll?! Major Shake-Up Coming in New York

is indeed Evan and Tiki on a Thursday. Tiki out today. He will be back tomorrow. It is a jam-packed show. The New York Yankees have a huge decision to make in the next three hours regarding Trent Gisham. We will get to that later. Alex Rodriguez has responded to Brian Cman. We will get to that later. And Matthew Schaefer is doing everything he can to become the new king of New York sports. You’ll hear about that later on in the program as well. Sean Morz was sitting in the big chair and he says to me right before the show, he says, “Evan, I got something big.” And I said, “Excuse me.” Okay. And he says, “Now seriously, throw the open of the show to me cuz I got something.” So I don’t know what it is. I am like the rest of the audience, but apparently Shawn Morash, who is I I give him a lot of credit. He’s got sources. He talks to a lot of people. Finally, it’s about to pay off because Shawn Morash has something big to tell us about New York sports. So, Sean, my mic is off. The floor is yours. So, a couple days ago, Evan, the great Paul Schwarz puts out a back page story, split ticket. Don’t assume Joe Shane and Brian Dable are tied together. Now, that could do a couple things. It could cause outrage or it could cause antennas to go up. My antennas were up cuz I’m frustrated obviously following this Giant team as we all are. So, I’ve done some poking around. I’ve done some digging around and I’ve now gotten this from multiple people I trust, which is why I’m gonna come here with it. The Giants were firing Brian Dable off the plane after the collapse in Denver. Really? He was fired. Fired. And ownership got together. Cooler heads prevailed and they decided not to fire Brian Dable off the plane in Denver. But in the immediiacy of that collapse, the decision to throw on third and five like Tiki had crushed after that game, enough apparently was enough from people of importance with the Giants that he was fired off the plane in Denver and cooler heads have prevailed, which has now led to stories about the split ticket. Brian Dable’s as good as gone and was basically gone two weeks ago. Wow. If not for somebody stepping up within ownership and and calming that down. Now, you don’t know the specific names because I can just summize myself. You can summize. I will tell you that the person making the decision to fire him was not Joe Shane in that moment, but you could summize from there. It’s ownership. Ownership. To to me, I’ve always said this, me and John Mar have a lot in common. We’re both fans. We’re both diehard fans. We both get angry when our team loses. So, I would summize that John Maro wanted him fired and then maybe he was, as you said, talked out of it. That shows you that he is dead man walking Brian Dable that it is very difficult to survive this season if he was already halfway fired. And you know what that reminds me of? If your reporting is true and I have no reason to believe it’s not. I’m going to choose to trust you because boy do you talk to a lot of annoying people. Would I be coming here today? Have I ever done that in the history of the show? No. No. No. No. You don’t you don’t just say stuff for attention or make stuff up. But it actually reminds me of Woody Johnson wanting to bench Aaron Rodgers after a loss to Denver and he having to be talked out of it. And then ultimately, and the reason I say that is because ultimately that showed you the handwriting that was on the wall and eventually Aaron Rogers was gone. Obviously, they didn’t bring him back and a lot of that’s connected to ownership. If you already have higherups in the Giant organization, I am summising it is ownership. I am summising it would be Mr. Mara already ready to fire the man in the middle of a season, then it’s over and there’s nothing that can change that. Uh, it is over. And as somebody here, and I’ve been vocal about being a Brian Dable supporter. I who am I to defend it anymore? I I mean, and you look back in hindsight, Denver was embarrassing. I might have tried to sweep under the rug. I know Tiki was aggravated about it, but it’s a long line of four years or I guess three really three years of embarrassments from this Giant team. And the Giants were a punchline and a laughingstock and that appeared to be at least temporarily a final stroll. So look, what does that mean? Does Brian Dable coach out the string these last few weeks? Is there going to be another moment where the team decides to find maybe? I don’t know. But if you had already made that decision, I’m with you, Evan. After the Denver game, there’s no point even conversing that what can Brian Dable do to save his job. He’s toast. He’s toast. I I don’t see how he could. Uh, and then it will just lead to further questions about, well, why the hell is Joe Shane here with him? I have some questions. Okay. Because you seem to know, did it ever get to Brian Dable? Was Brian Dable ever fired and unfired Steinbrer like? I tried to find that out. I truly do not know. It does lead me to questions about Brian Dable’s face and maybe Pat Leonard ask him if he was crying after last week’s game, but um I I truly I truly do not know and I don’t have concrete evidence it ever got to Brian Dable. Unfortunately, I’m assuming it’ll get to him now, but yes. So, you’re saying after the Denver game, and of course, for those that are forgetting, that was the epic fourth quarter collapse which featured, and there were many plays that we could go over, but certainly Tikki was crazily about that third down play in which Jackson Dart dropped back to pass. He ended up throwing an interception, but a lot of it wasn’t even about the interception. It was about the play call and the fact that they were throwing the ball and the fact that it was a coaching malpractice of a decision. That game in particular caused someone in ownership or in the front office to say, “I’m done with Brian Dable. I’m firing him.” And needed to be talked out of it. Yes, that’s exactly what happened. And here we are. Here we are. And the losses continue to mount since. And it is worth noting cuz did bring this up which also made me think of it. How ridiculous it is that this team is going to be featured in the NFC East Hard Knocks with the cameras in the building. Yeah. Yeah. How did the Giants become a walking punchline to the NFL on that show? Are they going to drag this out once those cameras come in? And we got to poo the caller when he said the other day. It’s making me wonder. I mean, we got two weeks until that really starts filming. Is Brian Dable going to survive these two weeks? I don’t know. Well, look, I I remember arguing with you guys about this last year. The idea of firing a coach in the middle of the season does nothing. It really serves very little purpose. And we saw the impact it had on the Jets a year ago. It made things worse. The one area where I’d pause where it may be different with the New York Giants is to give Mike Kafka a look. And also, if you’ve firmly decided, this guy’s gone. I’m not bringing him back. There’s nothing that can happen over the final weeks of the season that’s going to change my mind. Then why keep him around? Like only bad things can happen. Whether it’s running with Jackson Dart late in games down by 30 points where there could be a brutal injury or decisions that are made are not in the betterment of the team. So, what I would say to the Giants, and I’ve gotten to this place already, but I don’t run the New York Giants. I’m just the guy on the radio. If I’ve gotten to the place running the New York Football Giants where I know Brian Dable is not my guy and he’s not my head coach and I’m not bringing him back for 2026, then this would be one of those rare circumstances where it would make sense to fire him now, remove any possibility of him doing any kind of damage to this team over the final how many weeks of the season and then simultaneously give Mike Kovka a relatively fair opportunity to coach this team and see what it looks like. This is the first time where I can move into that area and say it could make sense given the circumstances. I could hear the argument for it making sense. But if I play devil’s advocate on a second, I would ask this. What is the reason that you get talked out of firing a guy after Denver? It probably has to do with Jackson Dart. The fact that you know what, under any circumstance, we don’t want to throw more problems in this kid’s way. And clearly at a bare minimum, Dable’s doing a good job with Jackson Dart, right? So if you’re going to do that, then have CFKA coach him. You’re also then asking a locker room that right now is just watching another season spiral out of control. Do you think they’re really going to be woken up by firing the head coach in there? Is that really giving Kfka a fair look if he starts coaching what becomes an even better locker room? I don’t know if you look back and Jason Garrett’s always the one that jumps out at me where we did see an interimm head coach survive and become the full-time head coach. Mhm. Sometimes there can be a level of success. If you go back to Dallas when Jerry Jones decided to fire Wade Phillips and Jason Garrett got the opportunity to coach the team the rest of the season, obviously he did a good enough job to keep the job. Antonio Pierce did a good enough job to keep the job. Like there are examples where guys get that interimm tag and the team doesn’t just collectively quit. My point to you is if they’ve already decided that Brian Dable isn’t the answer and based on what you’re telling me, somebody pretty far power powerful in giant ownership did because they ready to fire him two weeks ago, then keeping him around for the final seven, eight weeks of the year could probably do more harm than good. And again, I am not a proponent usually of firing a coach in the middle of the season because I don’t think it serves a purpose. But in this case, it might it may actually serve a purpose. And certainly the team has not responded in the two weeks that have followed that game regardless. Anyway, so I mean the idea that he hasn’t been in the couple weeks that have followed probably tells me that they want to try to make it through the full season, right? Otherwise, you made that decision. Nothing has changed in the two weeks since and yet he’s still the head coach. But I don’t know. I don’t know if giving Mike Kfka a look if that if that’s a fair representation of because what if it goes bad then you’re going to ultimately assume that he can’t be a head coach either? Not necessarily. It wouldn’t help. I mean, I’m not going to lie to you. I mean, it’s not spot. I’m probably not going to be in a rush to hire him. crushed Spagnola as a head coach as well for a second opportunity. Remember when he got to be an interim on a team that was basically dead in the water, he did nothing to help that team and then whoever viewed him as a true head coaching. But the one difference is if Mike Kafka takes over for a fired Brian Dable is he’s got this young stud of a quarterback that he gets to play with. And so I would say he has a better chance of succeeding than most other coaches. But are you hurting are you hurting the quarterback’s development if you fire the offensive-minded head coaches trying to mold him and his play caller has to now put more on his plate? Are you hurting the quarterback’s development to keep a head coach that you’ve already decided you’re firing? You’ve already decided clearly if it’s true. And you know what? The pro proof’s going to be in the pudding, bro. I believe you. But if this man comes back for 2026, then I’ll probably sit back and say, “Yeah, was he really almost fired in Denver?” But if he loses his job, it Yeah, they delayed it. They didn’t want to do it in the middle of the season, it’s a bad look. The Giants have done it once before, the whole uh Ben Mcadoo situation. Um they don’t want to do it again. Yeah, but if you’ve already decided he’s not the guy, then just make him not the guy. Then make And here’s the other problem, and this is like the bigger issue, and I put this poll out a couple of days ago because I was genuinely curious how Giant fans feel about this, and that is who do you blame more for the current state of this team? Who’s done a worse job at their job? Brian Dable, who was almost fired two weeks ago, or Joe Shane? And when I put that poll out, it was like an even split. 51% said Brian Dable, 49% said Joe Shane. And you know what that tells me? You know what that tells me? What does it tell you? Scientifically and unscientifically, they have both failed. They have. They have both done a miserable job. And they have equal blame and equal sharing of blame for the state of the New York Football Giants. So, whoever decided Brian Debo needed to be fired two weeks ago, I would ask them very calmly and respectfully a follow-up question. What about Shane? I completely agree because he’s done a crappy job too. There it was absurd in the previous regime that Dave Gtlman got to hire a second head coach and it’ll be just as absurd that Joe Shane gets to and any good you want to point to with Joe Shane whether that is Malik Neighbors. Yes, he did trade up for Jackson Dart but as we’ve seen on camera that was Brian Dable loved Jackson Dart. We know that Joe Shane tried to trade for Matt Stafford. We know he tried to trade up for Cam Ward. How many victory laps can you really take about bringing the quarterback in here? Uh I I don’t know how you objectively look at the Giant problems. Here’s a better way to ask this. If I were to say to you, you got a clean slate three years from now. It’s Joe Shane with a different head coach or it’s another GM hired Brian Dable somewhere else to be a head coach. Who do you think is a better chance of success? Are you on my honest answer? Neither. Okay. I But I do think most people would tend to, if I had to pick one, there’s a better coach in Dable than there is a general manager in Shane. Well, I think both of them, if we’re being objectively fair about this, and I’m trying to as an IFO, there are things on their resume that are good. There are things on their resume that are impressive. Brian Dable was coach of the year and took that team to the postseason and showed a lot of guts and set the tone early in the season and in my opinion overachieved with what he had. Bravo. Yeah, that’s a check mark on his resume. Joe Shane has hit some home runs in the draft. He’s hit some home runs in trades. Obviously, acquiring Brian Burns looks pretty brilliant. Great trade. With that said, here’s what both of them are judged by, and this is something that no one can fight. Their record. Yeah. And it’s abysmal. And it’s abysmal. And it reminds me of Joe Douglas. I would sit here, even with you, Sean, and say, “Well, Joe Douglas, he drafted this guy, drafted that guy, he drafted this guy.” And the ultimate retort to any defense of Joe Douglas’s individual drafts would be his record. And right now, when I look at the record of Joe Shane and the record of Brian Dable, neither guy deserves to keep their job. So when I hear and I believe you, hey, they were about to fire Brian Dable two weeks ago, or I hear Paul Schwarz say, hey, could be a split ticket, right? My answer is, and I’m pretty confident I represent most Giant fans when I say this, is neither one of them deserves to remain here. Both of them share in responsibility for the state of the New York Giants, just like they share in responsibility for the good. We love Jackson Dart. Who do we give credit to? I’ll give credit to both guys. Right. You still have to execute the trade party job. I get that. And and so for that, good job, Joe Shane. For Brian Dable standing on the table saying, “Get me Jackson Dart.” I give him credit. But ultimately, their record is abysmal. So when I hear you say Brian Dable was almost fired two weeks ago before he got off the plane or before he got on the plane, my simple retort is what about Joe Shane? I’m with you because they’re both doing a terrible job. And I think that that poll I put out two days ago represents that it’s such a tough battle. It’s like a giant civil war. Who do you blame more? Who sucks more? Who’s worse at their job? It’s 50/50 because everybody wants an option C that says all of them. The there are not enough good football players on the New York Football Giants. There’s not enough good depth when you have injuries like we’ve seen at the quarterback position where the whole team becomes a house of cards. It’s Joe Shane’s job to put those players on the roster. Brian Dable can coach them and he hasn’t done a good enough job of doing that. I don’t know what anybody thinks is going to change by Joe Shane remaining here and Brian Dable being fired, which is absolutely inevitable since he was nearly fired after Denver. So, Giant fans, do you want the New York Giants to do what they almost did two weeks ago according to Shawn Morash, which is pull the trigger and fire Brian Dable? And who do you blame more for this current mess? We’ll get to your calls coming up. 88881019. And a part of the Giants mess involves the kicker because guess what, ladies and gentlemen, Graham Gun knows on the injury report again. More on that coming up. Plus, plenty of baseball later today with free agency beginning at 5:00.

With Tiki out, Evan Roberts and Shaun Morash drop a bombshell — Brian Daboll was reportedly minutes away from being fired after the Giants’ collapse in Denver. Cooler heads prevailed, but what does this mean for his future… and Joe Schoen’s? Are both on the hot seat? The guys debate whether the Giants should pull the trigger now or ride out the chaos.

⏱️ Time Codes:
00:00 – Show open: Tiki out, Yankees and A-Rod news teased
00:30 – Shaun Morash hints at a huge Giants scoop
01:15 – Report: Giants ownership wanted to fire Brian Daboll after the Denver collapse
03:00 – Why ownership backed off the firing
04:00 – Evan reacts: “If that’s true, he’s a dead man walking”
06:00 – Could firing Daboll midseason help the team?
08:00 – Would Mike Kafka get a fair shot as interim head coach?
10:00 – Should the Giants move on from both Daboll and Schoen?
12:00 – Who’s more to blame: Daboll or Schoen?
14:00 – Fans react: “All of them are the problem!”
14:45 – Giants kicker injury adds to the misery

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