{"id":342652,"date":"2025-09-05T03:39:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T03:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/342652\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T03:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T03:39:11","slug":"giants-brian-daboll-hands-play-calling-duties-back-to-oc-mike-kafka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/342652\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants\u2019 Brian Daboll hands play-calling duties back to OC Mike Kafka"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Published on: Sept 05, 2025 05:32 am IST <\/p>\n<p>    FOOTBALL-NFL-NYG-KAFKA-DABOLL\/     <\/p>\n<p> New York Giants head coach Brian Daboll revealed Thursday that offensive coordinator Mike Kafka will take play-calling duties off his hands this season. <\/p>\n<p>     <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/nbanfl1_1747757642305_1747757642779.jpg\" alt=\"Giants\u2019 Brian Daboll hands play-calling duties back to OC Mike Kafka\" title=\"Giants\u2019 Brian Daboll hands play-calling duties back to OC Mike Kafka\"\/>   Giants\u2019 Brian Daboll hands play-calling duties back to OC Mike Kafka    <\/p>\n<p> Kafka called plays during the preseason and Daboll confirmed that that will be the setup going forward. Kafka previously handled play-calling for the Giants&#8217; offense in 2022 and part of 2023. <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;It&#8217;s just about getting with the players, giving them the stuff that they like and then just going through evaluation,&#8221; said Kafka, 38. &#8220;The preseason is obviously a bigger evaluation tool, but just getting back into the flow of it. We&#8217;ve been doing it throughout training camp and throughout the spring. Just making those reps has been good.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p> ESPN reported that Kafka had play-calling duties revoked due to &#8220;noticeable discontent&#8221; during the 2023 season, the Giants&#8217; second year with Daboll in charge. Daboll was in charge of calling plays in 2021, and New York sank to 3-14 with the second-worst scoring offense in the NFL . <\/p>\n<p> Kafka takes over a unit with a new look and the potential to be much improved. Daniel Jones was the Giants&#8217; quarterback for Daboll&#8217;s and Kafka&#8217;s first three seasons, but Russell Wilson will start this season as QB1. Wide receiver Malik Nabers will try to build off a stellar rookie season, and Tyrone Tracy Jr. starts at running back after showing flashes as a rookie. <\/p>\n<p> &#8220;Mike&#8217;s done a great job this preseason. He&#8217;s done a good job with the staff,&#8221; Daboll said. &#8220;Got a lot of confidence in Mike and the offensive staff. Up to this point, relative to all the preseason games and the meetings we&#8217;ve had, I&#8217;ve been very pleased with the offensive staff.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p> The Giants open the season Sunday at the Washington Commanders. <\/p>\n<p> Field Level Media <\/p>\n<p>This article was generated from an automated news agency feed without modifications to text.<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/story_trending@2x.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"\/>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\" class=\"breadcrumbclick\" data-vars-event-label=\"Home_clicked\" data-vars-event-action=\"\/\" data-vars-event-cta=\"News\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/sports\" class=\"breadcrumbclick\" data-vars-event-label=\"Sports_clicked\" data-vars-event-action=\"\/sports\" data-vars-event-cta=\"Sports\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sports<\/a> \/ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/sports\/us-sports\" class=\"breadcrumbclick\" data-vars-event-label=\"US Sports_clicked\" data-vars-event-action=\"\/sports\/us-sports\" data-vars-event-cta=\"US Sports\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">US Sports<\/a> \/ Giants\u2019 Brian Daboll hands play-calling duties back to OC Mike Kafka   <\/p>\n<p> See Less <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published on: Sept 05, 2025 05:32 am IST FOOTBALL-NFL-NYG-KAFKA-DABOLL\/ New York Giants head coach Brian Daboll revealed Thursday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[200,7,519,11946,1917,56,2321,2469,6,61986],"class_list":{"0":"post-342652","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-giants","8":"tag-brian-daboll","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-giants","11":"tag-mike-kafka","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-giants","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkgiants","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-play-calling-duties"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115149614052801690","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}