{"id":656868,"date":"2026-01-05T21:31:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T21:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/656868\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T21:31:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T21:31:11","slug":"why-the-new-york-giants-should-avoid-hiring-kevin-stefanski","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/656868\/","title":{"rendered":"Why the New York Giants should avoid hiring Kevin Stefanski"},"content":{"rendered":"

Why the New York Giants should avoid hiring Kevin Stefanski<\/a> originally appeared on The Sporting News<\/a>. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After posting a 45-56 record in six years with the Cleveland Browns,<\/a> they\u2019ve finally decided to part ways with head coach Kevin Stefanski.<\/a><\/p>\n

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For years, the media portrayed him as an offensive guru who would probably land another head coaching position right away if the Browns<\/a> were to let him go. And now that he\u2019s up for grabs, some believe the New York Giants<\/a>should make him their primary target.<\/a><\/p>\n

Stefanski might have earned his stripes as an offensive coordinator, and blaming him for everything that went wrong in Cleveland during his time there would be unfair and inaccurate.<\/p>\n

That being said, there\u2019s no actual reason the Giants should even consider hiring him as their next head coach. He should be their primary target as an offensive coordinator, but he cannot be trusted to run his own team again just yet, much less in the Big Apple.<\/p>\n

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The New York Giants need to steer clear of Kevin Stefanski<\/p>\n

Despite his so-called offensive expertise, the Browns only had a top-ten offense once in six years of the Stefanski era. Of course, one might argue that he wasn\u2019t given a fair shot with the carousel of mediocre quarterback play he had to deal with.<\/p>\n

Still, he ran an uber-conservative offense, didn\u2019t develop any of the young quarterbacks he played, and failed to scheme his players open. The Giants can\u2019t afford to mess things up with Jaxson Dart, and Stefanski\u2019s recent track record is far from encouraging.<\/p>\n

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Even if none of that was on him and even though he might be just another victim of the Browns\u2019 never-ending organizational malpractice, Stefanski might not be cut out for all the things that come with being a head coach.<\/p>\n

New York media is ruthless. He wasn\u2019t great with the politics side of the job in a much smaller and more forgiving market, but his generic answers after every loss aren\u2019t going to cut it in the Big Apple.<\/p>\n

Stefanski\u2019s reluctance to give up play-calling duties until the season was already out of reach came back to haunt him in consecutive seasons. He puts too much on his plate, and that often leaves him unprepared in big moments.<\/p>\n

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Some coaches are better suited to be top assistants and not the main people in charge of the team, and there\u2019s nothing wrong with that. That might as well be the case with Stefanski. He should get another job, but not as a head coach, or at least not now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Why the New York Giants should avoid hiring Kevin Stefanski originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[54,7,519,6496,13,8591,1917,56,2321,2469,6,12611,76195,13257],"class_list":["post-656868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-new-york-giants","tag-cleveland-browns","tag-football","tag-giants","tag-head-coach","tag-jaxson-dart","tag-kevin-stefanski","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-giants","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkgiants","tag-nfl","tag-offensive-coordinator","tag-primary-target","tag-stefanski"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115844630949233784","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656868","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=656868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}