{"id":664510,"date":"2026-01-08T19:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T19:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/664510\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T19:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T19:22:12","slug":"exclusive-kevin-stefanskis-first-giants-sit-down-went-very-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/664510\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive | Kevin Stefanski&#8217;s first Giants sit-down &#8216;went very well&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not all interviews go according to plan.<\/p>\n<p>It sounds as if <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/07\/sports\/the-kevin-stefanski-success-story-that-could-make-him-a-giants-match\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wednesday\u2019s sit-down between the Giants and Kevin Stefanski<\/a> resulted in the Giants making a positive impression on one of the top head coach candidates on the market.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt went very well,\u2019\u2019 a source outside the Giants\u2019 building told The Post. \u201cMeeting everybody and talking it through. I think it\u2019s going to be a long process, I really do.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>The Giants made an impression on Stefanski, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/05\/sports\/browns-fire-kevin-stefanski-after-second-straight-horrendous-season\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fired Monday<\/a> after the Browns went 5-12 this past season. The two-time (2020 and 2023) NFL Coach of the Year led off <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/01\/05\/sports\/nine-giants-coaching-candidates-as-new-options-emerge-on-black-monday\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">what will be an extended lineup of hopefuls<\/a> to meet with general manager Joe Schoen and Giants ownership over the next few days and, most likely, weeks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not all interviews go according to plan. It sounds as if Wednesday\u2019s sit-down between the Giants and Kevin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":664511,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[4413,7,519,8591,1917,56,2321,2469,6,9,3248],"class_list":{"0":"post-664510","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-giants","8":"tag-exclusive","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-giants","11":"tag-kevin-stefanski","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-giants","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkgiants","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115861110804890180","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664510","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=664510"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664510\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/664511"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}