Brian Daboll better have Giants answers even if he isnt willing to share them

The Giants had gotten stomped but good in Week 1, and the people demanded answers from the coach.They wanted insight into why things had gotten off so poorly, so completely, so depressingly.

They wanted him to explain.“We have to play better, all phases,” the coach said.“We have to coach better, all phases.”A day later, given 24 hours to absorb the evidence again and again on video, the people again returned to the coach seeking wisdom, seeking acumen, seeking explanation for such a resounding thud.

And this time the coach opened up and let it all pour out.“We just have to play better,” he said.“We have to coach better.”That was Tom Coughlin.

That was Sept.9 and 10, 2007.

If it sounds an awful lot like the non-answers, non-sequiturs and non-denial denials that Brian Daboll would offer up on Sept.8 and 9, 2024 … well, they’re almost exactly the same.Coughlin, you may recall, was never exactly John Madden, unfiltered opinions ready to burst from his tongue at any moment.

He was, well, almost exactly like Daboll, a little impatient, even if he always looked like he was a few seconds away from fully morphing into Michael Douglas as William “D-Fens” Foster in “Falling Down.”Now, full stop: We are by no means comparing the 2007 Giants — who not only lost Week 1 but Week 2, too, and were trailing 14-0 in Week 3 before sort of rallying on their way to winning the Super Bowl — to the 60 minutes we’ve seen of the 2024 Giants so far.We will not even insult the sacred memory of Eli Manning by reminding you that as late as Week 12 that year he had the worst game of his life, a four-interception, three-pick-six disaster at home against — coincidence of coincidences — the Minnesota Vikings.Or hint that if the Giants somehow allowed in those days for Eli to take the postgame walk of shame Daniel Jones took Sunday night, strolling from locker room to automobile absorbing all manner of invective from incensed fans, that Eli would’ve looked...