Exclusive | Giants receivers stand up for Brian Daboll, believe coach getting another chance would be warranted
The longest-tenured Giants player still standing and playing says this about Brian Daboll: Give him another shot.“I think so,” wide receiver Darius Slayton told The Post on Wednesday after practice.“It’s been three years, I think another year to try to give him a chance to really get things rolling would be warranted.”Slayton does not have a contract for 2025, so this is not simply a case of a player making nice with the boss.
Daboll could be working through his final few days with the Giants, which is a stunning reversal of fortune, considering he was named the NFL’s Coach of the Year in 2022.The Giants are 3-13 heading into Sunday’s season finale against the Eagles — who will not be using their starters, including Saquon Barkley — and not long after that trip to Philly, the decision will come down from ownership whether Daboll stays as the head coach and Joe Schoen remains as the general manager.“If Joe and Dabes are gone, those are the guys that drafted me, so yeah, it definitely would affect me,” third-year receiver Wan’Dale Robinson told The Post, “but at the end of the day, still got to make this thing work.”Making things work this season has been exceedingly difficult and darn near impossible for Daboll.
He has kept the locker room together, which is a plus, but there also has been a franchise record 10-game losing streak, which is quite a minus.Outside linebacker Brian Burns is finishing up his first season with the team and thus his reference point with Daboll does not go back to 2022, when Daboll arrived to take his first-ever head coaching assignment at any level of football.The Giants last week accomplished something rare and unexpected — actually winning a game, beating the Colts 45-33 — and Burns was asked if the players had rallied around Daboll to claim this victory.“We’ve been around him all year,” Burns said.That was that.
A simple declarative statement devoid of much emotion.That seems to sum up the feelin...