When Daboll repeatedly said, “Every year is a new year,’’ the idea was not merely foisted from the Coaching Cliche handbook. You could sense, though, that Daboll realized the 2022 Giants came together nicely and perhaps prematurely, won a bunch of close games and thrived amid all the newness. These are the same fingerprints used as evidence in 2022 to anoint Daboll, rightfully, as the NFL Coach of the Year after guiding the Giants to a record of 9-7-1 and winning the first playoff game for the franchise since the 2011 season, all accomplished in his first year as a head coach at any level. The stark and stunning downslide is the handiwork of so many but the master sculptor is always the head coach and so a dusting reveals Daboll’s fingerprints at the crime scenes the Giants left behind in East Rutherford, Glendale, Ariz., and Santa Clara, Calif. “As a playmaker I can’t just go home and go to sleep,’’ Waller said after another impact-less game, “knowing what I’ve done in this league and what I’m capable of.’’Ī year ago, it was “Don’t sleep on the Giants.’’ Four games into this season, it is “I’m going to sleep, the heck with the Giants.’’ 'Writing on the wall' for Sterling Shepard with curious Giants decisionīrian Daboll did not get much rest. Giants must do everything they can to rediscover the end zoneīroken Giants have sucked the life out of their lofty expectations Giants shouldn't have a Daniel Jones-Tyrod Taylor quarterback controversy
