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The New York Giants are reportedly parting ways with head coach Brian Daboll following a miserable 2-8 NFL season.
Despite adding star rookie power in quarterback Jaxson Dart this season, the Giants have once again slumped to a nightmare record, including Sunday's 24-20 defeat to the Chicago Bears.
And New York's woes have now cost Daboll his job in the Big Apple with this weekend's most recent loss proving to be the final nail in the coffin, according to multiple reports.
The Giants' offensive coordinator Mike Kafka will step in as interim head coach, according to Adam Schefter.
Kafka will mark New York's sixth coach since 2016 after Ben McAdoo, Steve Spagnuolo, Pat Shurmur, Joe Judge and Daboll.
The decision from the Giants' ownership comes after the team has blown four double-digit leads in road defeats this season.
The New York Giants have fired head coach Brian Daboll amid a miserable season
The Giants has slumped to 2-8 after Sunday's 24-20 defeat to the Chicago Bears
Daboll enjoyed a successful start to life in New York, reaching the playoffs in his first season in charge in 2022.
The season, which saw the Giants go 1-1 in the postseason, earned Daboll a lot of credit, winning him NFL Coach of the Year.
However, in the years since, Daboll hasn't been able to even come close to replicating the results of his debut and the Giants have not been playoff contenders since.
Through three and a half years at the helm in New York, Daboll has guided his team to a 20-40-1 regular-season record.
Owner John Mara had stressed at the end of last season that, while Daboll and general manager Joe Schoen were being handed a lifeline, he needed to see results improve.
'It better not take too long because I've just about run out of patience,' Mara said after the 2024 season. 'That'll be a good sound bite for you tonight, huh?'
Mara's patience with Daboll appears to have finally worn out. Schoen, however, is seemingly safe for the time being.
The season started somewhat optimistic with Dart and fellow rookie Cam Skattebo injecting a boost of youth and energy into the side. The Giants even managed to pull off a major upset against Super Bowl champions, the Philadelphia Eagles, at home in Week 6.
Jaxson Dart was ruled out of the Giants' game against the Bears on Sunday due to concussion
However, marred by injuries, the Giants' season has slumped to miserable lows in recent weeks.
The Giants have been without star receiver Malik Nabers, who tore his ACL earlier in the season, and rookie running back Skattebo after he dislocated his knee against the Philadelphia Eagles in Week 8.
The injury woes were compounded on Sunday when Dart was ruled out of the loss to the Bears with a concussion.
Dart, who scored two rushing touchdowns earlier in the game, took a heavy blow to the head as he fell to the turf late in the third quarter.
He was immediately replaced by Russell Wilson and evaluated in the blue tent before then going back to the locker room. He was quickly ruled out for the rest of the game.
Wilson could not conjure anything up for the Giants, who let another lead slip and fell to 2-8 for the season.
This is just the Giants’ third midseason coaching change in since the 1970 AFL-NFL merger and first since 2017, when Ben McAdoo and general manager Jerry Reese were fired following a 2-10 start.
