Bills offensive coordinator Brian Daboll attends warmups before an NFL divisional playoff game against Kansas City on Jan. 23, 2022, in Kansas City, Mo. Credit: AP/Reed Hoffmann
He built an impressive resume as an NFL assistant coach, working for the greatest NFL coach and best college coach of all time. He has been part of Super Bowl winning teams and national championship teams, a man whose apprenticeships with Bill Belichick and Nick Saban have prepared him for this uniquely challenging moment.
Joe Judge?
Well, not this time.
This time, the Giants hired a head coach whose background is far more likely to result in a long-awaited turnaround than Judge, whose work under Belichick and Saban was a huge draw for Giants co-owner John Mara and Steve Tisch in 2020, but whose job performance fell far short of expectations in a failed two-year run.