There has been a lot of fallout with the New York Giants after firing head coach Brian Daboll. They have been one of the most dysfunctional organizations over the last decade.
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Jul 23, 2025; East Rutherford, NJ, USA; New York Giants general manager Joe Schoen on the field during training camp at Quest Diagnostics Training Center. Mandatory Credit: Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Images
With Daboll being fired mid-season, there are many other questions that New York is going to have to answer in the long run. For now, owner John Mara is committed to general manager Joe Schoen being here. There are Giants fans and others who still don’t understand why he is still the general manager. A lot of other people believe that Schoen deserves a lot of fall out for another 2-8 start for the Giants as well.
New York Giants Insider Questions Why Joe Schoen Is Still the General Manager Of this Football Team
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Apr 25, 2025; East Rutherford, NJ, US; New York Giants president John Mara (far left), general manager Joe Schoen (left), Jaxson Dart, and head coach Brian Daboll (right) pose for photos prior to the start of the press conference to introduce the Giants first round draft picks. Mandatory Credit: Thomas Salus-Imagn Images
Dan Duggan, a beat writer for the Athletic that covers the Giants has been writing a lot of coverage about the fall out of Daboll being fired. One of the columns he wrote about on Tuesday was why is Schoen still here as the Giants general manager? In the long column that Duggan wrote, he gives an interesting answer that should be very alarming.
He said,
“There are more roster holes than meet the eye. Wan’Dale Robinson, who has stepped up as the leading receiver in Nabers’ absence, will be a free agent. Same goes for Cor’Dale Flott, the team’s most consistent cornerback this season. Both starters on the right side of the offensive line — guard Greg Van Roten and tackle Jermaine Eluemunor — are in the final year of their contracts.
The impending free agents don’t account for the need to make upgrades at positions like defensive tackle, linebacker and safety. The Giants are in a healthy cap position, but they’ll need to spend to cover for past mistakes, just as they paid Adebo after missing on 2023 first-round pick Deonte Banks and Holland after letting McKinney walk in free agency a year earlier.
For all of the draft whiffs and bad free agent signings, no misevaluation was more costly than Schoen believing the surprising success in 2022 was sustainable. Schoen tried to “expedite” his planned rebuild in the 2023 offseason. The Giants have gone 11-33 since that point.
With the on-field product indefensible, prepare to hear leaks referencing all of the enhancements Schoen has made behind the scenes. It’s great that he led the scouting department out of the stone age, but there are plenty of qualified candidates who would be capable of operating the touchscreens he had installed in the draft war room.”
In other words, Schoen still has not done a great job with roster construction despite drafting more talent onto the roster. With having a new draft room in place, maybe a new general manager can be even better. The Schoen/Daboll regime has no doubt been a failure.
For now, it certainly seems like a choice that owner John Mara is going to commit to him for now to lead the new head coaching search. However, there is still a chance that Schoen could be fired at the end of the 2025 NFL season here also.
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