The Giants have always preferred tough-guy coaches in the mold of Bill Parcells and Tom Coughlin, leaders who could impose their will on a dire situation and inspire men to do things their minds were telling them they could not do.
The franchise won all four of its Super Bowl titles with Parcells and Coughlin, former Giants assistants, and they could have won more championships — a lot more — if they didn’t miss what they had on their own staffs in resident hard-asses Vince Lombardi and Bill Belichick.
But as much as interim coach Mike Kafka deserves a fair-and-square shot after replacing the fired Brian Daboll on Monday, the Giants will almost certainly find their next full-time head coach, as they say, outside the building.
And since co-owner and team president John Mara summoned Daboll into his office to deliver the bad news face-to-face, giving himself, partner Steve Tisch and general manager Joe Schoen (the luckiest 20-40-1 GM in the history of sports) a two-month head start on the search, it’s a good time to play fantasy football.
In that game, the best available result would be the Giants naming Mike Tomlin as their next head coach in January.