fractured his relationship with Miami quarterback Tua Tagovailoa<\/a> and perhaps alienated other players when Flores was Dolphins head coach has softened.<\/p>\nNo one, though, doubts Flores\u2019 ability to coach football. The creative, aggressive style of defense Flores has installed as defensive coordinator of the Minnesota Vikings would certainly be appreciated in New York.<\/p>\n
Steve Spagnuolo \u2014 The former popular and outstanding two-time defensive coordinator of the Giants might have earned himself a place in the Pro Football Hall of Fame with the work he has done running the Kansas City Chiefs defense.<\/p>\n
Spagnuolo was interim head coach of the Giants at the end of the disastrous 2017 season. Personally, I have often wondered if the Giants should have given him the head-coaching job outright for the 2018 season. Instead, they have had Pat Shurmur, Joe Judge and now Brian Daboll in that chair over the last eight seasons.<\/p>\n
Spagnuolo, of course, flopped as head coach of the St. Louis Rams, going 10-38 over three seasons before being fired. He will be 66 next season. Does he still burn to get another head-coaching opportunity? If so, he loves the Giants, the organization loves him, he would bring credibility despite his stint with the Rams, and is a coach Giants\u2019 ownership needs to consider.<\/p>\n
Kliff Kingsbury \u2014 Yes, Kingsbury would be considered a retread after going 28-37-1 as Arizona Cardinals head coach from 2019-2022. He has been praised for his handling of Jayden Daniels as offensive coordinator of the Washington Commanders, though, and could be worthy of a second head-coaching opportunity.<\/p>\n
Jesse Minter \u2014 A highly-successful defensive coordinator for Jim Harbaugh at Michigan and with the Los Angeles Chargers, Minter is on the short list of hot coordinator candidates looking for a first-time head-coaching opportunity. Harbaugh is certainly an outstanding mentor. Minter also coached for John Harbaugh from 2017-2020 with the Baltimore Ravens.<\/p>\n
The 42-year-old has the pedigree. He would, of course, come with the \u201ccan he make the jump to head coach?\u201d question. With Dart as the centerpiece of the Giants\u2019 universe now, Minter would also need to show he could bring in a quality offensive coordinator and offensive coaching staff.<\/p>\n
Jeff Hafley \u2014 Another rising defensive coordinator, Hafley has been defensive coordinator of the Green Bay Packers the past two seasons. The 46-year-old is a Montvale, N.J., native and UAlbany grad who has coached at Rutgers, been head coach at Boston College, been co-defensive coordinator at Ohio Sate and had several NFL assistant coaching stops.<\/p>\n
Hafley\u2019s resume is impressive, but he would come with all of the same questions that apply to Minter.<\/p>\n
Nick Saban \u2014 If you\u2019re Giants ownership, after all of the failures of recent years, don\u2019t you have to pick up the phone and see if Saban has any interest in resuming his coaching career? And, with seven collegiate national titles on his resume, taking one more shot at finding the NFL success he could not find 20 years ago with the Miami Dolphins?<\/p>\n
He\u2019s 74. Big deal. Pete Carroll is doing the job at 74 for the Las Vegas Raiders. You\u2019re kidding yourself if you don\u2019t think Saban has the energy to do the job.<\/p>\n
In my view, you have to at least ask.<\/p>\n
John Harbaugh \u2014 Except for marriages that last a lifetime, most relationships run their course at some point. In his 18th season as head coach of the Baltimore Ravens, with a Super Bowl championship and 12 playoff appearances in his first 17 years, there are whispers that the Harbaugh-Ravens relationship might be about to run its course.<\/p>\n
If Harbaugh becomes available, the Giants should immediately find out if he has interest in shepherding Jaxson Dart\u2019s development and what it might cost.<\/p>\n
Mike McCarthy \u2014 Many of you will turn your nose up at this one, but check the resume. Like Harbaugh, a Super Bowl title and 12 playoff appearances in 18 seasons. In five seasons with the Dallas Cowboys, his teams won 12 times despite dealing with Jerry Jones. McCarthy has a 174-112-2 regular-season record, a .608 winning percentage.<\/p>\n
If you are looking for an experienced coach with a successful pedigree, McCarthy has to be on the list.<\/p>\n
In my view, the Giants need an experienced coach with a winning background who will command respect from the second he is hired.<\/p>\n
Right now, there are justifiable questions about the effort being given by players \u2014 specifically defensive players. They need a head coach who is not going to tolerate that. Right now, I think one of the issues the Giants have is that Brian Daboll is not that guy. The Giants, in my view, have an accountability problem.<\/p>\n
The next coach has to walk in the door with the credibility, and the willingness, to fix it.<\/p>\n
To me, that means I would lean toward guys who have done a significant amount of winning as a head coach, or have been around and been a big part of a significant amount of winning.<\/p>\n
To me, the whole \u201coffensive coach\u201d or \u201cdefensive coach\u201d thing is overrated. Tom Coughin was an offensive assistant and Bill Parcells a defensive one before becoming head coaches. With the Giants, though, they were both COACHES.<\/p>\n
They ran the entire show. Everyone answered to them. Everyone knew the expectations, the standard. They knew what would not be tolerated. It\u2019s about leadership, respect and whether a room filled with highly-paid, alpha males with immense egos who have spent most of their lives being catered to because of their athletic ability will will listen to and follow you.<\/p>\n
If the Giants move on from Daboll, that\u2019s the type of coach they should be looking for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With each ugly loss, it seems less and less likely that Brian Daboll can engineer a late-season turnaround…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,7692,1425,11,10],"class_list":["post-28262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-giants-analysis","tag-new-york-giants-rumors","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}