{"id":35945,"date":"2025-11-11T12:53:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T12:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/35945\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T12:53:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T12:53:06","slug":"ex-giant-responds-to-mike-kafka-being-named-interim-coach-ew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/35945\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Giant responds to Mike Kafka being named interim coach: &#8216;Ew&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">In an anticipated midseason shakeup, the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/new-york-giants\/351\" data-autotag=\"9402befb-12da-4b26-905a-81ab1fea0850\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">New York Giants<\/a> fired head coach Brian Daboll on Monday, capping a dismal 2-8 start and an NFL-record 11 straight road losses. Daboll&#8217;s tenure, once buoyed by a 2022 playoff run, ended with a 20-40-1 record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Offensive coordinator Mike Kafka was promptly named interim head coach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The news drew a visceral reaction from former Giants center Jon Feliciano, who played under Daboll in 2022 after overlapping with him and general manager Joe Schoen in Buffalo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">On the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nof_pod\/status\/1988016450322207200\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Not Our Fault<\/a>&#8221; podcast, the now-retired lineman unloaded, calling the firing &#8220;(expletive) up&#8221; and insisting Daboll was &#8220;the right guy for the job.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Feliciano lambasted Schoen for hemorrhaging talent, listing himself, Julian Love, Xavier McKinney, Leonard Williams, and Saquon Barkley as key departures for little return.<\/p>\n<p>Need a news break? <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (play)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/play.usatoday.com\/?itm_source=SPIKE&amp;itm_campaign=PLAYSPIKE&amp;itm_medium=ONSITE\">Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">&#8220;It&#8217;s kind of hard to win games when your best players get traded or just walk away for nothing,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Despite his loyalty &#8212; claiming Schoen is &#8220;my friend&#8221; &#8212; Feliciano predicted the GM&#8217;s ouster by season&#8217;s end, citing &#8220;rough patches&#8221; like lowball contract offers that drove him to a lucrative 49ers deal. Yet Schoen remains secure, tasked by owners John Mara and Steve Tisch with leading the coaching search and nurturing the young core.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">As the Giants limp on at 2-8, Feliciano&#8217;s raw take underscores the front-office fractures fueling Big Blue&#8217;s woes.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"gnt_em_cp_cw_i\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762865586_159_86373428007-square-1.jpg\" data-gl- decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In an anticipated midseason shakeup, the New York Giants fired head coach Brian Daboll on Monday, capping a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35946,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[679,9,24,55,54,56,1941,1942,948,21153,21154,21155,7944,950,930,932,947,1047,9723,949,21156,682],"class_list":["post-35945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-accessfree","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-sstssportsnflgiants","tag-sstsngiants","tag-tagamerican-football","tag-tagjon-feliciano","tag-tagjulian-love","tag-tagleonard-williams","tag-tagmike-kafka","tag-tagnational-sports","tag-tagnew-york-giants","tag-tagnfl","tag-tagnfl-hub","tag-tagoverall-negative","tag-tagsaquon-barkley","tag-tagsports-news","tag-tagxavier-mckinney","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35945","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=35945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}