The Giants have fired assistant defensive line coach Bryan Cox, a source told The Post.
What prompted the firing and why it happened at the end of the bye week was not immediately known Friday night.
His name was removed from the team website.
Cox is the third coach fired by the Giants this season and the second since Mike Kafka replaced Brian Daboll as head coach.
Defensive coordinator Shane Bowen was fired last week.
There have been mixed reactions inside the building to the decision to replace Bowen with outside linebackers coach Charlie Bullen over more experienced assistant coaches, and questions raised internally about if his past ties to general manager Joe Schoen led Kafka to that decision, league sources told The Post.
The Giants’ rushing defense ranks last in the NFL.
Bullen brought back a tackling circuit drill last week.
New York Giants assistant defensive line coach Bryan Cox during an NFL preseason game between the New England Patriots and the New York Giants on August 11, 2022, at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts. Icon Sportswire via Getty Images
Cox and defensive line coach Andre Patterson worked with all position groups on tackling fundamentals.
The circuit wasn’t new, but the accountability for redoing a rep after a mistake was.
Cox was an original member of Daboll’s staff in 2022.
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He is a former Pro Bowl linebacker who retired in 2002.
Cox was fired by the Falcons in 2017, allegedly for shoving a Cardinals scout at the NFL combine.