{"id":342693,"date":"2025-12-11T08:33:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T08:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/342693\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T08:33:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T08:33:11","slug":"bryan-cox-was-checked-out-before-giants-firing-this-was-the-final-straw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/342693\/","title":{"rendered":"Bryan Cox was &#8216;checked out&#8217; before Giants firing \u2014 this was the final straw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interim head coach Mike Kafka <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/09\/sports\/giants-mike-kafka-cryptic-on-bye-week-firing-of-bryan-cox\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">opted not to shed any light Wednesday<\/a> on the firing of assistant defensive line coach Bryan Cox, a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/05\/sports\/giants-fire-assistant-defensive-line-coach-bryan-cox-in-latest-shakeup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">dismissal that came about last Thursday<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A source told The Post that Cox had \u201cchecked out\u2019\u2019 after Brian Daboll was fired 10 games into the season. It was Daboll in 2022 who brought Cox to the Giants \u2014 the two have a long-standing relationship, starting when Daboll was a young assistant with the Patriots and Cox was a linebacker with the team. They also were together with several other teams, including the Jets.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Cox expressed disgruntlement about the seating assignments for the assistant coaches for the flight home from New England, a source confirmed. That apparently played a part in Kafka deciding to dismiss Cox, perhaps a \u201clast straw\u201d sort of deal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, you\u2019d have to ask him,\u2019\u2019 Kafka said, \u201cAgain, I\u2019m not going to get into the weeds and the details of everything there. Those are tough decisions. So that\u2019s really all I have got to say on that.\u2019\u2019\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Interim head coach Mike Kafka opted not to shed any light Wednesday on the firing of assistant defensive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342694,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[20000,26704,977,349,99,358],"class_list":{"0":"post-342693","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-brian-daboll","9":"tag-mike-kafka","10":"tag-new-york-giants","11":"tag-nfl","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-sports-plus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}