The New York Giants are retaining general manager Joe Schoen and coach Brian Daboll off a 3-14 season, team president John Mara announced in a statement.
The quick decision comes on the heels of a 20-13 loss to the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday.
The statement read, in part:
“Joe Schoen and Brian Daboll will continue in their respective roles with the organization. As disappointing as the results of the season have been, [Steve] Tisch and I remain confident in the process that Joe and Brian have implemented and their vision for our team.
We look forward to the future and the result we all desire.”
There were questions about Schoen and Daboll’s futures with the Giants coming off one of the worst seasons in franchise history with a .176 win percentage. They went 6-11 the previous year and Daboll had to overhaul his staff after butting heads with defensive coordinator Wink Martindale and several other assistants.
The regime’s lone success was their first season, when the Giants reached the playoffs and won a postseason game. Daboll earned Coach of the Year honors for that season.
Mara said during this past season that Schoen and Daboll weren’t going anywhere. He added he didn’t “anticipate” making any changes afterwards. But that was before they went more than two months without winning another game. When the Giants finally beat the Colts in Week 17, they snapped a franchise-record 10-game skid.
Still, they decided to roll it back. The stability is appreciated.
“Do I want it? Not really,” outside linebacker Brian Burns said after the game on Sunday. “I would like some stability. I would like [Daboll] and Joe and everybody to stay so we can get rolling next year without having to start a whole new regime and a whole new everything.”
