{"id":18659,"date":"2024-11-24T16:30:23","date_gmt":"2024-11-24T16:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=18659"},"modified":"2024-11-24T16:30:23","modified_gmt":"2024-11-24T16:30:23","slug":"giants-expected-to-retain-gm-joe-schoen-brian-daboll-on-steady-ground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=18659","title":{"rendered":"Giants Expected To Retain GM Joe Schoen; Brian Daboll On Steady Ground?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The past few offseasons have featured momentous swing-and-miss transactions on quarterbacks. The Deshaun Watson<\/a><\/strong> and Russell Wilson<\/a><\/strong> moves proved the most costly, but they did not (as of yet, at least) lead to GM firings. A spotlight on how the Giants\u2019 ill-fated Daniel Jones<\/a><\/strong> contract will impact their current regime is shining, but New York is still only expected to feature one GM vacancy this offseason.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>With a third of the season to go, the Giants are still looking to stand pat with Joe Schoen<\/strong>. The third-year GM is not on track to follow Joe Douglas<\/strong> to the chopping block, according to CBS Sports\u2019 Jonathan Jones<\/a>. Although a recent report pegged Brian Daboll<\/strong> as coaching for his job over the homestretch<\/a>, Schoen may be on steadier ground.<\/p>\n

Mara said in October he did not envision Schoen or Daboll being booted before season\u2019s end or in 2025<\/a>, but the Giants have not won a game since those comments. While momentum for a third Joe Judge<\/strong> year surfaced before his eventual firing, Jones adds Daboll is also still presumed safe due to the owner wanting more stability.<\/p>\n

The quick hooks given to Ben McAdoo<\/strong>, Pat Shurmur<\/strong> and Judge are benefiting Daboll, who has gone 8-19 since his 2022 Coach of the Year season. That 2022 showing led the Giants to pay Jones (four years, $160MM), and the team is set to eat the remainder of the QB\u2019s guarantees at signing<\/a> this year and then $22.2MM in prorated bonus money come 2025. Tommy DeVito<\/a><\/strong> will have a significant say in<\/a> whether Daboll is brought back, and Mara\u2019s past at GM would suggest Schoen is safer than Daboll.<\/p>\n

Jerry Reese<\/strong> received an extended chance to return the Giants to contender status, as the two-time Super Bowl-winning GM oversaw four seasons without a playoff berth before the 2016 slate \u2014 one coming after a free agency splurge for defensive help \u2014 led to a return. Mara canned Reese and McAdoo after an Eli Manning<\/a><\/strong> benching late in the 2017 season, but Reese\u2019s extended run preceded Dave Gettleman<\/strong> being given four full seasons; none of those brought a postseason berth. Schoen being dropped after three years, the first of which being viewed as a rebuild, would seem hasty by comparison.<\/p>\n

Additionally, Jonathan Jones notes Mara\u2019s involvement in Giants day-to-day operations made the owner well aware why the Giants paid Jones in 2023. This well-chronicled sequence eventually led Saquon Barkley<\/a><\/strong> to Philadelphia, and while Hard Knocks<\/em> portrayed Mara as somber once<\/a> the running back bolted this offseason, the Giants had long held a Jones-over-Barkley stance in 2023<\/a>. Mara also stumped for Jones in 2022, proclaiming he would remain the starter despite struggles in prior years. The owner cited an inability to build a team around Jones back then, and although Schoen authorized the QB\u2019s second contract, the owner being onboard with that move points to Schoen having a chance to acquire his own quarterback.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Schoen passed on the Michael Penix Jr.<\/a><\/strong>\u2013J.J. McCarthy<\/a><\/strong>\u2013Bo Nix<\/a><\/strong> trio to draft Malik Nabers<\/a><\/strong> this year, doing so after the Patriots rebuffed his Drake Maye<\/a><\/strong>-centered trade offer for No. 3 overall. This proved risky, as the 2025 QB class is not held in the same regard<\/a> as this year\u2019s crop. But Schoen was in Miami for the Hurricanes\u2019 Wake Forest matchup, per Jones; Miami, of course, rosters one of next year\u2019s top prospects in QB Cam Ward<\/strong><\/a>. The team has already been tied to<\/a> Shedeur Sanders<\/a> <\/strong>as well. With Ward and Sanders viewed as next year\u2019s top two QB prospects, connections to the Giants should persist.<\/p>\n

The Giants chose their last QB1 in what was viewed as a down draft, having passed on both Sam Darnold<\/a><\/strong> and Josh Allen<\/a><\/strong> (to take Barkley) in 2018. Unless the team would be OK with a veteran replacing Jones, it appears another dive into a maligned draft pool at the position is on tap. As it stands, it will be Schoen making that call.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n