NFL insider updates if Giants' Brian Daboll, Joe Schoen are on hot seat

Multiple reporters suggested before the start of the 2024 NFL season that New York Giants co-owner John Mara wanted to stick with both head coach Brian Daboll and general manager Joe Schoen through at least 2025. However, such takes were offered before the Giants lost three of their first four games and before quarterback Daniel Jones failed to show he's vastly improved from where he was at this point last year. 

For a mailbag published on Wednesday, NFL insider Albert Breer of Sports Illustrated explained why he still feels Daboll and Schoen aren't yet on the hot seat regardless of the club's record. 

"The reality is those two led a 9–7–1 resurgence in their first year that got a team that hadn’t made the playoffs in six years into the tournament," Breer said. "And, yet, everyone there knew a retooling of the roster was coming, and that’s well underway now after the 2023 season and this year’s bumpy start."

Breer added that "the light at the end of the (Giants') rebuilding tunnel is getting brighter" now that Daboll and Schoen seemingly have an answer regarding what Jones is and isn't at this point of his career. 

As recently as Wednesday, NFL reporter/analyst Darryl Slater of NJ Advance Media for NJ.com reminded fans the Giants could soon move either primary backup Drew Lock or third-choice option Tommy DeVito to the top of the depth chart so the club can keep Jones healthy and then release him in March 2025. 

"I also don’t think John Mara wants to reset again," Breer continued. "He had three consecutive two-and-done coaches to follow Tom Coughlin, and the Giants have always valued stability. I think Daboll and Schoen have done enough to allow for Mara to provide everyone with that in 2025."

Some continue to link the Giants with former New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick, as Belichick reportedly wants to return to the sidelines next year and earned his first two career Super Bowl rings serving as an assistant and later as defensive coordinator with Big Blue from 1979 through the 1990 season. 

With that said, Belichick turns 73 years old in April and probably would only join a team in the middle of a rebuild if other franchises went in different directions this coming winter.