Giants fan confidence starts 2025 on a low note
We have been asking New York Giants fans how confident they are in the direction of the team as a part of the SB Nation Reacts program.
With the 2024 season now in the rearview mirror and the 2025 off season upon us, we wanted to take the temperature of the fanbase one more time. Perhaps unsurprisingly, Giants fans aren’t terribly enthusiastic about the direction in which the team appears to be headed.
Only 30% of Giants fans are confident that the team is headed in the right direction now that the 2024 season is over with.
That is a steep dropoff from the 78% confidence with which fans entered the season. Much of the pessimism seems to be tied to the decision to keep Joe Schoen and Brian Daboll, as opposed to ownership changing regimes — at least in the comments sections.
Taking a step back from this week, we’ve gotten some interesting results over the season as a whole. Overall, Giants fans want to be confident in their team and while they’ve gotten down over individual losses, confidence tended to trend upward after taking hits.
In fact, one of the recent highs came after the Giants’ loss to the Atlanta Falcons when most (51%) of fans were confident that the team was headed in the right direction. That was the same week the Giants held the number one overall pick and fans were more confident than they’d been in over two months.
It only lasted a week, but the team having their pick of every player in the draft had fans excited. They found their silver lining in a storm tossed season.
Then the Giants had their best offensive performance in a decade, won a game, lost the first pick, and fan confidence dropped.
Now the Giants are picking third in the draft and their path to figuring out the most important position in sports is more complicated — to say the least. And despite a rookie class that has been universally lauded, most fans don’t seem confident that the team can turn things around any time soon.
We will, of course, see if that’s true and the Giants are headed nowhere fast, or if John Mara’s faith in Schoen and Daboll is actually well placed.