New York Giants defensive coordinator Shane Bowen is lucky that Giants fans don’t run the team. If they did, he would already have found himself among the ranks of fired coaches.
This week we asked the Big Blue View community whether they think Bowen should be fired, and if so, when.
The result was overwhelmingly that Bowen should be fired, and fired as soon as possible.
Most recently, the Giants suffered a historic collapse that saw them squander a 26-8 lead over the Denver Broncos. Giants head coach Brian Daboll said after the game that he wasn’t considering any changes to the coaching staff, at least “at this time”.
However, there’s been a pattern of poor play from Bowen’s unit. The Giants’ defense has struggled in almost every area under Bowen, and has continued to do so this year despite having almost all of the teams’ resources poured into that side of the ball.
The Giants’ loss in Denver may have been the final straw for many Giants fans, but Bowen was already on thin ice with the fanbase. And while Bowen has adapted his style and scheme to the Giants’ personnel, the results just haven’t been there — even before the Broncos game.
Despite the loss, however, Giants fans still remain broadly high on their team’s future.
Two thirds of fans are confident in the future of the team. That’s down 15 points from last week’s confidence level of 84%, but still high compared to how despondent fans were after the losses to Washington and New Orleans (27 and 24%, respectively).
The fact that the Giants scored five touchdowns against (arguably) the best defense in the NFL despite missing Malik Nabers has to have softened the blow of the defensive collapse. Likewise, rookie QB Jaxson Dart’s continued development has to inspire confidence in the fanbase.
Fans were extremely confident coming off of Dart’s impressive off-season performance, and we can also see fan confidence lift when Dart became the starter. It certainly helps that the Giants are 2-2 (could be 4-0) and have fielded a Top 10 scoring offense with Dart as their starter — all without Malik Nabers.
So far fans have good reason to be confident about the future of the franchise. We’ll just have to wait and see what happens with the coaching staff going forward.
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