The Giants need to fire everybody.
Joe Schoen. Brian Daboll. Blow it up.
Unless John Mara and Steve Tisch are OK with being the laughingstock that lost to the horrendous Carolina Panthers with the world watching, 20-17 in overtime, on Sunday in Munich, Germany.
Unless the Giants’ two co-owners subscribe to the consistently pushed narrative that this is only Daniel Jones’ fault.
For the 100th time in this Giants 100th season: Jones is not good enough, but he remains only one of the franchise’s many fatal flaws.
This loss, which dropped the Giants to 2-8, happened because of a fumble by rookie running back Tyrone Tracy Jr. on the first play of OT.
Former Giant A’Shawn Robinson forced and recovered the fumble. Eddy Piñeiro made a 36-yard field goal to seal the Panthers win and possibly Schoen’s and Daboll’s fates.
Mara is on record saying his GM and coach are safe at least until the end of the season, but he has fired people shortly after giving votes of confidence before. And the facts are these:
The Giants don’t have enough talent in year three of this regime. They don’t manage games well. They have lost five in a row.
They can’t stop the run. Their pass rush has disappeared. They are the NFL’s lowest-scoring team. They were shut out in Sunday’s first half — again.
Punt returner Ihmir Smith-Marsette punched a Panther in the face. Daboll stormed around on the sidelines and threw up his hands whenever Jones made key mistakes.
This is also a Giants regime that cut starting corner Nick McCloud because he wouldn’t take a pay cut, and brought German tight end Jakob Johnson all the way to Munich to put a local face on their visit only to leave him deactivated for the game.
The Giants did outscore the Panthers 17-7 in Sunday’s second half. The defense got stops, and Jones directed two touchdown drives, capped by a 32-yard Tracy TD run and a 2-yard Jones TD run.
But two Jones interceptions in the game, including one on a Tracy drop in the fourth quarter, took points off the board. So did a missed 43-yard Graham Gano field goal attempt in the first half, before Gano redeemed himself with a 42-yard make in the final seconds of regulation to send it to overtime.
But this isn’t anything close to progress, which both Mara and co-owner Steve Tisch demand. This isn’t even the team-building equivalent of running in place.
The Giants stink. They lost to a team that already got the Saints head coach and the Raiders’ offensive coordinator fired.
And the Giants’ GM and head coach should be next during the bye week. This has run its course.
