New York Giants: 2025 State of the Union
Season Review:
The New York Giants wrapped up week 9 with a gut punch of a loss to the 49ers. That leaves the Giants at a defeating 2-7 on the year. The worst start since….last year….and the year before. When I started this blog covering my love for the New York Giants, I never accounted for having to find things to write about during another terrible hopeless season. Coming off an ugly showing where our defense continued to show why Shane Bowen should be left off the team plane and kept in Denver weeks ago, we got dominated on the ground. Prior to the Denver game, I kept hope for a Wildcard run, even with our NFL’s toughest schedule.
Now that hope is gone. What can we do? Ownership needs to decide YESTERDAY what their decision on the coaching staff will be. I am aligned with keeping our GM Joe Schoen, as it seems no successful franchises constantly switch up their upper management positions. He’s done okay in my opinion, and the last draft you could argue he drafted the #1 and #2 best players in the entire draft. Depth and aligning players to coaches scheme will be key, and I believe going in the direction of a “business manager” type of a head coach who keeps their composure and puts together good coaching staffs is what we need and are currently lacking. Brian Daboll is a great football mind, but terrible head coach.
Right now the season is over, but the future is still somewhat bright.
Biggest Positives from the Season
Brian Burns: The man has proven to be one of the best trades of all time for the New York Giants. Every game you can expect him to give his all, finish hard to the ball, and dominate. It’s no secret that it takes more than one player dominating to create positive results…hence our 2-7 record…but Brian Burns leading the NFL in sacks with 11 is nothing to take lightly! All-Pro Season confirmed.
The Future- Jaxson Dart: He’s everything we could’ve hoped for and way more. At this very moment, you could say he’s suffering from a bit of terrible luck, and failure from the organization as the main reasons we’re still losing. We quickly forget that he was two missed extra points and the worst defensive 4th quarter meltdown away from leading his team with victories against the Chargers, Eagles, and the Broncos. He’s had his share of rookie moments whether it’s him occasionally holding on to the ball too long trying to make something out of nothing, or a brainless “too much popcorn” type of fumble, but for the most part he has done nothing but SHINE. The kid is a “DAWG” and he’s not scared of shit. I am 100% sure we have our future quarterback that we can finally build around.
The Eye Test: This is admittedly one of the more loser opinions I have as a fan of the New York Giants…but this team has passed the eye test this season. Below are games where we passed the eye test but still lost:
Cowboys: Coaching and field goal mastery led to our late game loss and overtime loss (no Jaxson)
Saints: 14-3 lead. Looked dominate. Then fumbled the ball 4 times in a row. Impossible to win.
Broncos: Absolutely dominating the entire game. No team in NFL history has lost a game with the same lead with the amount of time left than the Giants did against Denver. 2 missed extra points away from winning either way.
Won and dominated against the Chargers and Eagles. Would have had a shot to beat Chiefs if Jaxson Dart was at QB.
The Painful Truth
This coaching regime is OVER. The story broke that after our historic blown loss verse the Denver Broncos that ownership was ready to fire Coach Brian Daboll right off the plane. They had to be talked down by “cooler heads”, which tells you everything. It is time to start planning NOW.
More missing pieces than I believed when heading into the season. Injuries can not completely destroy a team like it does our team every year. This could be a coaching issue not having the backups prepared, but we need to work on our depth to help our foundational pieces ASAP.
Our division will be a juggernaut for a long-time, we need to build something explosive and feared to have a shot at competing each year.
The health of Jaxson Dart should be #1 priority right now on the minds of every person in ownership and management right now. Any chance to take him out whether we are up by a lot or down by a lot, needs to be taken.
2026 Way Too Early Prediction
After drafting a playmaker in round 1, our offense with a healthy Nabers, a great rookie WR2, Skattebo, an all-pro left tackle, and a franchise Quarterback….we will be a top 10 offense in the NFL.
A veteran coach with experience will add stability to the coaching staff we haven’t seen since Tom Coughlin.
A major shakeup on the defensive side of the ball. Possible trade of Dexter Lawrence and a draft for Clemson’s beast in round one to replace and add draft capital as another option instead of a playmaker. Possible.
2026 will be the official first season of REAL team improvement, and a shift in the culture of losing games we should’ve won….to closing out games we should win. Wild card weekend in our grasp.
As painful as it all is year after year with a few tease seasons thrown in the middle… I truly see a light at the end of the tunnel. We have our franchise quarterback, ball is in your court Joe Schoen. Let’s see what we can build.
