Former Giants star slams ongoing coaching debate: ‘At some point, it’s your a–‘

Former Giants defensive end Chris Canty has seen enough.

After watching his former team go 2-7 for the third year in a row, Canty knows where to point the finger. According to him, Brian Daboll is to blame for the team’s inability to improve, even though it is improving year after year in terms of talent.

“You’ve hired and fired enough coordinators,” Canty said Friday on former Jets linebacker Bart Scott’s ESPN New York radio show, via X/Twitter. “How did that work? Look, you ran Wink Martindale out of town. You ran him out of town, a guy who’s damn good at his job, and it hasn’t gotten much better since.

“You can’t keep hiring and firing coordinators and pointing fingers at other people. At some point, it’s your ass.”

While Scott agrees with Canty that Daboll hasn’t done enough this season to save his job, he wonders where is the team looking for a head coach?

In Bart’s opinion, that decision should be left to the team’s rookie quarterback, Jaxson Dart.

“The CEO, or let’s just say, the president of the team, is the starting quarterback,” Bart responded.

“So I think it depends on the quarterback,” Bart continued. “Do you want to have a new coach? What type of system are you looking for? Because yes, Daboll maybe doesn’t deserve to be the coach here, but you also have to wonder who is the next person?

“For me, a hire from the Giants, because we know they’re not going to do something extraordinary, they’re not going to go and get Lane Kiffin. They’ll bring in Mike McCarthy. They’ll bring in someone like that. … What you don’t want is you don’t want a new guy learning on the job again, right?”

Daboll’s tenure as head coach of the Giants has been a rollercoaster.

After a promising debut season in 2022 that ended with a playoff victory and Coach of the Year honors, New York has since struggled to find consistency. Daboll’s offensive background did not translate into sustained success, with injuries, poor line play and quarterback instability derailing progress.

As the losses pile up, the question arises whether Daboll can regain control of the locker room and reestablish the disciplined identity that once made the Giants one of the best teams in the league.