Brian Daboll was the toast of the city in his first season with the Giants, main New York to an sudden postseason look and successful a number of teaching awards.
Daboll’s rock star standing within the Large Apple has not gone unnoticed by workforce proprietor John Mara, who mentioned throughout a current interview that he jokingly supplied a lighthearted warning to his head coach.
“We child him, “Mara informed SiriusXM NFL Radio. “I imply, proper now he is Bono strolling round New York Metropolis.
“However I’ve informed him — I’ve mentioned: ‘On this enterprise, it does not take lengthy to go from Bono to Bozo. So do not get your head too large proper now.’ However he has been nice.”
In his first season as an NFL head coach, Daboll inherited a rebuilding Giants workforce that had posted 5 consecutive seasons with double-digit losses and completed final within the NFC East thrice over that span.
Regardless of low expectations, the Giants went 9-7-1 beneath Daboll and reached the playoffs for the primary time since 2016, upsetting the Vikings within the wild-card spherical earlier than being eradicated by the Eagles the next weekend.
Daboll, a longtime assistant each on the NFL and school degree, was named the NFL Coach of the 12 months by each The Related Press and the Professional Soccer Writers Affiliation of America.
“He likes to go to Rangers video games on the Backyard, they usually put his image up there and he will get these standing ovations week after week,” Mara mentioned throughout the interview. “So it is a fairly cool factor to see.”
Daboll mentioned earlier this week on the NFL house owners conferences in Arizona that the Giants nonetheless have a “lengthy climb” in 2023 and past to catch the Eagles, the reigning NFC champions who received all three conferences between the division rivals final season.
“What you do one yr has no correlation to what you do subsequent yr,” he informed reporters Tuesday. “What you do one sport has no correlation to what you do the subsequent sport. … When it comes to the place we’re at and issues we obtained to do, we obtained an extended climb forward of us.”