Evan believes Brian Daboll has taken on a new reputation in year two of his tenure as Giants head coach, believing he has been far more “cowardly” with his coaching tendencies compared to his first season in New York.
Tiki agrees that Daboll hasn’t looked like the coach he was last season, and believes Sunday’s game against the Raiders will be a major point in his tenure as head coach.
“For the first time, I think coach Daboll is not in a position of control,” Tiki said. “There as a time where he got the job a year and a half ago, we didn’t know what to expect, and very quickly, he showed us. He was going to be a risk-taker, he’s gonna have his tema highly prepared, his team would talk about accountability…at the beginning of this season, things started to twist and turn. That solid foundation started to lose itself a little bit.
“To me, this is really the fork in the road for Brian Daboll. We need to know who he actually is. Not the guy who acted like he was confused about the Daniel Jones situation, wasn’t aware that his kicker was banged up and didn’t look right…Brian Daboll, we had a solid understanding of who he was. Now we’re waffling on that a little bit, and it’s nobody’s fault but his.”
Tiki believes fans will start to get answers on who the real Daboll is on Sunday, when the Giants take on a scuffling Raiders team that just fired their own head coach.
“Who is this head coach, and what can we expect from him going forward?” Tiki said. “I hope it’s what we saw last year, but I think this game starts defining that in a much clearer way.”