John Mara spoke at length with reporters on Monday after announcing his decision to stick with Joe Schoen and Brian Daboll, and Keith McPherson couldn’t believe that the owner of a once proud franchise would give another chance to a regime that has been at the helm of one of the worst teams in football for the past two years.
“The Giants are the laughingstock of the league,” Keith said.
Mara seemed to be preaching stability when discussing his decision, but Keith doesn’t care about past head coaching and GM casualties that only lasted two seasons. They were fired because the results weren’t good enough, and the results from Daboll and Schoen have not nearly been good enough to justify another season at the helm.
“It used to be ‘This isn’t good enough, you gotta go.’ There are expectations here,” Keith said. “For just how the organization is viewed, how they handle themselves, and how they operate. There have been a comedy of errors under Joe Schoen and Brian Daboll, and they got away with it.”
For Keith, listening to Daboll and Schoen speak after Mara only solidified his viewpoint that the two should have been fired, as they almost seem to believe themselves that they sidestepped the unemployment line when it would have been well within Mara’s means to fire both after a miserable three-win season.
“He knows he got away with one. That cat’s got nine lives,” Keith said of Daboll. “You have a coach who wasn’t prepared to have a healthy kicker during the year, who was supposed to be this quarterback whisperer…I don’t want to hear about your evaluation of a quarterback who winds up in another building and succeeds elsewhere.
“If [Schoen] can’t admit fault on the Daniel Jones deal, what are we talking about? You got an ego…it’s a lot of lies.”