The Giants chose to stick with Schoen and Daboll. Daboll also looks to be staying with Bowen. Others have chimed in with a fairly rigorous review. BBB here. And Ranaan here. I highly recommend both. I will try to put it all together and summarize the vomit without going into too much further commentary than has already been provided.
Before the season, I reiterated support for Schoen. Why the change in believing it was proper to move on? Russell Wilson, that is why. What makes it all worse is that we now see Schoen trying to nickel and dime McCloud intraseason (not typically done by GMs) while he also spent $5M on Lock instead of $1.2M on Wilson. To say that Ranaan’s report on Schoen (and Daboll) is unflattering is an understatement. It is not to say that there are still some things that Schoen has done well (2024 draft, cap discipline) … and that a good QB will help Daboll (who has receivers with plenty of regular separation) immensely. These are things noted by BBB. Yet it goes back to Mara’s decision to keep them. Enter Garafolo, who has “seen this movie before” and points out that Mara will be watching for meaningful improvement in 2025. Hot seat. This means the pressure to go QB is clearly there. I cannot trust Schoen to do anything at QB that is measured and disciplined. Schneier says that you don’t go to the supermarket “shopping hungry.” Forget hungry; Schoen is stoned and he is running out to the convenience store at 2AM. Go easy on the junk food.