It’s the end of the line for Brian Daboll in New York. In the wake of another fourth-quarter collapse, this time blowing a 10-point fourth-quarter lead to the Bears in Week 10, the New York Giants have fired the head coach.
This ends a turbulent tenure for Daboll and the Giants, owning a 20-40-1 regular-season record, which includes their 2-8 campaign in 2025. With Daboll shown the door, the next question is who’ll replace him. Offensive coordinator Mike Kafka will serve as the interim head coach, but a larger search is upcoming this offseason.
If you are hoping that it could be current Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin, however, you might not want to get your hopes up. Given the emergence of rookie sensation Jaxson Dart as a franchise cornerstone at quarterback, folks have drawn the logical line to giving Kiffin a call to see if he’d want to reunite with his former quarterback and return to the NFL.
While it makes sense on paper, judging by what Brandon Dart, Jaxson’s father, had to say about that possible reunion, it doesn’t sound like a realistic option.
“As we were texting on our Kiffin-Dart family text thread, because I think Boomer Esiason had said something in the media today that maybe they should throw out a potential coaching (offer) to Kiffin, and he just sent it over with a smirk and just said, ‘It’s too cold in New York for me.’ It’s just kind of funny,” Brandon Dart recently told the “Bleav in Ole Miss” podcast, via the New York Post.
“But we have our weekly interactions with him and his family, and Jaxson holds high regard. I think Kiffin is one of his most trusted allies, and I think he uses him for advice in a lot of different ways, so there’s constant communication between them, even today, and there’s a lot of…
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