Giants’ Joe Schoen would prefer Brian Daboll not call plays
On Monday, the New York Giants officially introduced Brian Daboll as the 20th coach in franchise history.
Daboll, like the Giants’ new general manager Joe Schoen, came over from Buffalo where they both had success turning the Bills franchise around over the past several seasons.
Obviously, the Buffalo background was something that attracted the Giants to both their new general manager and head coach but now, with increased responsibilities for both, it’s key that they, metaphorically, don’t bite off more than they can chew in their new roles.
As the work starts now on building the coaching staff around Daboll, it’s vital to bring in guys who have the same vision offensively as the new head coach.
In Daboll’s introductory press conference, he was asked if he planned calling plays and about his offensive philosophy.
“It’s going to be dependent on the players, that’s first and foremost. I don’t think you can — look, each place I’ve been, and particularly I’d say these last four years with Josh (Allen), we tried to develop a system that was conducive to his skillset along with the other pieces that we added,” Daboll said.
“That’ll be a work in progress. In terms of the play calling, I think that’s a work in progress, too. We’ll see who the offensive coordinator is, who the rest of the staff is and then we’ll talk about that as we get going through OTAs and minicamps, but it’ll be important. That position, that offensive coordinator position will be an important position for us.”
Obviously, there is a lot to be determined as the coaching staff gets filled out. As for Joe Schoen’s feelings, he prefers Daboll doesn’t call the plays.
“I’m not going to rule that out if he is or isn’t. We don’t have an offensive coordinator. If for some reason he had to — ideally, he doesn’t. I would prefer he manages the game,” Schoen said. “But, again, as we’re still interviewing offensive coordinator candidates, we’re going to wait and see how that plays out. Ideally, the offensive coordinator calls the plays, but, again, I’m not going to say that’s set in stone because we’re going to let Brian make that decision.”
Clearly, with the unknown involving who will be the offensive coordinator, Schoen did not want to exclude the possibility of the new head coach calling plays. With Schoen having already worked with Daboll in Buffalo, it’s nice to see the new GM trusts his head coach to make his own decision when it comes to who will be calling the plays on offense.
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