Giants’ Brian Daboll knows he needs to stop blowing a gasket so often
NY Post
ORLANDO, Fla. — There was one word Brian Daboll kept coming back to in describing the way he attacks his job: passionate.
Striking the right balance with that passion is something Daboll admits he continues to work on as he embarks on his third year as the head coach of the Giants.
There were shots of Daboll during his first season blowing his stack on the sideline but his team compiled a winning record and so the eruptions were less glaring.
Those emotive incidents increased in frequency and ferocity as the Giants in 2023 lost eight of their first 10 games and finished with an unsightly 6-11 record.
Daboll is who he is, but he seems to realize that he can get better results if he chills out a bit.
“Look, every year there’s a self-evaluation process that goes on, whether I was a position coach, a coordinator, in this case a head coach,’’ Daboll said Tuesday morning at the NFL’s annual league meeting. “I’m a very passionate person but, yeah, there’s times I wish I had handled things a little bit differently, certainly. So you continue to grow, you continue to evolve and that’s what I try to do every year.”
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In a different time, in a season to come, we may be inclined to wax poetic about the way this one played out. In a different time, in a season to come, the Nets will be seeking to stack wins and not losses, will be fighting for playoff seeding and not for a few extra ping-pong balls in the draft lottery this spring.
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