The Giants proceed to wash home.
Exterior linebackers coach Charlie Bullen will function the interim DC.
The transfer got here the morning after the Giants’ protection failed but once more to guard a double-digit fourth-quarter lead in Sunday’s 34-27 loss in Detroit.
It was the fifth time this season that the Giants (2-10) misplaced a sport during which they led by at the very least 10 factors and the fifth time they blew a fourth-quarter lead.
The Giants took a 27-17 lead with 12:16 left in Sunday’s fourth quarter, however the Lions scored on their remaining two possessions of regulation, together with a drive that ended with a game-tying discipline objective with 28 seconds left.
The Lions then opened extra time with a Jahmyr Gibbs 69-yard landing run on the very first play, which proved to be the game-winner.
Detroit lit the Giants up with 494 yards of complete offense, with Gibbs erupting for 219 speeding yards, 45 receiving yards and three touchdowns.
The Giants are permitting the third-most yards per sport (385.0) and the third-most factors per sport (27.8) within the NFL, trailing solely the Cincinnati Bengals and Dallas Cowboys in each classes.
Sunday’s back-breaking defeat adopted equally excruciating losses in Dallas, Denver and Chicago.
In Week 2, the Cowboys picked up 21 yards and made a game-tying discipline objective within the remaining 25 seconds of regulation. That drive included an 18-yard completion from Dak Prescott to Jake Ferguson with the Giants in comfortable quarters protection.
“I gotta be better,” Bowen stated after that extra time loss, acknowledging he informed the crew he wished he “would have been a little bit tighter” and “made a little bit of [a] different call.”
In Week 7, Bowen’s protection surrendered 33 factors to the Broncos within the fourth quarter, setting a doubtful franchise document for essentially the most factors allowed in a single quarter. The Giants led 19-0 going into that fourth quarter and had been up 26-8 with below six minutes remaining.
And in Week 10, the Giants blew a 20-10 lead within the fourth quarter to the Bears, who scored a pair of touchdowns within the sport’s remaining 4 minutes.
Daboll took warmth for settling for a 19-yard discipline objective to go up by 10 factors early in that fourth quarter, relatively than go for it on 4th and objective from the 1-yard line. Daboll was fired after that loss, with co-owner John Mara saying in a press release that basic supervisor Joe Schoen would lead the seek for the subsequent head coach.
On Sunday, with the Giants clinging to a three-point lead, interim head coach Mike Kafka opted to go for it on 4th and objective from the 6-yard line with 2:59 left in regulation as a substitute of taking a brief discipline objective.
The Giants didn’t convert, and the Lions drove 53 yards to arrange Jake Bates’ game-tying 59-yard kick.
Bowen was in his second season because the Giants’ defensive coordinator. Final 12 months, the Giants ranked twenty fourth in complete protection and twenty first in opponent scoring.
The protection entered this season with lofty expectations after the Giants drafted go rusher Abdul Carter with the No. 3 total decide, including him to a fearsome entrance that already featured Dexter Lawrence, Brian Burns and Kayvon Thibodeaux.
The Giants additionally invested of their secondary by signing cornerback Paulson Adebo and security Jevon Holland to big-money contracts within the offseason.
