Giants fans’ demands for firings got louder with another aerial message for John Mara on Sunday.
This plane flew over MetLife Stadium before the Giants’ ninth straight loss to the Ravens carrying a new scathing directive:
‘MR. MARA ENOUGH. WE WON’T STOP UNTIL YOU FIRE EVERYONE.’
This was an even more direct shot at GM Joe Schoen and head coach Brian Daboll than last week’s plane over the Giants’ loss to the Saints that read: “MR MARA ENOUGH – PLZ FIX THIS DUMPSTER FIRE.”
“I ain’t paid for the plane,” rookie receiver Malik Nabers said after that 14-11 loss to New Orleans.
Daboll repeated a cliche several times to try to brush aside the plane fiasco after Sunday’s 35-14 blowout loss to Baltimore.
“Just control what we can control,” Daboll said four times in response to four questions on the topic.
The coach also claimed “I didn’t know about” the plane “until you told me right now.”
The Giants’ 2024 season, their 100th as a franchise, now has superseded the franchise’s infamous 1978 season by one full plane.
On Dec. 10, 1978, a fan unforgettably flew a rented plane overhead during a win over the St. Louis Cardinals with a sign that read:
“15 Years of Lousy Football….We’ve Had Enough.”
That preceded sweeping change to the organization in 1979.
Now the fans want the Giants to clean house again, fed up with the pathetic product on the field.
Wide receiver Darius Slayton interestingly said he doesn’t think there will be any changes to this staff.
“I don’t see it happening with this staff,” he said. “It seems like everyone’s gonna be here. It just doesn’t feel like there’s gonna be any changes made, which is fine. I don’t think there needs to be any.”
It’s not clear specifically why Slayton believes Mara and the Tisch family will retain this coach and GM.
It certainly feels like the Giants are letting this play out to the end of the season, at least, based on Mara’s silence and the organization’s non-reaction to this historically bad stretch.
Nabers, for his part, said that from his experience at other levels of football, the way to get out of constant losing is to add the right pieces to the existing group.
“Try to put great pieces together to win,” he said. “You’ve got to have all the right pieces together to have a winning program. We’re just trying to find those pieces to help us to win.”
What pieces does he think they need?
“I’m not sure yet,” said Nabers, who caught passes on Friday night in Manhattan from Colorado quarterback Shedeur Sanders. “I’m sure upstairs will do a great job finding the missing pieces to that. So I’m gonna leave them to do that.”
This time, Nabers was coached up to say less about the plane than he did the previous Sunday.
“I ain’t see it,” he said. “I ain’t see the plane.”
And Slayton chuckled.
“People got time and money,” he said. “If that’s how they choose to spend it, that’s on them.”
