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Brian Daboll’s work in 2024 to deodorise the smell of this 6-11 season became a little more difficult on Monday, when Wink Martindale resigned from his role hours after the Giants head coach told reporters he anticipated his defensive coordinator to stay next season.
In the end, Martindale, an outstanding but divisive defensive coach, did not like the way Daboll treated him, who trains his guys and coaches hard, and the two split up. Martindale likely expects he will join one of the rising number of NFL teams that have fired their coaches.
Martindale is a beloved figure among the Giants’ defensive players, so this event will undoubtedly have an impact within the locker room. But the players, who clean
They took off their lockers on Monday and left for the summer, not playing again for eight months.
The Daboll-Martindale relationship first came under public attention when Fox Sports reported in late November that the two coaches were in “a bad place” with “tension,” which may lead to Martindale’s season ending.
That allegation came only days after the Giants’ defence surrendered 640 total offensive yards to the Cowboys in an ugly, noncompetitive 49-17 Week 10 defeat in Dallas. During the game, the two coaches were spotted having a heated conversation on the bench in the first half.
Both later downplayed the talk as a non-issue, but it was no accident that the Fox report surfaced days later. Reading the tea leaves, it was evident that Martindale or someone close to him spilled his scorn to the Fox reporter, which enraged Daboll, who has little tolerance for internal leaks.”He and I talk all the time,” Martindale stated following the Dallas incident.