Things are seemingly pretty heated with the New York Giants right now. At 1-7 on the season, the team is a complete dumpster fire. That was brought out in great detail during last week’s 51-17 blowout home loss to the Los Angeles Rams.
By now, it’s known that head coach Ben McAdoo’s job is nowhere near safe. Players reportedly don’t like the man, and it seems that he has lost the locker room (more on that here).
Maybe as a way to come do the defense of his head coach, defensive coordinator Steve Spagnuolo got a bit testy with the media on Thursday. In responding to anonymous players ripping on the coaching staff, Spags had this to say.
“I don’t know anonymous. Yeah, I don’t know him … we just got to move on, we can’t worry about that,” Spagnuolo said. “It’s anonymous, right? Is that true, was it anonymous?”
The long-time coach went on to claim that said criticism could have been, and we’re paraphrasing here, fake news.
This is in response to one player speaking out on the dynamics in New York right now. And the words themselves are about as troublesome as it gets.
“McAdoo has lost this team. He’s going 80 percent on Saturdays (in practice) before we get on a plane, it’s wild,” the anonymous player said, via ESPN’s Josina Anderson. “Changed our off day. He’s dishing out fines like crazy. Suspended two of our stars when we need them most. Throws us under the bus all the time. He’s ran us into the ground and people wonder why we’ve been getting got.”
The good news here is that New York is set to take on a winless San Francisco 49ers team on Sunday. The bad news? The Giants are considered road underdogs against a squad that has won two of its past 25 games.
A loss here, and it would not be a shock to see McAdoo (and his coaching staff) fired on Monday.