We’ve got our first official candidate for the Giants’ head coaching job. According to NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero (via Twitter), the Giants have requested permission to interview Cowboys defensive coordinator Dan Quinn.
The Giants are currently interviewing GM candidates, and the team seemed focused on filling that role before moving on to their other vacancy. However, as Ralph Vacchiano of SNY tweets, the Giants saw the interest that Quinn was generating around the NFL and “wanted to get in the game.” Per our 2022 NFL Head Coaching Search Tracker, Quinn has already been connected to five openings. The Giants completed their second interview with Chiefs executive director of player personnel Ryan Poles today, and they’ve already met twice with Bills assistant GM Joe Schoen. 49ers assistant GM Adam Peters will meet with the team tomorrow.
After being out of the game for much of last season, with the Falcons firing him after a bad start, Quinn has moved himself back onto the head-coaching radar. The Cowboys’ defense has improved significantly in his first season overseeing the unit. Quinn interviewed for the Broncos job yesterday and the Vikings job today, and he’s set to meet with the Dolphins and Bears. He previously declined an early interview with the Jaguars, and it remains to be seen if he’ll meet with the organization.
With Quinn on the board, we’ll surely learn of more Giants HC candidates in the coming weeks. So far, the organization has been connected to former Dolphins head coach Brian Flores and Bills offensive coordinator Brian Daboll.
Not being cynical but how does a coach spend 6 years in Atlanta, choke away a Super Bowl barely be above .500 coaching record have 1 return year as a defensive coach and suddenly become “ The Hottest Candidate” on the interview list? These owners have made millions of dollars and every year there is some kind of can’t miss coach everyone has to have who 90% of the time flame out.
Have been thinking the same thing. Some coaches are just good assistants. Why can’t that be a thing for some of these guys?
Quinn makes a better assistant reminds me of Larry Rothschild horrible manager awesome pitching coach
Agreed. There are so many that fill that category, but don’t know until they try. I can even understand the second chance in some cases, but after that, it becomes questionable.
I don’t know about the other teams interested in Quinn, but the Giants may be suffering from that ‘in-division bias’ thing here. They hire Garrett for the same reason. Another example is the Jets when they hired Gase.
Falcons are the NFC South. Giants are in the NFC East.
And Dan Quinn is the defensive coordinator for the Cowboys who play in what division? Did you read the article?
Why aren’t they requesting to interview other coaches if they are doing so for Dan Quinn?
This would be a typical Mara move. They need to rebuild from the ground up so they hire away a division rival’s DC who already flamed out in one place and is 14-23 in his last 37 games.
Pure idiocy if they hire him, so I fully expect them to renege on their ‘the new GM will pick the coach’ rule and announce him as HC tomorrow.
I hope they hire him – as I want Denver to pick an offensive specialist as HC.
Giants should hire an offensive minded coach. Every playoff team this year has an offensive minded coach
Vrabel’s a defensive guru who happened to coach the Titans to the #1 seed this year, with only half a season of Derrick Henry and not much help from Julio. Belichick, Tomlin, and McDermott are also defensive-minded coaches. Heck, Rich Bisaccia is a special teams’ guy and brought the Raiders to the playoffs. So no, not all the head coaches of playoff teams are offensive-minded.
Obviously a great DC, but why is he considered for a HC position after 1 year with Dallas?
Brian Flores deserves another shot as a HC. He did a great job in Miami with the personnel he was given. Flores to the Vikings would make a lot of sense. He should stay away from the Jaguars job and the Giants job too.