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Brian Daboll was hired as the 20th head coach in Giants history on Jan. 28, 2022, and directed one of the most successful debut seasons in the 98-year history of the franchise.

Daboll was named the 2022 NFL Coach of the Year after leading a resurgence that resulted in nine regular-season victories, the team’s first playoff berth in six years, and its first postseason victory in 11 seasons.

Daboll, 48, was the first Giants coach to be selected Coach of the Year since Jim Fassel in 1997. Like Fassel, Daboll took over a team that was last in the NFC East the previous year and led it to the playoffs in his debut season. He took the team one step further by defeating the Minnesota Vikings in an NFC Wild Card Game.

Mike Kafka is in his second season as the Giants’ offensive coordinator and seventh as an NFL coach.

The offense significantly improved in Kafka’s first season as coordinator.

The Giants’ 365 points were 107 more than they scored in 2021. They averaged 333.9 yards a game, an increase of 46.6 yards per game. One year after averaging 99.3 rushing yards a game and 4.0 yards per carry, the Giants finished fourth in the NFL with 148.2 rushing yards a game and fifth with 4.8 yards a carry. Their 352 first downs were 53 more than the previous season.

Don “Wink” Martindale is his second season as the Giants’ defensive coordinator, his 19th season in the NFL and his 36th year in coaching.

In 2023, Martindale was one of three recipients of the Pro Football Writer Association’s Paul “Dr. Z” Zimmerman Award, which is presented for lifetime achievement as an NFL assistant coach. The award is named for Zimmerman, who covered the NFL for 29 years as Sports Illustrated’s lead pro football writer. The other honorees John Mitchell, who retired following the 2022 season after 31 years as an NFL defensive line coach, including 28 with the Pittsburgh Steelers, and the late Bobb McKittrick, an offensive line coach in the league from 1971-99, who coached in five Super Bowls.

Thomas McGaughey, is in the sixth season of his second stint with the Giants and his sixth as their special teams coordinator. He was previously a coordinator for three other NFL teams.