Mike Kafka would be the Giants’ offensive playcaller, head coach Brian Daboll introduced Monday.
Kafka, who was employed as offensive coordinator earlier this 12 months from the Kansas City Chiefs, known as performs for Big Blue’s offense this preseason, the place they completed 2-1.
The former Chiefs quarterback coach will start the common season playcalling duties in opposition to the Tennessee TItans on Sunday.
“I have a lot of confidence in Mike,” Daboll mentioned. “We’ll stay with how we did things in the preseason.”
Prior to Daboll’s hiring in January, he spent 4 season as an offensive coordinator calling performs with the Buffalo Bills. His time with the Bills was successful, making the postseason three out of 4 seasons he was there. The BIlls additionally averaged 28.4 factors per recreation final season, third greatest within the league.
Last season, the Giants’ offense began the season with Jason Garrett as playcaller. Garrett was ultimately fired and former Browns head coach Freddie Kitchens took over his obligation’s following a 30-10 week 11 loss in opposition to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Last season’s offensive struggles led to the group present process employees adjustments in hopes of placing an finish to dropping.
John Mara, president of the Giants, expressed that he “didn’t feel good” concerning the path that franchise was heading in after firing former head coach Joe Judge.
Big Blue averaged 287.3 yards per recreation, which was solely higher than the league’s worst Houston Texans.
In a small pattern measurement with restricted first-team reps, the Giants averaged 382.7 yards per recreation this preseason beneath Kafka’s playcalling, which ranked first within the league.
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