The partnership between Giants head coach Brian Daboll and defensive coordinator Wink Martindale was said to be hanging on by a thread.
According to a report from Fox Sports NFL insider Jay Glazer, there is ‘tension’ building between New York head coach Brian Daboll and defensive coordinator Don ‘Wink’ Martindale. That report came out before Sunday’s game.
“These guys are in a bad place,” Glazer said Sunday during the Fox pregame show. “Bad place to the point where, I don’t see them actually continuing their relationship after this season, maybe not even during this season. Could be a mutual parting of the ways. When I talked to people inside that organization, they’re saying the tension between these two, you could feel it. It’s just getting worse.”
Giants head coach Brian Daboll had a savage response to that report.
First, he gave the game ball to Wink Martindale after the team defeated the New England Patriots.
He then told the reporters at the press conference about what he and Wink argued about.
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“I’d say the only argument between me and Wink is over who gets the last slice of pizza”
Daboll and Martindale, both in their second years with the Giants, spearheaded a turnaround that saw a five-win improvement from 2021 to 2022, as well as the franchise’s first playoff victory since 2011.
The team even upset the Minnesota Vikings in the wild-card round before falling to the eventual NFC champion Philadelphia Eagles in the divisional round.
Things have not gone well in 2023 as the team has reverted back to the losing ways that have plagued them for much of the past decade.
The team is now 4-8 and well out of the playoff race.
