When you lose the way the Giants did in Denver , the way no team has lost, it is incumbent upon the head coach, especially one who began the season on the hot seat, to pick up his team by the scruff of its neck and illustrate to every eye staring at him, from John Mara on down, that he is a leader worth following and keeping.

If he loses the team, he loses his dream job, it is that simple.

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And it would be easy now to lose his team, after barely surviving 3-14 last season, after 2-5 this season, after mind-blowingly losing games in Dallas and Denver that losing teams lose.

Brian Daboll has been a fighter his entire life, and no

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