Seth Weissman asks: 1. Whose decision was it to fire Daboll: Schoen’s or Mara’s?

2. (a) Why do you think Bowen was retained? (b) Do you think he’ll be gone at the end of the season when they Giants select a new head coach?

Ed says: Seth, it was clear from their statement that this was an ownership decision. Whether Joe Schoen made an effort to change the mind of John Mara and Steve Tisch I don’t know.

Why was Bowen retained? Only an educated guess here. Defensive players really do not know Mike Kafka. Before now they only knew him to say hello. They had never dealt with him. Perhaps because of that the feeling was they needed to give players on that side of the ball some form of continuity.

Truthfully, the time to fire Bowen would have been several weeks ago after the loss to the Denve

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