I’ll leave if he’s not fired.” Due to their major miscommunication, a key player for Giants has stated he will leave the team if his colleague is not dismissed.
From the top down, the organization has acknowledged that the New York Giants’ offseason has been ugly from an optics standpoint. Things started to spiral on Black Monday when head coach Brian Daboll fired defensive assistants Drew and Kevin Wilkins, who had reportedly expressed a desire to leave the team, and defensive coordinator Wink Martindale stormed off the job after Daboll’s dismissal. Eventually, the two sides decided to “part ways.”
Mike Kafka, the offensive coordinator, stayed, but not because he wanted to. The 36-year-old was determined to move on from East Rutherford and never look back, even if it meant accepting a lateral role, despite losing out on two head coaching positions.
The whole thing was dissected by Ryan Dunleavy of the New York Post during a recent visit on Talkin’ Giants with Bobby Skinner and Justin Penik.
According to Dunleavy, “my sources tell me that, yes, he wanted out over the course of whatever it was, three or four months.” According to people I personally know, Mike Kafka desired a lateral move. He felt that Brian Daboll would be the offensive play-caller, so he wanted to go as an offensive coordinator somewhere.
He thinks he will lose his play-calling responsibilities, therefore a lateral move isn’t really a lateral move. That means that rather than being a lateral shift, the offensive coordinator with play-calling responsibilities elsewhere would be retaining his existing position.
