Brian Daboll’s return to his play-calling roots the right Giants move

How about this: The Giants will be getting a more seasoned and accomplished offensive play-caller — and also, as an added and welcome by-product, perhaps a calmer head coach — now that it appears Brian Daboll will be reaching back into his past to reclaim what got him to this exalted position in the first place. 

It is not even a secret anymore that Daboll will be the new play-caller on offense this season, a responsibility handled in 2022 and most of 2023 by offensive coordinator Mike Kafka. The Giants were 16th in the league in scoring in 2022 and plummeted to 30th in 2023, and to say this regression is all on Kafka is akin to saying your basement flooded because someone dropped an ice cube on the floor. 

This spring, it has been Daboll’s voice in the radio transmitters in the helmets of the quarterbacks. This is not breaking in a newbie who has never done it before. 

“I feel like that’s his comfortable spot,’’ second-year running back Eric Gray told The Post on Wednesday after the Giants wrapped up their second and final practice of their mandatory minicamp. “That’s what he’s used to doing, he’s been an OC. He knows his stuff. I feel like he goes home and just looks at plays all day. It’s really good.’’ 

When he was hired by the Giants, Daboll became a head coach for the first time, at any level, and he decided calling the plays — which he did, to great acclaim, the previous four seasons with the Bills — was going to be too much to handle and not the best way for him to oversee the entire operation. 

That was the right call then. This is the right call now.