
Giants fire defensive coordinator Shane Bowen after another implosion
NY Post
Mike Kafka didn’t show the same patience level with Shane Bowen that Brian Daboll demonstrated.
The Kafka-led Giants fired Bowen, the embattled defensive coordinator, on Monday and thus shook up the coaching staff significantly for the second time in three weeks – after Daboll was fired as head coach and replaced on an interim basis by Kafka.
Outside linebackers coach Charlie Bullen will be named the interim defensive coordinator. He has never held a defensive coordinator position before.
The Giants (2-10) blew a fourth-quarter lead in a loss Sunday against the Lions for the fifth time this season and for the third straight week. They are the only team eliminated from playoff contention.
The Lions became the third opponent (Bears and Broncos) to erase a double-digit fourth-quarter deficit against the Giants, who fell to 2-5 in games that they have led by 10 or more points at any point. The Giants’ five blown double-digit leads tied an NFL record.
The change is a reversal from Kafka’s postgame stance.

Cade Cunningham, almost inarguably the best player in the East this season, is likely out for the remainder of the regular season. That’s the word out of Detroit following the depressing news that Cunningham punctured a lung when he took a knee to his side Tuesday from Washington’s Tre Johnson while chasing a loose ball.

Wednesday was another positive day at Yankees camp. For the first time since March 6, 2025 — an outing in which he knew “something wasn’t right,” which began a weeks-long saga that ended on the operating table for Tommy John surgery — Gerrit Cole was back on a mound and facing hitters in game action.











