{"id":381454,"date":"2025-11-15T20:20:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-15T20:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/381454\/"},"modified":"2025-11-15T20:20:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-15T20:20:47","slug":"mike-kafka-cant-waste-chance-to-show-why-he-should-be-giants-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/381454\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Kafka can&#8217;t waste chance to show why he should be Giants&#8217; coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This won\u2019t be anything like playing quarterback for Northwestern, and it won\u2019t be anything like coaching the young Patrick Mahomes, and it won\u2019t be <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/14\/sports\/the-troubling-history-facing-jaxson-dart-after-giants-coaching-change\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">anything like calling plays for Jaxson Dart<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If the Giants take a double-digit lead into the fourth quarter against the Packers, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/12\/sports\/how-mike-kafka-handled-his-first-day-as-giants-coach-with-tone-setting-decisions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it is Mike Kafka now<\/a> who must find a way to keep it.<\/p>\n<p>If it is fourth-and-inches at the goal line in the fourth quarter, it is Mike Kafka now who must decide whether to kick the field goal to take a 10-point lead or go for it.<\/p>\n<p>If defensive coordinator Shane Bowen is <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/11\/13\/sports\/giants-shane-bowen-takes-his-share-of-blame-for-brian-dabolls-firing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reluctant to bring the heat at the end<\/a>, it is Mike Kafka now who can prevent him from staying with any prevent defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This won\u2019t be anything like playing quarterback for Northwestern, and it won\u2019t be anything like coaching the young&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":381455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,39900,58347,405,403,4716,5226,5225,1232,5228,5227,62,2632,2225,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-381454","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-joe-schoen","10":"tag-mike-kafka","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-city","13":"tag-new-york-giants","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-nfl","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-sports-columnists","21":"tag-sports-plus","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115555573631168209","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=381454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/381455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}