Mike Kafka was considered an up-and-coming offensive coordinator and a strong candidate at some point to get hired somewhere as an NFL head coach. That was before the events of the past month.

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It can be stated with certainty that Kafka as the interim head coach has not provided an elixir to what ails a sick team, but he has not ruined the Giants. On the flip side, are the Giants ruining Kafka?

Short answer: They sure haven’t helped him at all.

He inherited a mess of a team. The Giants were 2-8, on a four-game losing streak, capable of building leads going into the fourth quarter and even more capable of blowing those leads when Brian Daboll was fired.