The New York Giants did not win Mike Kafka’s debut as an NFL head coach on Sunday. It is certainly, though, hard to blame the Giants’ interim head coach.

It was a pretty impressive first act for Kafka in his audition for the full-time coaching job in 2026. • Kafka disciplined rookie edge defender Abdul Carter. • The head coach, calling offensive plays, went for it on fourth down four times. Three of those were on one drive. • Kafka said he would have gone for two if the Giants had scored a touchdown in the final two minutes when they were behind 27-20. • An insistence on pounding the ball with the running game led to a 38-carry, 142-yard day that saw the Giants dominate the time of possession, 35:56-24:04. • Kafka took the ball rather than deferring, which has become standard, w

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