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If you think Brian Daboll and Joe Schoen are on the hot seat, I’ve got a bridge in East Rutherford to sell you…right next to the grave of Dave Gettleman’s draft board.

No, Daboll and Schoen aren’t on the verge of getting fired. They’re not clueless. They’re not flying blind. What they are doing is executing the most patient, strategic, slow-burn rebuild the Giants have had in over a decade. And it’s about damn time someone pointed that out.

Because ever since they took over in 2022, this front office has been cleaning up Gettleman’s mess like a pair of janitors walking into a bar fight. Bloated contracts. Old legs. A culture of losing. The kind of organizational dysfunction that doesn’t get fixed by tossing a couple Band-Aids and drafting a shiny new gadget receiver.

And yet, they still managed to make the playoffs and win a game in Year 1. That should’ve bought them more grace than it did. But in this microwave sports culture, where every rebuild is expected to pay off in two seasons or less, people are acting like Schoen’s out here playing fantasy GM and Daboll’s just a bald Matt Patricia with better WiFi.

Let’s be real: the Giants’ last two seasons have looked messy on the surface. Saquon walked. Daniel Jones went from 4-year, $160 million “maybe” to an expensive clipboard holder. The Leonard Williams trade signaled a reset. But look closer , every one of those moves had a long-game logic to it.

Trading Leonard? That was about clearing cap space and flipping a guy who wasn’t part of the long-term vision. Letting Saquon walk? Painful, yeah. But smart. Paying top-dollar for a 27-year-old running back in 2024 is how you end up in football purgatory. And when the Eagles overpaid for him (and he turned down more to go there), it only made Schoen look sharper. That money didn’t just disappear — it helped bring in Brian Burns, a pass-rushing monster who actually fits the timeline.

Then there’s the Jones situation. Giving him the bag looked shaky in hindsight, sure. But it was a hedge. They had to see if 2022 Danny Dimes was a fluke or a late bloomer. Turns out it was fool’s gold. The key is they moved off him. Fast. No ego. No doubling down. Just course correction, full steam ahead.

And now, we get to the part people are overlooking: the future. Or, more specifically, Jaxson Dart.

They didn’t stumble into Dart…they traded up to get him. Passed on stopgaps. Brought in Russell Wilson as a placeholder and mentor. Surrounded Dart with baby weapons like Malik Nabers and Jalin Hyatt. Stacked the defense with Burns, Thibodeaux, Dexter Lawrence, and now rookie edge terror Abdul Carter. This isn’t panic. This is the core of a damn good football team taking shape.

The wide receiver room? Full of young legs and upside. The pass rush? Possibly top-five in the league if Carter pops. The secondary? Quietly deep now with Jevon Holland and Paulson Adebo in the mix. This roster is being built from the trenches out, with speed and versatility everywhere else. And best of all — no more contracts anchoring them to 2020’s bad ideas.

If you’re screaming “hot seat” in this moment, you’re not paying attention. You’re letting record blindness block strategic vision. You’re yelling about the house still being under construction because you walked in during drywall day.

Let’s also talk about the 2025 schedule. It’s a meat grinder. The Giants could go 7-10 and still be better than they were last year. They face a gauntlet of elite defenses, road traps, and top-tier QBs. If you think Schoen and Daboll are being judged purely on wins and losses this year, you don’t understand how grown-up franchises operate.

This year isn’t about making the playoffs. It’s about seeing what Dart has. It’s about Nabers becoming the guy. It’s about that pass rush wrecking games late in the fourth. If all of that happens, even in a losing season, you bet your ass this front office gets another year.

The hot seat narrative is just lazy. It’s driven by Twitter impatience, not actual football sense. Schoen and Daboll didn’t botch this rebuild. They started it. They took the medicine Gettleman never would. And now that they’re finally building something sustainable, the last thing the Giants should do is press reset again.

If anything, Daboll and Schoen deserve more leash. Not less. Because for the first time in a long time, there’s a plan in place. Not a panic. Not a patch job. A real, actual vision.

And that’s something Giants fans — and ownership — should ride with, not run from.