SO SAD AS NEW YOURK GAINT COACH RECEIVE A FIRING NOTES SOME MINUTES AGO DUE TO.....

In hindsight, Brian Daboll told a bit of a lie in his first hours as a Giant. He hopped out of a blue pickup that January day projecting the vibe of a friendly stranger willing to deliver punch lines at his own expense.

Daboll was a nice guy, everyone around the NFL agreed, and it would be interesting to see how his demeanor matched up with the pressures and demands of the job. As it turned out, the rookie wasn’t so neighborly on game day. He rebuked his starting quarterback during the season opener, ripped into a backup offensive lineman during the Houston game, and savagely assailed the poor official who dared to take away a touchdown during last week’s loss to Dallas.

Daboll celebrated his Thanksgiving by slamming down his headset and berating the ref as if the man had just served him a subpoena. The coach stared at him in a definitive if-looks-could-kill way, and started his postgame presser in a mood in stark contrast to his mood on that first day on the job.

And that’s perfectly fine. Pro football is an unforgiving business, and anybody can lose his or her cool on any given Thursday. Truth is, Daboll has hit the right human buttons with his team 90 percent of the time, a chief reason why the 7-4 Giants still have a good shot at making the playoffs.

But this next game, against Washington, will be the first December game of Daboll’s head-coaching life. That’s notable because Daboll made it notable in a Monday team meeting, and because Kayvon Thibodeaux disclosed that the message sent was the idea that “the beginning of the season starts now.”