... his play-calling duties after the 2002 New York Giants scored 10 or fewer points in four of their first seven games.
With Fassel calling the shots, the Giants averaged 27 points, won seven of their nine games and scored 38 in a wild first-round playoff loss to the San Francisco 49ers. Although Payton kept his title, the scoring explosion pointed to him as the real goat rather than just the scapegoat for the slow start.
Suffice it to say he recovered from the most embarrassing time of his coaching life pretty well. His career trajectory has gone straight up while Fassel’s has gone straight down.
Fassell has been fired twice, first by the Giants two weeks before the end of the 2003 season, then by the Baltimore Ravens in October of 2006 as offensive coordinator after his unit ranked 31st, 24th and 28th in two and a half years. He has been out of the league since then and reportedly will coach the Las Vegas franchise in the upstart UFL thi...
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