Now, Garrett isn’t exactly safe. Everyone’s on the hot seat at 0-3 and with co-owner John Mara fuming. At some point, Mara might demand a sacrificial lamb to try to spark this sagging team. It wouldn’t even be a hard sell to Judge, since this has always felt like a bit of an arranged marriage. Mara wanted Garrett as the Giants offensive coordinator even before he hired Judge as the head coach.

But what good would a change do now? The offense wasn’t the problem in their heart-breaking loss in Washington in Week 2. It wasn’t even the biggest problem on Sunday in their loss to the Falcons. Firing Garrett won’t make the drive-crushing penalties stop. It won’t make Evan Engram’s hands more reliable. It won’t stop the defense from collapsing late in the game. It won’t make Saquon Barkley look like he did as a rookie. And it won’t suddenly bring Sterling Shepard and Darius Slayton back.

The Giants, like it or not, have way bigger problems than Garrett. Firing him this early in the season won’t fix any of those.

Besides, not that anyone cares with the team heading towards oblivion, but the offense has actually improved -- although clearly the bar to clear was low. A year ago, with all their problems, they ranked 31^st in the NFL, averaging an anemic 17.5 points and less than 300 yards per game (299.6). Now they’re averaging 350 yards per game, although the points are still lagging at an average of 18.6. They even rank 18^th, right in the middle of the league.

Is it good enough? Far from it. And if it’s not any better by the end of the season the Giants should shake things up and find some kind of offensive whiz to make the most of their weapons and teach their players where the end zone is. But now? The best they can do at the moment is promote someone from within -- most likely senior offensive assistant Freddie Kitchens. But he’d just be calling plays from Garrett’s playbook. And how much different is that going to be when he’s part of the offensive game-planning already?

Fans still want blood, though. And Garrett is the latest to have a large target painted on his back by an unruly fanbase, coming in third in their race for a scapegoat behind GM Dave Gettleman and Mara. There’s a groundswell of fans screaming for his head, tired of looking at the Giants’ anemic offense and a scoreboard with hardly any points.

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