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Math wasn’t my strongest subject in school, so someone is going to have to explain to me how this equation is going to work out:Joe Schoen minus Brian Daboll equals winning. I don’t buy the suggestion that Schoen assembled a talented group and Daboll coached it into the ground. Like any GM, Schoen has had hits and misses in the draft, and it looks as if he has probably hit on Jaxson Dart and Cam Skattebo.His trade for Brian Burns is looking good, as the linebacker has rolled up 19.5 sacks in a season-and-a-half.

Malik Nabers and Abdul Carter were upgrades to the overall talent of the roster, but it’s hard to overcome back-to-back flops such as Evan Neal and Deonte Banks.I’m not sure how Schoen survived the “Hard Knocks” episode in which he BS’d John Mara about the ongoing Saquon Barkley situation when he knew Barkley would be a goner, yessing the co-owner after he said he’d have a hard time sleeping at night if Barkley were to end up on the Eagles.Schoen’s team and Daboll’s team were the same team, and it was 20-40-1 in their combined tenures through Monday morning.That record included 11-33 since the beginning of the 2023 season. Perhaps the endgame isn’t to keep Schoen.

Remember, last year, Jets GM Joe Douglas survived the in-season Robert Saleh firing and was shown the door later.Our Paul Schwartz reported that Mara and co-owner Steve Tisch fired Daboll and told Schoen about it.

Mara and Tisch will be the ones to select the new coach.Anyone worth hiring will want to pick his GM or be part of a new tandem, not work under a powerless Schoen.

So this might still be a work in progress.The other big change for Sunday’s game against the Packers is that Jameis Winston will be starting for the first time with the Giants.The move by interim coach Mike Kafka was the right one.

It’s incredible that the washed-out Russell Wilson and not Winston served as the backup to Dart.Was that solely a Daboll decision, or did he have front-office help ...