The deed is done: Ben McAdoo is out as Giants coach. NFL Network was the first to report the news.

The Giants fired their embattled head coach Monday after a meeting with ownership at the team facility in East Rutherford, a day after a 24-17 loss to the Raiders in Oakland dropped the Giants to 2-10, and six days after the team unceremoniously benched quarterback Eli Manning after 210 straight starts in favor of Geno Smith.

Steve Spagnuolo is taking over as interim head coach, according to SNY's Ralph Vacchiano.

McAdoo wasn't the only person getting a pink slip Monday, with general manager Jerry Reese also being cut loose. NFL Network was the first to report the news of Reese's firing. Kevin Abrams takes over Reese's duties as general manager, according to multiple reports.

McAdoo's tenure ends with a 13-15 record. The Giants went 11-5 in his first year, making the postseason as a wild card team before falling to the Packers by 25 points in the opening round of the NFC playoffs, but they plummeted to the second-worst record in the league this year. McAdoo's dismissal comes after an ESPN report stated his firing could be imminent - a report Giants brass did little to dispute before making its decision.

The Giants' decision to fire McAdoo during the season is a seismic one. Before Monday, the Giants had not fired a coach in-season since they dismissed Bill Arnsparger after an 0-7 start in 1976. McAdoo is the first Giants coach since Roy Andrews in 1930 to be fired before completing his second season, and is the first coach since Ray Handley (1991-92) to fail to reach a third season with the club.

The move is even more historic considering co-owners John Mara and Steve Tisch released a Nov. 13 statement that suggested McAdoo would coach the entire season, although Mara backtracked a bit this past Wednesday when forced to address the decision to bench Manning with local reporters after tremendous fan outcry. During his press briefing, Mara seemed to suggest McAdoo bungled the handling of Manning's eventual benching, although McAdoo insisted the organization was on the same page.

The Giants will be moving on to their 18th full-time head coach in franchise history in 2018, and their third in four years. The team will be on the hook for the final two seasons of McAdoo's four-year contract.

McAdoo's second-year collapse was a stunning one. After finishing 11-5 and making the playoffs in his first season, the Giants entered this fall with Super Bowl aspirations. The campaign quickly went off the rails thanks to an 0-5 start, two prominent player suspensions and an ESPN report citing anonymous players who blasted McAdoo and said he lost the locker room, although other players publicly defended the coach.

While the Giants lost 10 times this fall, lopsided defeats at the hands of the Rams and 49ers in Weeks 9 and 10 were particularly damaging. In addition to the losing, McAdoo was often criticized for his adversarial approach in working to the local media and accused of lacking sufficient communication and connection with his players. The decision to bench Manning may prove to have been the bridge too far after Sunday's loss catalyzed his dismissal.

The Giants hired McAdoo in January of 2016 after he served two seasons as offensive coordinator under Tom Coughlin. The team had previously brought him aboard in 2014 to fix an offense Mara infamously declared "broken."

McAdoo won the job over runner-up Mike Smith, the former Falcons head coach who has been the Buccaneers' defensive coordinator the last two years. Smith is a potential top candidate to watch now.

McAdoo had an immediate impact as the Giants' coordinator. They boasted the NFL's 10th- and eighth-ranked offense, respectively, in 2014 and '15, and quarterback Eli Manning turned in two of the best seasons of his career. The Giants' offense regressed in 2016, though, once McAdoo took over as head coach.

The Giants had the NFL's 25th-ranked unit last year, but rode second-ranked scoring defense to the playoffs. The offense was 29th-ranked entering the Raiders game after a rash of injuries to key players, including wideout Odell Beckham Jr.'s season-ending broken ankle in Week 5, poor offensive line play and other issues.

McAdoo called plays for the entirety of his first three seasons with the Giants, then gave them up to offensive coordinator Mike Sullivan five games into the 2017 season. The Giants beat the Broncos in Week 6 for their first win of the season in Sullivan's initial game as play caller. They then upset the Chiefs at home in a Week 11 overtime triumph.

Prior to joining the Giants, McAdoo, a Homer City, Pennsylvania, native, spent eight seasons as an assistant coach with the Packers. He was the team's tight ends coach for six years, and its quarterbacks coach for his final two seasons in Green Bay.

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