Heading into his second season as head coach of the New York Giants, Ben McAdoo had a chance to establish himself as the future of one of the NFL’s most storied franchises. He’d led the team to an 11-5 record and a short-lived playoff appearance the year before, after all.

Now 13 weeks into the regular season, he’s done. The Giants fired Ben McAdoo on Monday – the morning after the team lost 24-17 to the Oakland Raiders to drop to 2-10 on the season, ensuring that they’ll finish with six or fewer wins for the third time in four years. However the true death knell of his time with the Giants is likely his being scapegoated for the controversial benching of Eli Manning.

Giants co-owner John Mara admitted last week that he was interested in seeing what they had in backup QBs Geno Smith and Davis Webb, which resulted in the them presenting a “start and then let the other guys get some snaps” proposal to Manning, who understandably told them to go pound sand. As the head coach, McAdoo was the face of that unpopular decision.

Smith went on to have a decent passing performance, completing 21 of 34 passes for 212 yards and a touchdown – however he fumbled twice, turning the ball over on both occasions. In a seven-point loss, those kinds of a mistakes are hard to swallow. With the organization facing an irate fan base and a clear need to rebuild from the ground up, the firing of McAdoo was inevitable.

McAdoo was already a favorite target of the internet, his slicked back hair and 1980s sunglasses inspiring jokes all their own. He was also notoriously inept in terms of dealing with the locker room culture and his players on the whole. So when he became the first coaching casualty of the season, Twitter was armed and ready with not just jokes and memes but also just truly savage facts about his failures as a coach.