But as the season spiraled and Daniel Jones was replaced by Tommy DeVito, then Drew Lock, then DeVito, then Tim Boyle and then Lock again, the weight of Mara’s support started to fade extrinsically. At times, starting over made sense. At other points, the scenario of Schoen staying and Daboll going emerged as a possibility, too.

Schoen and Daboll just concluded an historically bad 3-14 campaign in the Giants’ 100th season as a franchise. It was the most losses by a Giants team in the club’s 100 years.