John Mara stood in a dimly lit hallway between an equipment closet and the locker room, his arms folded across his chest and his eyes staring straight ahead, as he surveyed the wreckage.
All around him, as the clock approached midnight at MetLife Stadium, the Giants players were throwing around the same hollow cliches about the latest loss. The Eagles had embarrassed them in a 34-13 blowout that served as a three-hour confirmation that this is a bad football team again.
The quarterback? Bad. The offensive line? Bad. The defense? Bad.