It is the Jets, of course, who offer the cautionary tale of ownership miscalculation that can foster dysfunction and debilitate a franchise.
As another franchise-rattling decision looms for the John Mara-Steve Tisch Giants on the respective or collective fates of Pat Shurmur and Dave Gettleman, they will have to weigh the benefits of cleaning house or not cleaning house.
The smart money has Shurmur cleaning out his office on Black Monday, but scuttlebutt persists that 5-11 and 4-11 could sweep Gettleman out as well.
Every organization operates differently, of course, and the Giants under the Mara watch have long kept the football decision-making in the hands of general managers they trust implicitly and prefer keeping on the job through thick and thin.