The whole idea, the Big Blueprint from the very top of the franchise, was to win now with Eli Manning.
It was an organizational strategy steeped in romance and nostalgia and more than hope: shore up the offensive line, get your 37-year-old quarterback a generational running back and worry about securing your young franchise quarterback, your Next Eli Manning, sometime in the future.
The jury is still out, but after what we have witnessed these first two weeks, it reeks ominously of a colossal blunder.
If the Giants are proven to be a lose-now team, in baseball they would score it E Giants.