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Tracing the roots of this Giants nightmare to one fateful day

There is no one day we can mark on the calendar to unequivocally signify: This is where it all went bad. No exact instant we can stamp as the beginning of the demise of the Giants’ offense.

If we want to specify a time and place, a precise moment to start the clock on the tick, tick, tick of a team in descent, let us go back to the night of April 30, 2015.

The site: the Auditorium Theater in Chicago. The event: the first round of the draft.

The Giants, with the No. 9-overall selection, took Ereck Flowers, a big, young and raw left tackle from Miami.