Could Brian Daboll’s Giants wind up having the worst season in franchise history?

It’s easy, at this point, to envision the Giants finishing 2-15, with 12 straight losses.
They’re 2-9, with six straight losses (during which they haven’t led at all). And they just got hammered 30-7 on Sunday at home by the Buccaneers.
While 2-15 surely would get coach Brian Daboll and general manager Joe Schoen fired, would it be the worst season in franchise history?
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No. But it would be awfully close.
In 1966, the Giants went 1-12-1. That’s their only season with fewer than two wins.
These are their four seasons with two wins: 2-8-2 in 1947, 2-10-2 in 1964, 2-11-1 in 1973, and 2-12 in 1974.
So if the Giants finished 2-15, that would obviously be worse than 2-12 — and also worse than any two-win season that included a tie.
Bottom line: It would be the second-worst season in franchise history, behind only 1-12-1 in 1966. The 2-15 Giants would have a .118 winning percentage, compared to .107 for the 1966 team.
The Giants currently have 10 seasons with three wins or fewer — but just one since 1983, when they went 3-12-1. In 2017, they finished 3-13 in their second and final year under coach Ben McAdoo, who got fired at 2-10, after going 11-5 and making the playoffs in 2016.
Co-owner John Mara said a month ago that he won’t fire Daboll or Schoen during this season. Mara said that when the Giants were 2-5. Nothing has gone right since, in four losses. So you have to wonder if Mara will change his stance if the Giants get destroyed in Dallas on Thanksgiving.
Mara is quite familiar with horrific starts like this. In 2017, the Giants opened 2-13 and then won their finale. In 2018, they opened 1-7 and finished 5-11. In 2019, they started 2-11 and wound up 4-12 (which got coach Pat Shurmur fired). And in 2020, they started 1-7 and rallied to finish 6-10.
But these Giants don’t seem like they have any sort of rally in them.
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Darryl Slater may be reached at [email protected].