New York Giants co-owner John Mara took quite a bit of heat this week after announcing that he was retaining both general manager Joe Schoen and head coach Brian Daboll after a second consecutive miserable season.

Giants owner John Mara named the team’s “No. 1 issue” for the offseason after deciding to retain Joe Schoen and Brian Daboll.

Schoen and Daboll just concluded an historically bad 3-14 campaign in the Giants’ 100th season as a franchise. It was the most losses by a Giants team in the club’s 100 years.

New York Giants co-owner John Mara knows fans were rooting for a “tank” but he would have “fired everybody” had they actually tanked.

The Giants had the No. 1 pick in their grasp heading into Week 17 but then they beat the Colts, which dropped them out of the top spot, making it far more difficult to land quarterback Shedeur Sanders. There was no thought in Mara’s mind that his team should lose in order to retain that top pick.

The Giants are going to be terrible until they find a legit quarterback solution. Pretty much everyone can agree on that. So there are a couple problems with what co-owner John Mara did — and said — on Monday.

And Mara did not mince words when it comes to what his goals will be every gameday as long as he's alive and wields power. "If I had thought that we were tanking either one of those games, I would've fired everybody,

NY Giants co-owner John Mara talks Monday about previous meetings with GM Joe Schoen and coach Brian Daboll and discussions with co-owner Steve Tisch.

But as the season spiraled and Daniel Jones was replaced by Tommy DeVito, then Drew Lock, then DeVito, then Tim Boyle and then Lock again, the weight of Mara’s support started to fade extrinsically. At times,