First, it’s important to note that despite all the doom and gloom, the Giants can still change the narrative just like that. They are still 7-5-1, still in a wild-card playoff spot as of now, and as pessimistic as the mood may have been following Sunday’s 48-22 beatdown at the hands of the Eagles, you would be hard-pressed to find a single fan of this team who wouldn’t have signed up to be in this spot four months ago.

All that is true. And yet, we still can acknowledge reality: that the Giants haven’t won in a month, that this shows all the signs of careening toward a collapse and it is eminently possible that they will not win another game this season. Right now, this looks more like the team fans expected to see in August than the one they got in September.

Maybe that was to be expected at some point, after a series of tight victories catapulted the Giants into the playoff picture. It was always a little hard to make the case that the Giants were legit once you looked past their record. And if things keep trending this way, it will at least send the message to management that they can’t expect all their problems to be ameliorated by one good coaching hire.

Arguably more interesting than what ultimately happens over the next four games — because whether they make it or not, it would be stunning to see the Giants get past the first round of the playoffs — will be how the front office reacts to it.