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 two-time Super Bowl-winning quarterback thinks it’s a smart move by Giants ownership to stay the course with the current regime.

When the chips were down in 2016 and his job was on the line, then-New York Giants general manager Jerry Reese went into self-preservation mode. In a Hail Mary effort, he spent $106.3 million in guaranteed money,