The New York Giants and Dallas Cowboys faced off on Thanksgiving, the second divisional matchup of the day. Earlier in the day, the Detroit Lions took down the Chicago Bears in an NFC North clash, an exciting game to kick off the festivities.

A Giants fan from the day he was born, the losing eats at John Mara just as it eats at his fan base, and only reminds him of the soul-sapping wilderness years before GM George Young showed up and changed everything.

The bold move, and the right one for NY Giants, is to give this regime another shot at pulling the organization out of this tail spin with conviction.

The New York Giants (2-9) are hard to watch these days. From top to bottom, they seem like a rudderless franchise with no known direction. No one is happy right now and almost every decision the team makes seems to backfire on them in an almost comical fashion.

OK, we realize we probably need to be more specific here, because there are so many times in recent years when you could ask yourself, incredulously: “Why did John Mara do that ?”