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The New York Giants find themselves in a very familiar position – misery.

Mike Sando of The Athletic recently did a piece measuring teams across the NFL and just how miserable of a situation they are in.

And if you survey Big Blue Nation, you can bet that they’re all in agreement.

Over their past 17 games, the Giants are a rancid 2-15 with a bottom-five offense and defense.

That’s kind of hard to do, no matter how bad you are.

On Sunday, the G-Men did something that you hardly see – cough up a turnover in five consecutive possessions against no other team than the New Orleans Saints.

Rookie quarterback Jaxson Dart, who was the golden boy amongst Giants fans accounted for three of them, with two of them being interceptions to Kool-Aid McKinstry and then an unforced fumble.

The honeymoon period wore off rather quickly.

Dart assuming the helm of starting quarterback was a pain point for Giants fans. They simply had enough of Russell Wilson, who New York signed to a one-year $21 million contract over the offseason, after just three starts.

You can’t blame them though. Apart from one game, Wilson looked horrendous.

But the problem growing with the Giants was that they put their rookie quarterback in a position where it was impossible for him to succeed.

In his first start, he looked the part, even though he only threw 20 passes. The second he got some room to throw more, that’s when it gave off panic vibes.

The Saints are terrible, and after beating the Chargers during Week 4 should’ve indicated that perhaps the Giants’ stock should’ve risen instead of declined.

But instead, they lose to a projected bottom-three team and all the good vibes from Dart’s first start are whittled away.

The ultimate deterrent? Head coach Brian Daboll. You don’t want to call for people’s jobs, but it’s becoming clearer and clearer that Daboll isn’t the right man for the job.

Which is why Sando labeled their problems as “Same coaches, same old stories.”

The way he visibly gets frustrated when things don’t go well for the team can’t exactly be a morale booster for his players.

Not only that, before wide receiver Malik Nabers went down with a torn ACL, he and Daboll got into a few spats on the sidelines, and it’s a relationship that has seemed frayed ever since Nabers entered the league last season.

To top it off, his relationship with former quarterback Daniel Jones resulted in him not only getting benched, but getting run out of town and becoming a success story in Indianapolis.

The problems in East Rutherford have hit both teams that reside in MetLife Stadium, but one team’s misery can be addressed rather easily.