It has come to this:

Just Lose, Baby.

After all the festive and nostalgic 100th anniversary celebrations, A Night With Legends such as Bill Parcells and Lawrence Taylor, the telling of the story of The Duke: The Giant Life of Wellington Mara … it ends at home in humiliation, one last public flogging of a once-proud franchise that has lost its way yet again.

It ends at home, but thanks to the cloudy forecast, without the prospect of another overhead plane designed to land on the runway to John Mara’s anguished heart. It ends in apathy, empty seats all over MetLife Stadium. It ends with a New Year on the horizon that cannot get here fast enough.