If the Mona Lisa were moved from the Louvre to a display case at the Giants\u2019 practice facility, there probably would be a leak running down the wall and the paint on that iconic smile captured by Leonardo da Vinci would smear into a sad expression of gloom.<\/p>\n
A treasured piece of artwork the Giants are not.<\/p>\n
It is so bad that fans are torn between wanting their team to win just to blunt the monotony and drudgery of losing and wanting their team to lose to secure the No. 1 pick in the draft.<\/p>\n
That No. 1 pick<\/a> figures to command a king\u2019s ransom from any team that wants to trade up in hopes of selecting Indiana quarterback Fernando Mendoza, this year\u2019s Great Quarterback Hope after two decent seasons at Cal and one Heisman Trophy-winning campaign at Indiana<\/a>. The Giants are set at quarterback with Jaxson Dart and thus could wheel and deal<\/a> with abandon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If the Mona Lisa were moved from the Louvre to a display case at the Giants\u2019 practice facility,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":607404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[1483,7,519,7194,13,1917,56,2321,2469,6,7195,9,3248],"class_list":{"0":"post-607403","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-giants","8":"tag-brian-burns","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-giants","11":"tag-inside-the-giants","12":"tag-jaxson-dart","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-giants","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkgiants","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-post-sports-newsletters","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-sports-plus"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115734813395948981","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=607403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/607404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}