Brian Daboll still has one very big advantage when it comes to keeping his job beyond this season. Every week that Jaxson Dart plays and improves and is able to walk off the field — as he did on Sunday against the 49ers despite yet another dreadful and embarrassing loss — is a new reinforcement to the argument for a fifth year of Daboll’s tenure with the Giants.

That’s how important finding and developing a young quarterback is in this league. Get that part right and the rest is supposed to be easy. It overarches almost everything else that a football franchise has to consider.

But it’s the “almost everything else” that ultimately could doom Daboll.

Right now he has nothing he can point to beyond Dart as an example of something going well, an area in which progress is being made, or

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