PHILADELPHIA — The final act of the Giants’ 100th season had the look and feel of a preseason game. Or, to put it less kindly, a flat-out tank job. Going for it on fourth-and-7 near midfield on the first drive? Running a draw on third-and-9 on the next drive? And what was with the odd substitution patterns and giving snaps to backups like offensive lineman Josh Ezeudu, linebacker Dyontae Johnson and cornerback Divaad Wilson? If Brian Daboll needed to win Sunday’s game at Lincoln Financial Field in order to keep his job, he certainly wasn’t coaching like it as the Giants fell to the Eagles, 20-13. “We need to just keep adding more guys who can come in here with a mindset that you don’t take crap from no one. You’re just gonna scratch and claw for every single yard you get and be mature about it,” said offensive lineman Jermaine Eluemunor, who figures to be back next season after signing a two-year contract last March. “That’s not saying no one else is mature here. I just think we need help obviously. That’s why we’re 3-14, you know what I mean? When you lose to backups. It just means too much to me to go out there — I sacrifice way too much — to go out there and just lose games like that.” Now the waiting game begins on general manager Joe Schoen and Daboll, whose on-field product showed nothing this season to warrant getting a fourth year in charge. But will owners John Mara and Steve Tisch choose to exercise patience? The optics of this disastrous centennial campaign won’t make it easy. The Giants finished with 14 losses — the most in franchise history — and went winless in NFC East games for the first time ever. They have now lost 12 straight games in Philadelphia since 2013, and Schoen/Daboll’s regime is 1-12 against the Eagles and Cowboys by a combined score of 386-203. But beyond the historic milestones, how can ownership possibly paint a picture that there was “significant improvement” this season, as Mara stated was his desire back in August? Or is he simply so desperate for franchise stability that he’s looking for any excuse to avoid firing a coach for the fourth time in eight years? Whatever the case, you had to get the feeling while watching the end of the season that Daboll received reassurance his job was safe, and that managing Sunday’s game with the Giants’ draft spot in mind was more important than trying to win. Daboll suggested that wasn’t the case as he reiterated after the game that he still needed to talk with Mara and Tisch about the future. “We’re 3-14, but I believe in the people, believe in our process, and again, we’ll have those conversations,” Daboll said. “We’ll have normal conversations like we normally do. I’ve got a good relationship with the Mara family, the Tisch family, Joe, so we’ll go through that process.” Sunday’s gameplan shouldn’t detract from just how bad the Giants’ on-field product was this season. The Eagles rested 11 starters — the Giants had only seven of their early-season starters out due to injury — and still engineered a victory with a third-string quarterback. Yes, Tanner McKee, a sixth-round pick in 2023 who had only once appeared in an NFL regular-season game, carved up the Giants’ defense to the tune of 269 passing yards and two touchdowns. So what would have the Eagles’ A team have done against the Giants? The selling points for staying the course with Schoen and Daboll would obviously include the notion that having a top-three pick will finally give them the chance to draft their own quarterback, and how a good quarterback can change everything. Just look at how the Giants scored 40 points in a game last Sunday for the first time in nine years when Drew Lock passed for 309 yards and four touchdowns? The problem is that one fluky game can’t erase three years of shoddy quarterback work from both Daboll’s coaching and Schoen’s roster management. From re-signing Daniel Jones to finding and developing no backups who could provide any level of competency on a consistent basis, it’s hard to argue that Daboll and Schoen deserve a clean slate. On a more positive note, Daboll’s shortcomings haven’t led to a locker-room revolt like what infamously happened more than seven years ago with Ben McAdoo. Even if curious coaching decisions make you suspect a tank job, these players kept sacrificing their bodies every week under dire circumstances. Malik Nabers, for instance, had a 45-yard touchdown catch in the fourth quarter to cap a sensational rookie season with 109 catches (Giants and NFL rookie wide receiver record), 1,204 yards and seven touchdowns. “To end the year off right, my rookie season off right, end it off strong, carry it on to the next year,” Nabers said. “It hits hard (not going to the playoffs. A lot of guys are going out and playing — you don’t, you’ve got to go home. So it hits hard, but that’s football, that’s the NFL.” Wins and losses are the bottom line, though, and we’ll learn soon if the Giants will turn the page on this chapter with new leadership, or the old guard fighting to live another day. Eluemunor said it wasn’t his choice as to whether Daboll stayed on as the coach, expressing that he signed with the Giants because of the franchise’s history and still loves playing for the blue and white. “I never want to be a part of anything like that again, or a season like this again. I want to win,” Eluemunor said. “In order for us to be what this team deserves to be, we obviously have to bring in some more pieces that can help this team develop and turn into an actual competitor in the NFC.”