If you could change one decision the New York Giants have made

[Gmo11]

Who would have been the QB when Eli retired?

This isn't even hindsight as I said this at the time...but if they had simply let Eli have a goodbye season that he rightfully deserved, they'd have been terrible but the fans would have gotten a chance to cheer on Eli one last time.  He wanted it.  They wanted it.  And suffering through a losing season would have been made more palatable since we got to say goodbye to Eli the right way. 

That also would have positioned them perfectly to take one of Herbert/Burrow/Tua the following year because they would have been in the top 5 almost certainly as Eli was pretty much done by that point.  And then they'd have had their next franchise QB without missing really much of anything.

It was all RIGHT there in front of them.  And Gettleman screwed it all up with one idiotic decision after another after another until this mess became all encompassing.  That's why hiring him is the biggest mistake the franchise made.  This debacle, which continued to derail the team even up until this season, started with hiring that guy to run the team. 

[spiderblue43]

Hiring DG..for sure..and building that sardine can stadium, too. Jones' contract..coaching misfires..etc..etc.

  

[LennG]

 Many of the 'mistakes' mentioned here go directly to Gettleman, so hiring him was probably our biggest mistake. No Gettleman, then no Daniel Jones, Brakely, no Toney and the list goes on.

But besides that, not listening to Macadon't and not drafting Patrick Mahones. If they had listened, he might still be the coach of this team.

[Giant Jim]

Ownership abandoning the hands off approach they way they did when they allowed George Young and Ernie Accorsi to run the team.