There can be no conflict of thought when it comes to winning and losing. But it might be overselling to suggest there was none within the Giants front office when the final seconds ticked off and, lo and behold, there was a victory, for the first time in 85 days.

No deep regret that this momentary departure from sad Sundays messed with the Holy Grail quest to find and select the next franchise quarterback in the 2025 NFL Draft. No deep pangs of what Tom Coughlin used to call “remorse for opportunity lost’’ that the luxury of sitting back and taking Shedeur Sanders or Cam Ward with the No. 1 pick was now gone, or at least severely compromised.

Maybe, though, just a bit of “Really? Now we win to push the prize out of our reach?’’

There was relief and yes, a modicum of joy when Giants 45 (forty-five points!), Colts 33 was in the books. It is the job of a front office to ᴀssemble a roster capable of winning and finding solutions. When the season ends, the front office is tasked with taking all the scouting evaluations and college visits and formulating a plan of attack. There is no in-season manipulation of the draft order.