CHICAGO — The last time the New York Giants played a game in Chicago, Joe Judge all but ended his own coaching career. Brian Daboll’s head-coaching tenure could meet the same fate four years later in the same spot.

Sunday’s 24-20 loss to the Bears was the Giants’ third fourth-quarter collapse of the season. It’s the newest low point in a season that keeps sinking to new depths.

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Judge set in motion his firing with an epic 11-minute rant after a 29-3 loss to the Bears in Week 17 of the 2021 season. The Giants lost the final six games of that season, and Judge was fired after compiling a .303 winning percentage in his two seasons.

Daboll kept his postgame news conference answers typically brief on Sunday, but the product on the field was so much worse than even the Judge days. Daboll has a .185 winning percentage over the past two seasons.

The way Judge’s monologue was the tipping point of his tenure, the concussion suffered by rookie quarterback Jaxson Dart on Sunday could be the final straw for Daboll.

Dart represented Daboll’s last chance to save his job, and the coach has acted accordingly. That has mostly produced promising results, but there has been a caveat to Dart’s early success: He was taking too many hits.

Daboll was finally burned by playing with fire with Dart’s health. The quarterback left Sunday’s game with a concussion between the third and fourth quarters after Daboll said he alerted trainers that Dart, “just didn’t seem right.”

Daboll said he wasn’t sure when Dart got injured, but it certainly looked like it occurred when his head slammed into the ground on a fumble with five minutes left in the third quarter. Dart appeared to go limp briefly and then was slow to get up.