MONDAY NIGHT PREVIEW

At Levi’s Stadium, Santa Clara, 5:30 p.m., TSN

Never mind that New Orleans has won as many games since Oct. 28 — three — as the New York Giants and San Francisco 49ers together have won all season.

The fact that this game is on Monday

Night Football isn’t the only thing special about this mid-season matchup of disappointing teams.

How about the fact that if he has another clunker game, this could wind up as quarterback Eli Manning’s last start in the Big Apple — or at least one of his last starts.

This is the 37-year-old Manning’s 15th season of starting for the Giants. Since being promoted to No. 1 during his 2004 rookie season, the only start he has missed came last season, by coach’s decision.

That the Giants find themselves 1-7 through eight games for the second straight season hasn’t done much for Manning’s job security. Neither has his propensity this year for bailing out of pass plays early, to dump off to a back.

Manning was asked the other day if he senses more urgency surrounding this game. As in, win or else.

“For sure. We got to get some wins,” he said. “We got to get going, and everybody wants it. The team needs it, for the morale and for just the hard work and everything we put in.”

The 2-7 49ers, meantime, hope to win for the second time in as many starts with out-of-nowhere, undrafted, secondseason QB Nick Mullens (right) at the helm. He only achieved the highest passer rating (151.9) by any NFL player in his first game since the 1970 merger, in San Francisco’s 34-3 crushing of the Raiders a couple of Thursdays ago.