Skip to main content

Pressure Mounts on Shurmur as Giants Lose Again

BEARS 19 - GIANTS 14

It isn't so much about how the Giants lost to the Chicago Bears, Sunday, because the script has been the same. Daniel Jones fumbles the ball away; the Giants offense is anemic; the opposing quarterback (today it was Mitchell Trubisky) figures out how to throw a football again, and the Giants waste all of their time outs with more than three minutes to go in the game - costing themselves any shot of winning.

Yep, same old, same old for the Giants in a 19-14 loss, Big Blue's seventh straight in fact as they now stand at 2-9, tied for last place in the NFC East. Congratulations. Congratulations to David Gettleman who put this mess together. Congratulations to Pat Shurmur who has coached this team in the ground week-in and week-out.

With games against the Packers and Eagles starring them in the face the next two weeks, it is reasonable to think the Giants will be 2-11 before Chanukah. At least they have the Dolphins and Redskins still on the schedule. One would figure a win has to come out of one of those two games, right?!

Now the rumors are really starting to heat up on Shurmur, with the latest speculation that if he is indeed fired at the end of the year the Giants could pursue .... wait for it ... Jason Garrett. Wait, what? Yes, Jason Garrett.

Not Mike McCarthy. Not Lincoln Reilly, or Mike Tomlin. But Jason Garrett? And you thought the Jets hiring Adam Gase was a bad joke.

Garrett, the Dallas Cowboys head coach is - as per usual - on the proverbial hot seat as the Boys are mired in mediocrity. At 6-5, there is no guarantee the Cowboys will even make the playoffs this year. And even if they do, getting past the second round of the playoffs is a must for Garrett to keep his job.

NFL insider Ian Rapoport reported this morning that if the Cowboys were to fire Garrett at the end of the season, the Giants would be keenly interested.

"My understanding is the Giants have emerged as a real, legitimate potential landing spot for Garrett," Rapport said on NFL GameDay morning.

Of course, the Giants have to fire Shurmur first, and the Cowboys have to fire Garrett for this to even be considered.

Just the idea the Giants would rather have a mediocre head coach like Jason Garrett lead this team does not speak well about the people in charge of the organization right now. In fact it makes one wonder how this team won two Super Bowls with Tom Coughlin as its head coach with such instability in the front office.

Since Coughlin was fired at the end of the 2015 season, the Giants have gone from Ben McAdoo to Pat Shurmur. Can you imagine Garrett joining that list of futility?  Suddenly the Mara's are making the Johnson brothers look like competent owners.

Just think Giants fans, it could only get worse from here...

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Jets, Dolphins and Patriots Playoff Breakdown

Here are the formuli that could get the Jets into and out of the playoff party this season: 1) If the Jets win against Seattle and Miami, they win the AFC East based on a better conference record (8-4) than the New England Patriots, even if New England wins out as well. 2) If the Patriots win out and the Dolphins win out and finish at 11-5, the Jets would be 10-6, or 9-7, and probably out of the playoffs. Both New England and Miami would make the playoffs, with the Dolphins as a divison winner and the Patriots as a wild card. The Patriots make the postseason if Baltimore loses one of its final two games. 3) If the Patriots win out and the Dolphins and Jets split, then the Patriots win the AFC East. The Jets will have to hope that they beat Miami to win that tie-breaker and, further, hope that they have a better conference record than the Baltimore Ravens in order to clinch the sixth seed. 4) If the Patriots and Ravens win out and the Dolphins and Jets split their final two games, then ...
8 comments
Read more

Francisco Lindor Remains Red Hot as Mets Top Phillies

 Francisco Lindor remains the hottest player in Queens right now.  The Mets shortstop blasted two more home runs, including a three-run blast in the bottom of the eighth inning, Monday night to help propel the Mets to a 5-4 win over Philadelphia.   Lindor who typically struggles in the month of April is putting together a heck of a month. Monday's two hit effort was the 10th game in the last 11 where Lindor has recorded a hit. In fact in the month of April alone this year, Lindor was hitting at .311 coming into Monday's action.  On the year, Lindor is batting .284 with five homers and 13 RBI.  Lindor's efforts proved to be prophetic, as the Phillies Alec Bohm crushed a three-run bomb off Edwin Diaz in the top of the ninth to cut the Mets lead to a single run. Fortunately for New York, Diaz was able to shut the door with strikeouts of Trea Turner and Bryce Harper.  New York (16-7) has now won five in a row.  
Post a Comment
Read more

Is Aaron Glenn in Danger of Getting Fired?

 According to Pro Football Talk's Mike Florio there is a "chance"   that Jets head coach Aaron Glenn could be fired at seasons end.  While Florio doesn't site any sources, the rumor has caught fire the last two days. The question is would it make sense? Let's examine this for a second?  Why it Makes Sense:  Glenn has not been great in his first year as Head Coach of this team. The talent has taken a major step backwards, granted two of those talented players were traded away in Sauce Gardner to Indianapolis and Quinnen Williams to Dallas.  The decision he and GM Darren Mougey made to give Justin Fields a two year deal proved to be a horrible mistake, and Glenn stuck with Fields for far too long before pulling the plug following the Jets loss to the Patriots on a Thursday night in mid November.  Glenn gave now former Defensive Coordinator Steve Wilks too much power to run the defense, and the players couldn't stand Wilks. Reports indicated this week af...
Post a Comment
Read more