INDIANAPOLIS — Look, we get it. As Pat Shurmur put it: “Right is right. You win or you lose and we didn’t win. That’s the reality. That’s the big-boy part of this.”
Which is another way of saying: Moral victories don’t count for spit.
That’s the rule in the NFL. Everyone gets paid. Everyone is a professional. There are no guarantee games, no designated homecoming opponents. You win or you lose. And the Giants didn’t win.
That’s the reality.
But you know something?
Maybe this time — maybe this one time — we can suspend that absolute theory.