From the moment they traded Odell Beckham Jr. to the Browns, the second-year regime of the New York Football Giants has time and time again extolled the virtues of TEAM.
“I feel like we’re a better football team right now,” Pat Shurmur said, “and this is a team sport.”
Shurmur and GM Dave Gettleman will either be proven right or delusional, and there is no better time to be optimistic and/or defiant than now, when you haven’t lost a single regular-season game in the days before Sunday’s opener on the road against the hated Cowboys.
Shurmur doesn’t mention Beckham, the superstar headache that Gettleman didn’t sign to trade, but everyone recognizes that when he and Gettleman trumpet the culture of the 2019 locker room, they came to the conclusion that Beckham was part of the problem rather than part of the solution.