It might seem an odd choice of word to focus on for a team that is 1-7, is coming off one of the most lopsided losses in franchise history and has gone through one of its most trying weeks in decades. But coach Ben McAdoo wants his players to think about it anyway.
The word is “legacy.”
Right now, the 2017 Giants have a poor one. They already are going to go down in history as one of the most disappointing squads in team history, if not New York sports. They have plummeted from seemingly legitimate Super Bowl aspirations to squalid dysfunction in the course of two short months.