It is an interesting choice of words and, in the short time since Pat Shurmur’s updated résumé includes the line about him being the head coach of the Giants, it does seem as if he chooses his words carefully, and purposefully.
Monday, he welcomed in players for the start of the offseason workout program and in a morning meeting he stood up in front of his new team for the first time. He inherits the foundation of a roster that bottomed out in 2017, falling to 3-13 amid so much losing and dysfunction that the head coach, Ben McAdoo, and general manager, Jerry Reese, were fired with four games remaining.