Pat Shurmur is on the clock.
Too soon?
Not in today’s NFL.
As of the end of business on Black Monday, eight head coaches had been fired. A quarter of the teams in the NFL are seeking new head coaches.
In Arizona, Steve Wilks got one year before being canned.
In Denver, Vance Joseph got two.
In Miami and Tampa Bay, Adam Case and Dirk Koetter got three, respectively.
Shurmur’s predecessor, Ben McAdoo, got two years — and that included a playoff appearance in his first year.
Shurmur’s Giants finished 5-11 in his first year and, following Sunday’s season-finale 36-35 home loss to the Cowboys as well as on Monday, there was a lot of spin-cycle coachspeak about “progress made’’ and successful “leadership and team building’’ coming from the Giants head coach.