A 1-7 record has unsealed storylines that have threatened to tarnish this New York Giants campaign since the offseason. Toothless performances have gradually correlated with an epiphany that a doomed win-now inkling should have instead been an outright rebuild.
Ill-guided recruitment in previous years ensured Big Blue would never compete this season. To think otherwise would have been a serious underestimation of the adversity general manager Dave Gettleman and head coach Pat Shurmur shouldered upon arriving in East Rutherford.
Nonetheless, it’s for this arduous transition period that a disheartening second-half of the season can also serve as a thought-provoking one.