It’s difficult to imagine any head coach can muster up excuses after losing eight consecutive games, one of which coming against a team that just lost to the winless Cincinnati Bengals. New York Giants head coach Pat Shurmur has used every excuse in the book heading into week 14 at 2-10.
After Sunday’s blowout loss in the snow to the Green Bay Packers, Shurmur resorted to his go-to post-loss comments.
“This is a historically young team that’s going out there and competing against some really good football teams,” he said. “We’ve got to do what we have to do to win games and I understand that.