Friday morning the New York Giants officially introduced Pat Shurmur as their new head coach.
Shurmur was open an engaging, attempting to answer questions as freely as he could, at least when those answers didn’t involve “behind the scenes” Giants’ business.
But what immediately jumped out to me was that Shurmur wasn’t about himself and deflected praise to those who have been around him. Instead of speaking about what made him a great candidate for the job, he spoke about his wife (a Poughkeepsie native) as the source of his strength.
He next mentioned the staff that he and the Giants’ brass were working to assemble as he spoke at the podium.