Black Monday was taking its toll on the NFL on Monday, including 30 miles away in Florham Park, but there was Pat Shurmur, dressed like a middle-aged accountant, still on the job and soberly talking about 2019 and beyond.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that. The Giants’ coach deserves more than one season to show what he has got, even after a year in which he finished 5-11 – thereby matching his career high in three years as an NFL head coach.
Call his grade so far incomplete.
The good news is that Shurmur, 53, has been every bit the “adult” that general manager Dave Gettleman famously dubbed him in explaining why he was the right man to clean up after a chaotic season under Ben McAdoo.