The first half of Pat Shurmur’s first season as Giants head coach could not have gone worse. Yet it was at that dire time general manager Dave Gettleman was most impressed with the work of the guy he hired.
“We were 1-7 and we had two practices during the bye week that, it just was kind of amazing,’’ Gettleman said Wednesday in his first public comments since training camp. “Just the way he kept them, the way Pat and the coaches kept everybody on task, going in the right direction, understanding that, to a certain degree, we were the little engine that could and kept pushing that thing up the hill.