Pat Shurmur did not create this mess of Giants, but he must fix it

The sins of former coaches are visited on Pat Shurmur, and he can not do anything about it.

This is the fifth time in six years that the Giants started 0-2. Only 2018 can be pinned on Shurmur. Last year, the 0-2 start turned into 0-5, and Shurmur said he "was trying to get away from it" when asked if he was worried about a recovery. in the minds of his team. He did not inherit the loan, but it does seem that Shurmur already owes money that he has never spent.

The difficulties of the offensive line are new to Shurmur but they are painfully familiar to those inside the building and paying customers. There is evidence to support the theory that Eli Manning is in decline, but all that Shurmur has in his Eli file are the last two games of unhealthy production.

There is a break-in period for the new head coaches, less for those who do their second or third round in the big chair. There was more grace period for Jim Fassel than for Dan Reeves. There was more grace period for Ben McAdoo than for Tom Coughlin.

For the first time in 39 years, the Giants have entered a season with a new head coach and general manager, a household that is almost always patient as new programs and philosophies are put in place.

Yet Shurmur and Dave Gettleman have no vision, in the long run. That would be the model if the Giants chose a quarter with the number 2 pick in the project, a franchise move that would have been accompanied by a Manning exchange – do you think you saw Sam Darnold or Josh Allen a year or two going to fly?

The new regime never tweeted intentions to "win now", but the message became clearer with every move – respecting and promising loyalty to a quarter-century-old, signing Nate Solder, 30, to a $ 62 million agreement. buy out Odell Beckham Jr. for $ 95 million, hiring a 67-year-old as chief executive officer.

The troubling log problems did not come to the door with Shurmur. Heck, McAdoo has somehow won 11 games in 2016 with a foul that averaged only 19.3 points. Production dropped to 15.3 points in 2017 and no deodorant was able to clean up this stink. The Shurmur Giants score an average of 14 points per game. Only Cardinals and Bills have fewer points. This is a small sample size that is unjustly integrated into the recent stack. That's the frustration when a team spends 34 consecutive games without reaching 30 points – the longest winning streak since the Giants played 57 consecutive games without scoring 30 points from 1975 to 1979.

Several minutes after the start of a Monday conference call, filled with questions about lack of points and lack of protection, Shurmur said, "I think I have answered the same question over and over. but for many who agonize with this team, the lines are blurry as to where McAdoo ended and Shurmur started when Manning's pocket collapsed, as the terminal area grows from farther and farther and the mounts are lost.

Shurmur said his offensive line was prepared for all the movement obtained by the Cowboys defense. "They've been doing it for years, that's their style," said Shurmur. If so, how do you explain what was sometimes inconceivable breakdowns, as if the offensive linemen had never seen defenders perform line games, tricks and stunts? Admittedly, this offensive line of five men is newly assembled this year, but most of these things are rudimentary.

"I do not think we have been confronted with anything we have ever seen," Shurmur said. If that was the case, it was the lack of talent, rather than the confusion, that was at the root of the problem, a much more alarming development.

Moments like this still ring the outcry of "making changes," as if teams regularly maintain trained offensive linemen sitting on the bench.

"I think what's important is to stay on course, to get the players to play better and to try to do more games to do what is necessary to win the game," Shurmur said. .

However, a small blow was made Tuesday while the back Elijhaa Penny signed the team of Cardinals.

The guy does not try to win you with his words. Shurmur is a 52 year old man who knows how to assemble and execute an offense. Beckham and Saquon Barkley were supposed to do it all differently now, not later. This is a new team with a new coach and some of the same old problems.