This team is remarkably young

Some may want to dismiss this argument in favor in Shurmur, but the reality is that the Giants are one of the youngest teams in the NFL (based on snap counts vs. age).

Due to injury, inconsistency, large contract shedding and other factors, the Giants have been forced to play a seemingly countless number of rookies and sophomores, with the tally on the rise on a week-to-week basis.

In Week 3, the team benched veteran quarterback Eli Manning in favor of rookie quarterback Daniel Jones, which should have restarted the clock on both Shurmur and Gettleman.

Some of the decisions to go young have been made by Shurmur himself, while others were made for him. Either way, this team is a very young team — maybe not “historically young” — and that absolutely must be taken into account when evaluating Shurmur’s job.

So many of the team’s losses this season were due to inexperience, which will actually benefit the franchise at a later date. That’s a tough pill to swallow right now, but it’s the nature of development and evolution in the NFL.