In recent weeks, New York Giants head coach Pat Shurmur sounded like a man resigned to his fate, so when the news came down on Black Monday, he probably wasn’t very surprised.

But the Giants have now made it official: Shurmur is out in East Rutherford.

Giants are firing HC Pat Shurmur, per source.

Another HC search for the Giants, their third in five years.

— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) December 30, 2019

Hired to replace Ben McAdoo, Giants co-owners John Mara and Steve Tisch were initially pleased with the addition of Shurmur, noting the team needed an “adult” to be in charge.

That adult led the Giants to back-to-back losing seasons, compiling an overall record of 9-23, which dropped his career record to 19-46 — one of the worst head coaching records in NFL history.

To Shurmur’s credit, his players never quit on him or each other in the same way they had under McAdoo, but in the end, that wasn’t enough to save his job or set the franchise back on the right track.

With Shurmur now out, the Giants will be in search of their fifth new head coach since 2015 (if you include Steve Spagnuolo), which is just a remarkable for a team previously known for patience and consistency.

Some consistency will remain however, as general manager Dave Gettleman appears to have been spared the wrath of team ownership and will remain in his post — at least for now. He is scheduled to speak on Tuesday.

But make no mistake about it… If the Giants continue to lose, the fan revolt will be substantial and the calls for Mara and Tisch to sell will get very loud very quickly.

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The New York Giants’ 50-50 ownershipsplit  between the Mara and Tisch families has worked swimmingly for 30 years. The Giants have been one of the model franchises in the NFL over that period, maintaining a level of excellence and class both on and off the field.

But the last seven seasons have not gone as planned. The club has faltered in every phase possible. They failed to maintain the solid base that general manager Jerry Reese inherited from his predecessor, Ernie Accorsi, and have quite simply just lost their way. The results are evident by their lack of success on the playing field.

2019 will mark the Giants’ sixth losing season in seven years, which in team history can only be compared to the 1970s and early 80s, a period known as “The Wilderness Years.”

That near-decade of futility caused the NFL to actually step in a mediate between the team’s two owners (Wellington Mara an his cousin, Tim) and find a solution to help the Giants find their way out of the woods.

George Young was brought in to end the madness and he turned the Giants into champions. His model has been in place for forty years already and that model has not aged well. It’s the for the Giants to upgrade and it will take both John Mara and Steve Tisch to agree on that that new model should be.

George Willis of the New York Post wrote that Tisch will likely push for a blowup while Mara will urge patience. They are only two years into the Dave Gettleman-Pat Shurmur era and could be on the verge of turning the corner:

The Tisch and Mara families could find themselves at odds over whether to fire head coach Pat Shurmur and general manager Dave Gettleman. Two sources familiar with the Giants’ thinking told The Post Tisch has seen enough and wants a fresh start with a new GM and head coach, while John Mara wants to wait until the outcome of Sunday’s season finale against the Eagles at MetLife Stadium before making a decision.

The Giants’ ownership and front office personnel likely will meet on Monday to decide the fate of Shurmur and Gettleman, who would match last year’s 5-11 record by beating the Eagles. A win would be the Giants third straight to end the season, helping Shurmur’s case to stay.

“It will be interesting to see if Steve gets his way,” a source told The Post. “He wants a change. He feels for the fans.”

Gettleman has displayed an erratic style since taking over the team two years ago. He’s changed a lot of the faces but not the results. Shumur has consistently been out-coached but to his credit, has not lost the locker room.

Should the Giants give them both another year, and there is no progress, it will be a wasted year. If they blow things up and the losing continues, that could be worse.

Giant fans are in favor of a blowup and many hope Tisch wins out here. The NFL has changed since the Giants last won the Super Bowl eight years ago.

They were once the standard and they have failed to keep up. It’s time for a serious reboot.

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The New York Giants are not even two years removed from hiring general manager Dave Gettleman and head coach Pat Shurmur to replace Jerry Reese and Ben McAdoo, who were terminated mid-way through the 2017 season, but already co-owner Steve Tisch wants a reset.

Mired in a third consecutive losing season and the second under Shurmur, Tisch has reached his breaking point and will push for a “major overhaul” this offseason, reports Jordan Raanan of ESPN.

For the New York Giants, the question is whether coach Pat Shurmur and/or general manager Dave Gettleman will be among those losing their jobs the day after the regular season concludes. The tea leaves suggest Shurmur is unlikely to survive barring a huge finish, Gettleman is in trouble and co-owner Steve Tisch is in favor of a major overhaul.

Tisch and John Mara have declined multiple opportunities over the past month to offer votes of confidence for Shurmur and Gettleman. That’s not a great sign. It leaves open the possibility of significant changes to the organization for the second time in three years.

Although Tisch and Mara have largely avoided the media this season, the former did suggest that a difficult conversation would be had on Black Monday.

“It’s been a very frustrating season. At the end of the season John Mara and I are gonna get together and discuss the future. As partners we have to be very honest with each other about where we see this team going into the 2020 season,” Tisch told Bruce Beck in early December.

The questions become: How many times are the Giants going to blow things up and rebuild if they don’t work after a year and a half? How much longer can the cycle of change continue and is the lack of patience really the right answer?

There is an understandable level of frustration with the current Giants product, but as we alluded to in our recent article, “7 reasons Giants should keep Pat Shurmur,” constant winds of change very rarely, if ever yield any long-lasting or consistent results.

The Giants have had two general managers, four head coaches, three offensive coordinators, three defensive coordinators, two different systems and a complete roster turnover since 2015 and the results have all remained largely the same. Doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting different results is literally the definition of insanity.

Something very clearly needs to be done, but is another “major overhaul” really guaranteed to bring about different results? It certainly hasn’t so far, and how many more times can the Giants do this before they finally rediscover some patience and allow a three-year plan to play itself out?

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