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Giants’ Pat Shurmur knows he’s coaching for his job

New York Giants head coach Pat Shurmur is well aware that he’s coaching for his job, just as he has been since Day 1.

New York Giants head coach Pat Shurmur is firmly on the hot seat with a record of 2-10, having also failed to win any games in the months of October and November for the first time in franchise history.

Shurmur’s status with the team was further called into question when Giants co-owner Steve Tisch said he and team CEO, John Mara, will have a heart-to-heart talk after the season as it pertains to both Shurmur’s job and the job of general manager Dave Gettleman.

That was no skin of Shurmur’s back, however.

While meeting with reporters on Wednesday, Shurmur acknowledged that he’s enlightened to the fact that he’s coaching for his job, just as he has been since the day he was hired.

“I really have no reaction to that. I was made aware that he spoke [Monday]. I’m sure he’s disappointed with the results this season, just like I am and we are. I’m trying to get this team ready to play and win a game against Philly,” Shurmur said of Tisch’s comments.

“I feel like I’m coaching for my job every day. That’s the way we function. As players, you’re playing for your job, and you’re coaching for your job every day. We understand this is a results business, and the ultimate result is winning games. Along the way, doing the things necessary to win a game and then consistently win. That’s just the reality of it.”

Shurmur has never once shied away from the team’s failures or made excuses for the lack of wins, so whether you are a fan of his or not, there’s something to respect about that.

Ironically, Shurmur’s fate may now be tied directly to quarterback Eli Manning, whom he gave up on after just two weeks of the season.

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8 Possible candidates for the OC position if Eagles part ways with Mike Groh

James Urban among candidates who could replace Mike Groh as Eagles OC

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The Philadelphia Eagles have had a difficult season thus far but still, control their own destiny in the weak NFC East.

The format is simple for Philadelphia, win the next four straight — all divisional opponents — and host a Wild Card one month from now. Even with a playoff run, the Eagles will most certainly make changes to personnel and the coaching staff.

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On Monday, ESPN NFL reporter Chris Mortensen was a guest on SportsCenter and had this to say about the Eagles.

“Barring a run in the playoffs, I would say there’s going to be some significant changes on the Philadelphia staff.”

Mortensen was simply making a hypothesis, as there’s been no indication from inside the organization that any changes are coming.

Philadelphia is now 5-7 after a loss to 3-9 Miami Dolphins, a game in which the Eagles stopped running the ball after taking a 28-14 lead. With the Eagles signing Carson Wentz to a longterm deal and the franchise focused on returning to the Super Bowl, here are 7 potential replacements at offensive coordinator if the team moves on from Mike Groh.

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1. Duce Staley — Eagles assistant head coach

Staley is currently the Eagles running backs coach and also the assistant head coach. Staley, the fifth-leading rusher in franchise history, knows the franchise, has been around some creative offensive play-callers and would have no problem holding quarterback Carson Wentz accountable.

Pederson previously promoted Mike Groh to offensive coordinator, in part because Groh was more involved with the passing game daily.

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Giants’ Daniel Jones has high ankle sprain, Eli Manning likely to start vs. Eagles

New York Giants QB Eli Manning will likely start on Monday night against the Philadelphia Eagles as Daniel Jones deals with an ankle sprain.

The New York Giants are likely to have a new — or old? — quarterback under center on Monday night against the Philadelphia Eagles.

Head coach Pat Shurmur revealed on Wednesday that rookie Daniel Jones is dealing with a “moderate” high ankle sprain and is currently in a walking boot. He is unlikely to play in Week 14, essentially ushering in the return of Eli Manning.

Shurmur says that Jones will not need surgery to repair his injured ankle, but it’s possible the sprain will shut him down for the season, meaning a four-game farewell tour for Manning, whose contract expires at season’s end.

Jones’ injury is said to be “similar to,” but “not as severe” as the high ankle sprain that caused running back Saquon Barkley to miss three games erarlier this season.

Ironically, news of Manning’s return comes two years to the day that Ben McAdoo benched him in favor of Geno Smith, ending Manning’s league-leading iron man streak, much to the dismay of fans and team owners alike.

In another twist of fate, wide receiver Golden Tate (concussion) and tight end Evan Engram (foot) are expected to return this week, giving the Giants their full compliment of offensive talent for the first time this season.

Manning has never missed a game due to injury in his entire 16-year career.

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Will Giants turn to Ron Rivera after departure from Panthers?

Now that Ron Rivera has been fired by the Carolina Panthers, might the New York Giants part ways with Pat Shurmur and go chasing?

The speculation on whether or not Pat Shurmur will remain the head coach of the New York Giants for the 2020 season and beyond has been rampant.

With the recent news of a current head coach now hitting the open market, it surely will make for even more speculation as to whether or not Shurmur remains past the 2019 season.

On Tuesday, the Carolina Panthers dismissed Ron Rivera as their head coach following almost nine seasons on the job.

Rivera was hired as the Panthers’ head coach back in 2011 and went 76-63-1 over that span. The Panthers won the NFC Championship in 2015 and appeared in Super Bowl 50 under him. With new ownership though, and sitting at 5-7, Carolina decided to relieve Rivera of his head coaching duties.

With Rivera now gone from Carolina, will that make him a possible front runner for the Giants’ head coaching job for 2020?

There’s the obvious ties to Dave Gettleman, who worked with Rivera while they were together in Carolina. Gettleman didn’t hire Rivera as the head coach — Rivera was already the head coach when Gettleman was named the general manager in 2012, but they were together for several seasons and for the most part, worked well together.

Although, whether Gettleman remains the Giants’ general manager or not also remains to be seen, as a lot of the fan base has expressed their displeasure in Gettleman and would like to see a complete structural rebuild in the organization.

While John Mara is the one who ultimately picks the head coach, if Gettleman does stay, he’d likely get some influence as to who could replace Shurmur and he could point towards his old coach in Carolina that he was paired with for years, and could cite that they even made it to a Super Bowl together.

The Giants have been partial towards offensive minded head coaches, as the last one with a defensive pedigree was Bill Parcells, and with Daniel Jones now in place, the general idea was that the Giants would want to stick with another offensive minded coach to go with Jones for the future.

But putting Jones aside, the Giants are more in a place where they need to re-establish some order in the organization and find someone with a proven track record in the NFL as is relates to picking the top assistant coach like the Giants have done over the last two coaching hires.

With Rivera now on the market, it gives another realistic possibility for the Giants to turn to if they do decide to part with Shurmur after the season.

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Giants owner finally speaks, asks fans for patience

A New York Giants owner has finally broken his silence, providing fans with no answers, but requesting patience from them.

The New York Giants are currently mired in an eight-game losing streak — the second-longest such streak in franchise history — and all has remained silent in East Rutherford.

Besides the usual barrage of questioning for head coach Pat Shurmur and whatever players the team makes available throughout the week, no one has stepped up to face the music.

After canceling weekly interviews with WFAN, the Giants have enacted life as it would be seen in the film, “A Quiet Place.” There were no bye week press conferences, general manager Dave Gettleman has not been heard from in months and co-owners John Mara and Steve Tisch have remained out of sight.

That changed on Tuesday as Tisch briefly stepped out from the shadows in order to attend the March of Dimes Luncheon.

NBC 4’s Bruce Beck was able to corner Tisch and fire off some questions regarding the current state of the franchise, what — if any — changes were coming this offseason and if there was any specific message for fans.

There was.

Tisch offered absolutely no vote of confidence for Gettleman or Shurmur heading into the offseason, and arguably sounded a bit more assertive than usual.

Who wouldn’t love to be a fly on the wall when Tisch and Mara sit down to discuss what needs to be done and what’s next? You have to imagine that will be an emotionally-charged conversation.

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Brandon Jacobs: 2019 Giants ‘most talented’ than Super Bowl teams

Retired running back Brandon Jacobs believes the 2019 New York Giants are more talented than their two most recent Super Bowl teams.

Retired New York Giants running back Brandon Jacobs has been a consistent presence around the team since he stepped away from the game following the 2013 season, so he has some unique insight into the inner workings of the franchise here in 2019.

However, Jacobs may have recently over-sold the team to an extreme degree, telling Bob Glauber of Newsday that the current roster is “more talented” than both the Super Bowl XLII team and the Super Bowl XLVI team.

“If you ask me, talent-wise in this locker room, they’re better than we were,” Jacobs said. “Player for player, they have more talent. You have to understand, when we won Super Bowls, we didn’t have these amazing seasons.”

What Jacobs feels these Giants lack however, is “heart” and “leaders” that are capable of rallying the troops and winning close games late in the fourth quarter.

Jacobs feels that will come with time and experience, and that is shouldn’t be a reflection of head coach Pat Shurmur.

“Everybody wants to point the thing at the coach, but I don’t think you can do that,” Jacobs said. “You can’t tell me the guys aren’t coming to work trying every day. Everybody says the team’s young. This isn’t college, bro. This is the NFL. Are we supposed to be terrible until everybody gets to six, seven years (in the NFL)? We always told the rookies, ‘Week 2, Week 3, it’s over. Ain’t no more rookies.'”

Jacobs, who currently lives in Atlanta, still flies up to watch the Giants and interact with the current group, but admits he’d move back to East Rutherford at the drop of the dime if the team needed him or he felt as if he could help in some way.

“I would move back up here in a heartbeat if I knew I had an opportunity to help this team,” Jacobs said. “In a heartbeat.”

Agree or disagree with his assessments of the current team compared to the Super Bowl-winning teams, it’s hard not to love Jacobs, who bleeds as deeply blue as the late Wellington Mara did.

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Giants’ Pat Shurmur dismisses Janoris Jenkins’ spirited criticisms

New York Giants head coach Pat Shurmur dismissed Janoris Jenkins’ criticisms of James Bettcher and even argued that they were baseless.

Following a 31-13 loss to the Green Bay Packers in Week 13, New York Giants cornerback Janoris Jenkins didn’t hold back, ripping defensive coordinator James Bettcher and the team’s coaching staff for not using him correctly.

Specifically, Jenkins expressed frustration over not traveling with the opposing No. 1 wide receiver, instead being limited to one side of the field.

“I’m the only one in the league that don’t travel no more,” a frustrated Jenkins told the New York Post. “I don’t understand why. I was traveling other years.

“I play on the left side of the field all game. I get two passes a game. C’mon bro. Everybody in the league who has a top corner, they travel. Rabbit don’t travel no more.”

Addressing those comments during a Monday afternoon conference call, Giants head coach Pat Shurmur dismissed Jenkins’ criticisms as “spirited” and argued that the veteran may be a tad off base.

“He’s a spirited guy and he wants to have an impact on the game,” Shurmur said. “I think his assessment of we’re the only team that doesn’t travel isn’t quite accurate. I just came from the Minnesota Vikings who don’t. I think there’s a lot that goes into that. Again, he’s a competitive guy and I’m sure those are just immediately after the game comments. Unfortunately, I have not had a chance to talk to him, he left immediately (because) there was an illness in his family that he had to go attend to. I’m sure I’m going to have a conversation with him when he gets back.”

Ultimately, Shurmur said, those sort of comments should be saved for private meetings with coaches as opposed to being aired out to the media.

“I think coaches and players talk about a lot of things behind the scenes. But obviously anything that we do we should do behind the scenes,” Shurmur said.

It’s unlikely that Jenkins, who is an obvious favorites of both Shurmur and general manager Dave Gettleman, will be disciplined for his comments, which the coach feels were misinterpreted.

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Giants’ Pat Shurmur: Eli Manning ready if needed vs. Eagles

New York Giants rookie QB Daniel Jones (ankle) is expected to play vs. the Philadelphia Eagles, but Eli Manning is “ready” if called upon.

New York Giants head coach Pat Shurmur said during his Monday conference call with reporters that Eli Manning “is ready” if rookie quarterback Daniel Jones’ ankle keeps him out of next Monday night’s game in Philadelphia against the Eagles.

Jones was hobbled in the second half of Sunday’s 31-13 loss to the Green Bay Packers but stayed in the game and toughed it out.

“Not really,” Jones said after the game when asked if his ankle held him back late in the game. “Yeah, I hurt it on that fourth down play right there. It’s sore, but that’s part of playing the game. I’ll be fine.”

The Giants have an extra day of practice this week and Shurmur anticipates Jones participating in each.

Shurmur also said that he was “hopeful” that tight end Evan Engram (foot) can return next week versus the Eagles. Engram sprained the foot in the Giants’ Week 9 loss to the Cowboys and has not played since.

The coach was asked if he had spoken to cornerback Janoris Jenkins, who was critical of defensive coordinator James Bettcher after the game on Sunday. He said he had not as Jenkins was attending to an ill family member on Monday.

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Pat Shurmur wants you to remember Giants are a ‘historically young team’

Head coach Pat Shurmur wants all of his critics to remember the New York Giants are a “historically young team.”

The New York Giants have lost eight consecutive games, have a 2-10 record going into Week 14 and Pat Shurmur’s job as head coach no longer appears to be safe.

These Giants are a disaster and there’s no way to soften that blow of reality.

However, these Giants are very youth-heavy, leading the NFL in rookie snaps by a mile — a number that increases every game and will continue to rise down the stretch — and Shurmur would like critics to remember that.

“I’m always concerned when we don’t win. This is another feeling question. I’ll feel better when we win games. If you’re wondering how I feel, I’ll feel a lot better when we win games. I do see, you get an opportunity to watch us probably 20 minutes a day and you report on it,” Shurmur told reporters after Sunday’s loss. “This is a historically young team that’s going out there and competing against some really good football teams. We’ve got to do what we have to do to win games and I understand that. They also are developing. At some point, we’ll be good enough to win.”

But the Giants aren’t good enough to win now, and Shurmur is being judged on his wins and losses. And at this point in his career, he’s statistically one of the worst head coaches in NFL history.

“People will change what they think of us and me when we win games,” Shurmur added. “I’m a realist when it comes to that and I get it. And you know what, when you don’t win, I expect what is written and said and what people think. I expect fans to be upset because we are, too. But we go about trying to fix it.”

The Giants have four more chances to win some games this season, beginning with the Philadelphia Eagles on Monday Night Football.

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8 NFL coaches on the hot seat

Jason Garrett, Ron Rivera and Dan Quinn are among the coaches who likely will find themselves on the hot seat.

It is the time for season’s beatings as records fall and the temperature rises on coaches who have not had success. A look at those who are flirting with becoming victims of the coaching carousel.

Dan Quinn

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The Atlanta Falcons’ coach should wind up with another team. A fresh start would benefit him and everyone in the ATL. Point to the Super Bowl collapse as the start of the downfall, sure, but the Falcons simply are no longer close to contenders. They are not pretenders. They are a team that is playing poorly and when you do it for that long, your coach usually pays.

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