New York Giants: 3 burning questions after miserable loss to Eagles

Is head coach Pat Shurmur the right guy?

Then there is the New York Giants first-year head coach.

Shurmur, who was the offensive coordinator for the Minnesota Vikings top-10 scoring offense in the league last season, now is calling the shots for a team that ranks toward the bottom of the barrel in the same category with just 19.5 points per contest, per ESPN stats.

Quite frankly, his offensive scheme looks underwhelming and uninventive to this point, which is the complete opposite of how things looked in Minnesota when he led the Vikings all the way to the NFC Conference Championship.

It does not help that the offense is anchored by a struggling line that can’t give its pocket passer more than two seconds to throw, but the over-reliance on the magnificent Saquon Barkley proved just how one-dimensional Shurmur’s unit is thus far.

Out of the Giants 401 offensive yards against the Eagles in Week 6, Barkley accounted for 57 percent of that total with 130 rushing yards on 13 carries and 99 receiving yards on nine catches.

Opposing defenses will inevitably figure out a way to at least contain Saquon in the future and force Shurmur to go elsewhere with the ball. If he doesn’t have an answer for that, then we can only imagine how worse things could get.

It also doesn’t help Shurmur’s situation that he has been showing justified frustration in press conferences lately.

Last week, he was visibly seething while fielding questions about OBJ’s explicit comments toward the team. This week, Shurmur got testy during his post-game presser with reporters who questioned the team’s obvious lack of effort following their home loss, per Giants.com:

"“I just said I’m not worried about their effort. Didn’t he ask me about effort? Then I said I wasn’t concerned about their effort, here we go again. I wasn’t concerned about their effort. I’m concerned about how we executed, how we didn’t get in the end zone, and how we let them in the end zone.”"

Starting 1-5 will drive any coach mad. Shurmur took over a franchise that already had existing questions surrounding Manning’s ability to win consistently coupled with Beckham’s history of questionable vocality and antics.

Losing streaks only create more negative questions while new problems begin to pile. It’s only a matter of time before those impatient with a roster that has no lack of weapons and looks good on paper start pointing the finger at the man calling the plays.