Except for Saquon Barkley, Giants hardly look on right path

Saquon Barkley celebrates a fourth-quarter touchdown Sunday.It was the kind of gut-wrenching defeat that would ruin the offseason for most coaches, players and fans, a one-point heartbreaker to the division-rival Cowboys at MetLife Stadium in the Giants’ final game of the season.

Yet, after it was over, Giants head coach Pat Shurmur declared: “We’re on the right path,” sounding as if his team had won its last three games of the season instead of losing all three.

And so began a concerted effort to put a positive spin on their 36-35 loss to the Cowboys on Sunday and their 5-11 record. The Giants talked up how their young team had stuck together, fought hard and learned to battle through…