Giants Q&A: Will Pat Shurmur ever get a pass-interference call overturned? And why does he keep trying?

Giants coach Pat Shurmur looks on during the third quarter against the Dallas Cowboys at MetLife Stadium on Monday, Nov. 4, 2019 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. Photo Credit: Jim McIsaac

Why does Pat Shurmur continue to challenge pass- interference calls?

“I’m a hopeful guy,” he said, which explains his insistence on red-flagging such calls and non-calls this season despite mounting evidence that the NFL will not overturn them. Shurmur even seemed to take some strange pride in the fact that there had been eight previous challenges in Week 9 that been upheld, and his was the ninth. “There is a system in place for that,” he said of the rules that now allow coaches to challenge pass…