New York Giants: Shurmur doesn’t throw Eli Manning under bus

For New York Giants and Eli Manning supporters, this loss was a tough pill to swallow.

And while the scorebook tells us it was the Washington Redskins 20 – New York Giants 13, anyone who watched the game, can tell you the offense let the entire team down. A shorthanded defense did its part. Ditto for the special teams.

The dicey part for head coach Pat Shurmur is to get that point across without saying it overtly. The last thing this first-year coach needs is a fractured locker room. So after Sunday’s loss, Shurmur deftly tiptoed the questions, nearly as proficiently as Saquon Barkley does along the sidelines.

To his credit, Shurmur first attacked the issue head-on in his opening remarks,…