McAdoo trying to prevent winless from

THE question with the Giants is no longer can this team make a playoff run, but rather how bad are things going to get?

Sunday’s 25-23 loss to the Buccaneers dropped the Giants to 0-4. It was their second straight loss courtesy of a last-second field goal and put the Giants alongside the Chargers, 49ers and Browns as the only winless teams left in the league.

For a team that entered the season with such high expectations, this is not how things were supposed to go and Ben McAdoo faces perhaps his biggest challenge yet: keeping the team motivated despite a lost season.

“The biggest thing I’m concerned with is guys going numb,” he said. “We can’t go numb. Can never accept this. Fight through it and get to work on that first win.”

The Giants certainly sounded numb after Nick Folk’s 34-yard field goal snuck just inside the goalpost to hand them their fourth straight loss.

Linebacker Jonathan Casillas admitted it may take longer than their “24-hour rule” to get over it.

“No one ever predicted us to do anything like that,” he said. “It’s gonna be really hard to swallow this one.”

Cornerback Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie was also among those who spoke with great disappointment.

“Very surprised,” he said. “To tell me we’ve got who we got, with the ability and the knowledge that we have, and we ain’t got one win? I mean that’s tough.”

McAdoo was doing his best to send the message that his team needs to move on, but not without also admitting it is going to be difficult.

“It’s fight or flight time,” McAdoo said. “We have talented men of integrity in the locker room. It’s not going to be easy. We have to go out there we have to fight.”