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The New York Giants have officially fired offensive coordinator Jason Garrett and Freddie Kitchens is poised to step into the vacated role. Or is he?
Despite reports suggesting Kitchens will assume play-calling duties, Giants head coach Joe Judge refuses to make an official announcement. He believes it’s a competitive advantage to keep the Philadelphia Eagles guessing ahead of a Week 12 game.
“We’ll talk through it as the week goes. We’ll work through it collectively as an offense and build into Sunday when it comes,” Judge told reporters on Wednesday. “We’ve got a lot of things that may be a little bit up our sleeve. Any competitive advantage you want to have you want to keep to yourselves.”
Kitchens, with a play sheet in hand, worked with quarterback Daniel Jones during practice on Wednesday. That hardly screamed “secret,” but Judge continues to stick with his coy approach nonetheless.
“I would expect everyone being on the sideline involving calling plays,” Judge added. “That being said, the guys in the booth are directly responsible for communicating the looks, the fronts, the coverages, some of the adjustments we have to have and being our eyes overtop. The communication from the booth to the field really stays constant.”
Eagles head coach Nick Sirianni isn’t falling for it. He’s had his staff and players watching old Cleveland Browns tape to prepare for a Kitchen-led offense. However, he admits that not knowing for certain is somewhat of a competitive advantage for the Giants.
“I believe there’s a competitive advantage [for the Giants] whenever there’s a change,” Sirianni told reporters on Wednesday, “and you don’t have any current tape on the coordinator that will be calling it.”
On Sunday, the Giants will trot out Kitchens as their play-caller and the NFL’s worst-kept secret will be revealed to no surprise.
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