After working with a leadership council during his days on the coaching staff with the New England Patriots, head coach Joe Judge plans on bringing that to the New York Giants.
According to Paul Schwartz of the New York Post, Judge confirmed his intention to form a leadership council, which will happen at some point between training camp and the start of the season.
“We definitely will,’’ Judge said. “Nothing’s been formally structured right now. Normally those start to emerge in the spring. Really with our new exposure to these players, we wanted to go ahead and get through a spring.’’
The leadership council will take shape on top of the team picking captains, something that will happen by player vote.
Judge doesn’t have a specific number of players in mind for this council, but he does have an idea of what he’ll be looking for.
“We’ll grab some guys we believe represent a larger part of the team,’’ Judge said. “We don’t have a specific number narrowed down. I’ve been exposed to all different ways of doing that, whether it’s one guy per position or guys of different ages. For us, we have to identify the makeup of our team in training camp and see what the best fit we can do with that.’’
For a team like the Giants that is young and has lacked discipline and accountability in recent years, this almost seems like a must.
However, with such a young roster, it might be a bit more challenging for Big Blue to form this council than it is for most teams. Judge and the coaching staff have to make sure that whoever is on it has the respect of their peers.
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