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The New York Giants have dealt with clock management issues and the misuse of timeouts all season. The reason? Head coach Joe Judge claims that it’s been due, in part, to faulty communication systems on the sideline.
“The headsets were going out,” Judge told reporters after a 20-17 loss to the Kansas City Chiefs. “We are having headset issues. This has happened in every game so far. We deal with the league and they keep telling us there are different software updates or whatever it is, but we had to call two timeouts today because we were trying to send the deals in personnel wise and you got half of the headsets not getting reception.
“I have had it at every single stadium this year home and away. I have had issues personally. I would say this. Whoever is in charge of it. I don’t know the exact answer. I don’t know if it comes from the league or us exactly, but they better fix it fast. That is it. We get the communication back that these things are an issue and then we get told they have adjusted this, they have done this, whatever it is.”
The NFL has swung back on Judge’s claim, saying they were unable to identify any such issue with the Bose equipment.
“We are looking into the matter with all involved parties; however, we are confident that nothing is attributable to the Bose headset,” the NFL said in a statement. “We have not been able to identify an issue in last night’s game with the Giants’ communication system.
“We were not made aware of any issues during the game from the club through our standard communication channels that are used to identify gameday issues.”
Judge doubled-down on the alleged issues following the NFL’s statement, but cut off any additional line of questioning, saying he’s “not an excuse maker.”
Safety Julian Love, meanwhile, seemed to confirm the technical issues and called them “unfortunate.”
“Yeah, it was definitely unfortunate. One of them there was some technical difficulties on the sideline, so you hate to see Coach have to burn some timeouts,” Love told reporters on Tuesday. “That’s not what you want as a team. You want to obviously have those towards the end of the half, so yeah, that’s something we’ve got to be better on as a whole.”
The Giants have just a few days to figure this all out before once again taking the field. They host the Las Vegas Raiders at MetLife Stadium on Sunday afternoon.
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