The New York Giants’ loss on Sunday to the Washington Football Team ended their season with 13 losses for only the second time in franchise history.
Joe Judge became the first Giants head coach to lose 13 games in a single season. The Giants lost 13 games in 2017 but that was under two coaches (Ben McAdoo and Steve Spagnuolo).
Let it be said that this year was the beginning of the 17-game schedule, so Judge had an extra week to accomplish the embarrassing feat.
The Giants’ record in their two years under Judge is 10-23. The Giants’ futility goes back before Judge took the reins in 2020, however. They have lost 10 or more games in seven of their last eight seasons, the only exception being 2016 when they went 11-5 in McAdoo’s first year and qualified for the playoffs.
That year ended abruptly with a blowout loss to Green Bay which was preceded the infamous ‘boat trip’ incident. New York have been a bottom-dwellers ever since as general manager Dave Gettleman and the Giants’ front office have driven this once proud franchise straight into the ground.
The Giants are in such dire straits at the moment, they would be better off re-entering the league as an expansion team, this way they can amass some talent and have some salary cap room to work with. Right now, they have very little talent and only a sliver of cap space to operate with.
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