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Joe Judge did not receive a fair shake with Giants

The New York Giants have fired head coach Joe Judge who, contrary to popular belief, did not receive a fair shake in East Rutherford.

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The New York Giants officially pulled the plug on Tuesday, firing head coach Joe Judge after just two seasons with the team.

The termination represented the end of a remarkable fall from grace for Judge, who arrived in East Rutherford with the full support of team ownership. John Mara and Steve Tisch were convinced that Judge would finally put an end to the vicious coaching cycle and restore Giants pride.

As recently as two and a half months ago, Mara and Tisch still believed that. In fact, Mara offered his public support of Judge.

“It is,” Mara said when asked if his belief in Judge remains strong. “Obviously, we’ve struggled this year, but he has not lost the locker room, and I’ve seen that happen over the years. I think the players still believe in him. We’ve just got to get our guys healthy again.”

But things drastically changed after that comment was made.

The Giants completely fell apart on the field, losing six straight games — many of them in humiliating fashion — to close out the season. And then, of course, there was the 11-minute rant Judge unleashed following a loss to Chicago in Week 17.

That speech was likely the final nail in Judge’s coffin.

Changes were necessary and Judge had to go with a new general manager coming in to oversee things. It was the only move ownership could make if they truly wanted to start fresh. Plus, Judge left them little choice.

But how much of the failure was the fault of Judge? Did he really get a fair shake? We’d argue not so much…

Judge started behind the eight-ball in his first season with the Giants. The world was crippled by the COVID-19 pandemic and that drastically altered the approach for the first-time head coach. Rather than working on-hand with his team, Judge was thrust into a virtual world where he had to create a foundation digitally.

There was also the presence of general manager Dave Gettleman, who had already lost the faith of fans and was trending downward. His roster building left Judge very little meat on the bone to work with and that was only compounded by bad contracts and injuries in 2021.

By the time this past season ended, the Giants led the league in games missed due to injury and were so depleted offensively that they failed to function at even a High School level. Never was that more evident than in Week 18 when they ran back-to-back quarterback sneaks inside their own 10-yard line with their third-string quarterback.

That, too, was a bad look for Judge but a necessary evil. Situationally, the Giants had been there a week earlier and failed. Judge simply refused to relive that nightmare.

Then, of course, there was the presence of Jason Garrett — a veteran coach who was forced on Judge as his offensive coordinator. The relationship didn’t work and had completely fizzled by the time of Garrett’s mid-season termination.

Judge was also saddled with a roster that he didn’t help build. He inherited the injured-prone Saquon Barkley, the under-performing Daniel Jones and one of the worst offensive lines ever assembled, among other negatives.

Yes, this was the job Judge had campaigned for. Yes, he was certain he could take what was given and fix things. That did not happen but to poke fun of Judge, pile on and force him to shoulder the majority of blame is both unfair and objectively dishonest. He couldn’t save the already sinking ship and had to go, but he certainly didn’t drown the organization himself.

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Report: Giants coaches ‘walked on eggshells’ around Joe Judge

New York Giants coaches reportedly “walked on eggshells” around Joe Judge, who the team decided to fire on Tuesday.

It took a bit longer than it probably needed to, but the New York Giants went ahead and relieved Joe Judge from his head coaching duties on Tuesday.

For some reason, Judge made it through Black Monday despite just four wins in the first ever 18-game season in NFL history.

The state of limbo surrounding Judge’s job made for some awkward interviews with the Giants players as they had their end of season media availability on Monday. There was also many mixed reports of whether or not the players wanted Judge back as the head coach for next season.

Ultimately, with the Giants already having to search for a new general manager following Dave Gettleman’s retirement, it made sense to get rid of Judge as well and have the new GM have some input on the next head coach.

If the reports are factual and some players didn’t want Judge to return, it appears that they were not alone in that thought process.

If the coaching staff felt uneasy around Judge, perhaps he didn’t fix the culture as much as he thought he did — which he touched on when he went on an 11-minute rant a little more than a week ago.

Expect more reports like these to surface in the coming days and weeks. As the building in East Rutherford is cleaned out, the singing will undoubtedly continue.

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Everyone is laughing at the New York Giants, and rightfully so

What took so long, Giants?

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On Monday the New York Giants’ ownership basically grabbed some old milk out of the fridge, took a huge sip, fought off the urge to throw up all over the walls and put the carton back in the fridge.

On Tuesday, they took that same carton out, slugged down some more, puked all over the place and realized it would probably be best to throw that milk out.

It shouldn’t have taken that extra day to realize what the right thing was to do, but when you’re used to making bad decisions it apparently can be hard to to make the easy, and correct, call.

What I’m talking about here, of course, is how the Giants handled the Joe Judge situation and how they waited two days before doing the right thing and fired a guy who proved time and again that being a head coach in the NFL was something that was way over his head.

On Monday, the NFL world laughed at the Giants when it looked like they were sticking with Judge.

On Tuesday, the NFL world laughed even harder when the Giants finally canned their head coach.

Like, what took so long?

In all honesty, they should have fired Judge during last Sunday’s game right after he had his offense run the most shameful QB sneak in the history of football. Their fans at MetLife would have given a standing ovation if that had happened and the players would have happily waved goodbye to Judge as he sadly made his way to the tunnel.

The Giants are a mess and the faster they realize this and come to terms with the fact they are a mess the faster they’ll be able to start making moves to try to not be a mess. Self awareness is a big key in life and it took the Giants a few days here but it seems like they finally now know that they need help, which is good.

What’s bad is they are in such a hole that it’s likely going to take a while to climb out of it. Starting over with a new GM and new coach will be good for them but this house still needs to be completely re-done and that takes a lot of time.

The Giants have won just 22 games over the past five seasons under three different coaches, which tells you all you need to know about this dysfunctional franchise.

What’s key for the Giants now is that they make the right moves when hiring the new GM and especially when picking out their next head coach.

If they don’t do that history tells us they’ll likely be grabbing some more old milk again in just a few years, which as they learned this week, is not funny, no matter how many people are laughing.

Quick hits: Stetson Bennett’s incredible GMA interview… Classy moment for Saban and Smart… Postseason fantasy football tips. 

– Georgia QG Stetson Bennett went on Good Morning America yesterday after winning the national championship and was still clearly a bit tired from all the celebrating.

– Microphones picked up the classy exchange between Nick Saban and Kirby Smart right after the championship game.

– Charles Curtis has 5 tips on how to win your fantasy football playoffs league.

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Will Texans GM Nick Caserio give former Giants coach Joe Judge a second chance?

The New York Giants canned Joe Judge as coach. Will Houston Texans general manager Nick Caserio give an ex-Patriots assistant a job in the AFC South?

The New York Giants fired Joe Judge Tuesday. The G-Men will be looking for their fourth coach since two-time Super Bowl champion coach Tom Coughlin retired at the end of the 2015 season.

Judge will also be looking for a job. Could he find one with the Houston Texans?

Certainly Judge may have been worse than David Culley when it came to failed expectations in 2021. The Giants have a first-round quarterback in Daniel Jones, a Pro Bowl running back in Saquon Barkley, and decent weapons in Kadarius Toney, Evan Engram, and Kenny Golladay. New York’s defense was also pretty stout, especially along the defensive line.

Somehow the Giants managed to finish 4-13, the same as the moribund Texans. After a 6-10 finish, a change had to be made.

Whereas the Texans seemed to gain momentum near the end of the season, going 2-3 in Davis Mills’ final five games, the Giants finished on a six-game losing streak and went 1-5 in the division.

Maybe Judge can’t coach a team, but he can coach special teams.

Before taking over in New York, Judge was a special teams assistant for the New England Patriots from 2012-14 before taking over as special teams coordinator in 2015. For the next five seasons, Judge held the role and doubled up as receivers coach in his final season with the Giants. The Patriots went to three straight Super Bowls from 2016-18, winning two of them. In 2019, the Patriots were tied with the San Francisco 49ers for the ninth-highest yards per punt return at 8.0, and they were tied for 17th-most kickoff return yards with 22.1.

To this point, Texans general manager Nick Caserio, who was with the Patriots going back to 2001 in various capacities, has not infused coach David Culley’s staff with any former Bill Belichick assistants. Given that the Texans were one of eight teams to have a kickoff return for a touchdown, and finished tied for eighth-most yards per punt at 46.7, it is safe to say Frank Ross’ job might be safe.

However, if Caserio decides to move on from Culley following the 2021 season, there may be an opening for Judge as an assistant. Caserio shouldn’t consider Judge as a Culley replacement under any circumstance.

Giants fire Joe Judge: Here’s how Twitter reacted

The New York Giants fired head coach Joe Judge on Tuesday and Twitter did not hold back.

Fans were outraged when Joe Judge wasn’t fired as head coach of the New York Giants on Black Monday.

Then came “Black Tuesday,” and ownership informed Judge that he would be, in fact, dismissed.

How did Twitter react? Like a late Christmas gift was given to them.

Joe Judge, fired by the New York Giants, reportedly had his assistant text his coaching staff the news

Joe Judge left the Giants the way he ran the team: confusingly.

New York Giants head coach Joe Judge escaped Black Monday, the morning after the NFL’s regular season ends and foundering coaches are sent packing. He did not survive the Tuesday that followed.

Judge was fired by the Giants after two seasons of losses on and of the field. The former New England Patriots’ special teams coordinator never crested above .500 in New York en route to a 10-23 record. His offenses, with help from since-retired general manager Dave Gettleman, were inoffensive at best and an ever-expanding Superfund site at worst. His defenses flexed and then broke under the strain of bad field position and perpetually losing the time of possession battle.

His last weeks on the job were punctuated by several moments that showcased how untenable his position was. First there was a bizarre 11-minute rant that told a fairy tale version of his tenure only Judge could see. Then came a white flag by virtue of a third-and-9 quarterback sneak late in the second quarter of a 3-0 game against the Washington Football Team.

Soon after, the veterans in his locker room began deflecting questions about his future. Judge had lost them, no matter what he’d told the media. New York’s baffling decision to keep him through Monday only prolonged his employment by roughly 30 hours.

Judge reportedly relayed the news to his staff via text.

From his assistant.

If that’s the case, it’s second only in departing coach scumbaggery to Bobby Petrino announcing his resignation from the Atlanta Falcons via photocopied memos stuck in lockers after leaving in the middle of the night. It’s also a fitting end to depressing campaign from a coach who was promoted to too much, too soon. Judge couldn’t handle the Giants, whether that meant fights on the first full-pads practice of training camp, futile attempts to convince the world his players (and former players) loved his coaching style, or allegedly abdicating the responsibility of breaking the news to his assistant coaches they’d all need to look for new jobs.

Judge was a through-and-through disaster for New York. Keeping him would have only hamstrung the team’s general manager search and prevented it from seeing what, if anything, Daniel Jones can add to the quarterback position in 2022. Now the Giants get a fresh slate with a wide array of qualified rising coaches to take the reins.

All the next hire will have to do to earn a third year with the team is be better than Judge, Pat Shurmur, or Ben McAdoo. If the bar were any lower, we’d have to break out the shovels to find it.

That’s Giants football, baby.

The Giants finally fired Joe Judge. What took them so long?

The Giants finally fired Joe Judge on Tuesday. Before they hire his replacement, they’d better re-examine what they want in a head coach.

On Sunday, the New York Giants lost their sixth straight game, and their seventh of eight, in an embarrassing 22-7 takedown by the Washington Football Team. The most ridiculous part of the game was unquestionably head coach Joe Judge’s decision to call two straight quarterback sneaks inside his own five-yard line. Basically, Judge gave his team no chance to compete, and showed no confidence in his players.

“We were backed up,” Judge said of the play calls after the game. “Had a shot at the play-action to get the ball out in the flat. We’ve got to make the throw and hit the guy right there. (Fullback) Eli (Penny) was open there. It would’ve been a good shot coming off the goal line there to get us some yardage and get us some space. Ultimately, we were backed up, I wanted to get room. We were going to push it on forward. I wasn’t going to live through what happened last week in Chicago, so we’re going to give ourselves room for the punt. We did that, we gave ourselves room for the punt. We protected it, we covered well. We played the field position situation I wanted to play. We held them on the next drive and that’s the way we want to go ahead and play that. Do we want to do that all the time we’re backed up? No, but that was a situation that with where we were we wanted to make sure that the things that we had an issue with last week in Chicago was not going to repeat itself.”

When Judge referred to what happened in Chicago, we’re assuming he’s referring to the safety the Bears had in a 29-3 Giants loss in which running back Devontae Booker couldn’t get out of the end zone on a run from the New York one-yard line.

That was Judge’s tenure with the Giants — a whole lot of ridiculous decisions explained away with Judge’s inexplicable confidence in his own coaching abilities. Outside of the quarterback sneaks, the weirdest part of Judge’s second season was the viral 11-minute rant he went on after that Bears game — a rant that Judge later said he did not regret at all.

It took the Giants organization until Tuesday to make the decision they really needed to make, but it happened. Judge was fired after two seasons, and a 10-23 record. This after multiple rumors that the Giants would retain Judge for a third season, and possibly give him more organizational control.

“[Giants chairperson] Steve [Tisch] and I both believe it is in the best interest of our franchise to move in another direction,” team president John Mara said in a statement. “We met with Joe yesterday afternoon to discuss the state of the team. I met again with Joe this afternoon, and it was during that conversation I informed Joe of our decision. We appreciate Joe’s efforts on behalf of the organization.

“I said before the season started that I wanted to feel good about the direction we were headed when we played our last game of the season. Unfortunately, I cannot make that statement, which is why we have made this decision.

“We will hire a general manager and that person will lead the effort to hire a new head coach.”

Now, the Giants are set for a total rebuild with Judge’s firing, and the retirement of general manager Dave Gettleman. The rebuild can’t come soon enough, and the Giants had better start rethinking the processes by which they hire their most important employees.

This formerly great franchise hasn’t made the playoffs since the 2016 season, they’ve finished fourth in the four-team NFC East in three of the subsequent five seasons, and they’ve burned through four coaches in the last six years: Ben McAdoo, Steve Spagnuolo as the interim head coach after McAdoo was fired during the 2017 season, then two years of Pat Shurmur (who went 9-23), and then Judge (who went 10-23).

“It is an understatement to say John and I are disappointed by the lack of success we have had on the field,” Tisch said in that same statement. “We are united in our commitment to find a general manager who will provide the direction necessary for us to achieve the on-field performance and results we all expect.”

Before they hire anybody, the Giants had best realize that their current hiring processes are disastrous, and take a different turn. Otherwise, more of the same can be guaranteed.

Giants fire head coach Joe Judge

The New York Giants have fired head coach Joe Judge after just two seasons.

The New York Giants will be making wholesale changes this offseason.

Earlier this week, general manager Dave Gettleman announced his retirement. On Tuesday, the team informed head coach Joe Judge that he would not be retained.

“Steve (Tisch) and I both believe it is in the best interest of our franchise to move in another direction,” said team president John Mara. “We met with Joe yesterday afternoon to discuss the state of the team. I met again with Joe this afternoon, and it was during that conversation I informed Joe of our decision. We appreciate Joe’s efforts on behalf of the organization.

“I said before the season started that I wanted to feel good about the direction we were headed when we played our last game of the season. Unfortunately, I cannot make that statement, which is why we have made this decision.

“We will hire a general manager and that person will lead the effort to hire a new head coach.”

In two seasons with the Giants, Judge compiled a 10-23 record. His 4-13 finish in 2021 was among the worst in franchise history — the 13 losses the most ever by a Giants head coach.

Judge appeared to have some staying power as recently as a month ago, but the team’s final four games and his post-Chicago press conference meltdown ultimately sealed his fate.

The Giants will begin their head coaching search immediately after a new general manager is hired.

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NFC East news: Giants fire head coach Joe Judge

#NFCEast news: #Brooklyn #NY native Brian #Flores would be the perfect candidate after the #Giants fire head coach #JoeJudge

There’s another opening in the NFL and it happens to again be in the NFC East after the Giants just fired head coach Joe Judge.

A Southeastern, PA native, Judge went 6-10 in his first season with the Giants, agitating Eagles fans with his reaction to the team playing Nate Sudfeld in the season 2020 season finale against Washington.

In 2021, the Giants went 4-13, as Daniel Jones and Saquon Barkley both spent time on injured reserve, and according to Mike Garafalo, Judge met with team ownership Monday afternoon and came away with no clarity regarding his future after GM, David Gettleman retired before he could be fired.

Judge, 40, went 10-23 in two seasons with the team, and now Philadelphia fans will have a new Giants coach to root against.

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Rob Sale leaves Giants, joins Florida Gators

The New York Giants have lost offensive line coach Rob Sale, who has taken the offensive coordinator role at the University of Florida.

The New York Giants will once again be looking for a new offensive line coach under Joe Judge — assuming Judge himself stays.

Rob Sale, who had taken the Giants’ offensive line coaching job for the 2021 season, is departing to become the offensive coordinator for the University of Florida.

The move was widely expected, especially given Sale’s ties to Florid head coach Rob Napier, who were both assistant coaches on Alabama together.

Since Judge has become the head coach for the Giants in 2020, he’s had three offensive line coaches: Marc Colombo, who was fired in the middle of the 2020 season after an in-house blow-up, and Dave DeGuglielmo, who finished the rest of the season before he was hired away by Louisiana Tech.

And now Sale, who departs for the college game like DeGuglielmo.

The next offensive line coach has the task of trying to help fix a unit that has been near the bottom of the NFL for several years.

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