New York Giants stuck in vicious layoff cycle, ready for full makeover – New York Giants Blog
EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ – We go around. The Giants in New York manage on their own, and every two years they seem to find themselves in the same place as another head coach who got fired.
This time Joe Judge has been fired Third after working with an inadequate squad. Meanwhile, general manager Dave Gettleman, the chef who bought groceries and was partly responsible for the departures of Judge and his predecessor, Pat Shurmur, had allowed to retire a day before.
The Giants are stuck in this vicious cycle – with three of their past coaches spanning two seasons or less – and co-owners John Mara and Steve Tisch are held accountable. It was mistake after mistake, with a lot of loss left behind.
The Giants have been the worst team in the NFL for the past five seasons with a 22-59 record. All they had to do to see what a bad franchise would look like would be in a mirror.
A 4-13 record this season prompted the shooting. Judge clinched 6-10 in 2020 as head coach for the first time in a season lauded by ownership after the team appeared to have made significant strides. In recent weeks, Judge has talked about the progress made behind the scenes and closer to the respect the outside world recognizes.
Ownership was clearly in disagreement, and there was a quick confrontation.
Mara said in a statement: “I said before the season started that I wanted to feel good about the direction we were going when we played the last game of the season. “Unfortunately, I can’t make that statement, which is why we made this decision.”
It is not to say that Judge is not to blame for his own downfall. If the Giants only lost respectably at the end of this season, he would probably still have a job. But not only have they been unable to score (they have topped 10 points once in their last six games with the back-up quarterback) but they are even more unlikely to step back to pull through as an active NFL team.
Judge also incited the masses by rambling for 11 minutes after losing 29-3 arrive Chicago Bears in Week 17 and turned the organization into a punch when he ran full-back sneaking this past Sunday inside his own 5-yard line for more space to hit the ball in the second half.
The Giants, a once proud organization, is now looking for things like Jacksonville Jaguars and Houston Texas. That seems almost impossible to type.
At least now they have a chance to get rid of it all completely and start over. They never really did, hiring Gettleman (a member of the extended Giants family) before the end of the 2017 season. That move resulted in running it again with quarterback Eli Manning and the draft running again Saquon Barkley 2nd overall in 2018.
The giants cast a wide net outside their building in search of a superintendent. Buffalo assistant general manager Joe Schoen will have his first crack at impressing bronze in his first videoconference interview on Wednesday. Chief of Kansas City CEO Ryan Poles was also present in the interviews and was one of the names that had been talked about in the building for weeks.
The general manager would then have no real limits. He won’t have to worry about Judge hanging around as a potential duck trainer or reluctance to overhaul the front office or modernize the Giants’ operations. At this point, everything – other than the layoff of ownership – is on the table.
Potential GM candidates actually got the impression that Judge wouldn’t be in the picture even before he was fired on Tuesday. So this is always a possibility.
These moves will allow coaches and general managers to link up, something that should have happened two years ago when they hired Judge.
