media, availability,
whatever. He's been saying lately and he was back at it
again. Yesterday. He doubled down on his epic postgame,
press conference after the blowout loss to the Bears of
all teams the Bears. I mean, it's not like it's
the 85 Bears is the 2001 or 2021 Bears. Excuse me. Here's
Joe. Judge with more yesterday. He was asked, if players call
him to say, they want to come back to the Giants. He insisted
that
that they do. Here's what he had to say yesterday.
Well, I would say this, I wouldn't want to try to
identify names and I think would be pure speculation.
Look, it's a small League. Keep in touch with a lot of players
with Coach elsewhere.
You know, there's obviously was very things that were very
careful with tampering. We never try to get anything that
makes but look everyone supports each other, you know,
you guys had good games from across the way and make sure my
text and say, hey man, like the way he played in a certain
technique or certain play, keep it going
guys, reach back out to you.
Look there's a number of players have been here through
the years. I'm not going to go into individuals right now. I'm
not going to try to open up that you know kind of chapter
go. Guessing what it may be.
But I just know that, you know,
we have a strong culture is players from other teams
that I know reach out to our players, currently have reached
out to me as well through different Avenues.
Nothing. I need to be looked into anything that nature but
look I know it's a place of players want to play. Okay.
I know it's a place, a player to want to play. So place a lot
player going to want to play for a long
time. So I'm gonna leave it at that. People ask me a direct
question. I give direct answers. So, you know,
whoever's listening is going to get a dose of the truth.
And, you know, I was honestly answered to the call.
To the fans. That's what of questions asked for. But
obviously the response can apply to a number of different
areas.
Joe. Do you have any regrets about any of yesterday's comments?
No?
Hey, Chris your guy, Joe judge going to talk his way out of
a job. If he keeps that up, that's some dangerous stuff
that he's talking about. He's basically admitting to
tampering without getting into any specifics. He's admitting
that he communicates with players from other teams,
who are expressing an interest to come play for the Giants
that that to the extent that the NFL cares about it. And you
never know when they care about it. They only care about it
when they decide they care about it. That that's how
glaring red flag that stuff that we know happens,
but the fact that he would even
Get his hand close to that fire publicly. That's Al arming to
me. Yeah, I mean, I hear you. It's a small league. So you are
going to stay in contact with players and X coaches and that
there that's certainly does go on.
There's no doubt. I mean,
I don't doubt that. There's guys on the team or ex-players who
maybe want to come back to the Giants. I don't know
necessarily if it's just a because of what the Giants are
right now, but it because in New York, it's the New York
City area, you know, the Giants still been around a long time.
And they understand what professional football is about,
you know, it's different being in
that organization as compared to some lesser ones and
football and to live in the New York area. There's a lot of
great. There's a lot of players in the NFL that want to be
around New York City and be in the,
you know, the media capital of the world and all that that's
enticing to guys.
But yeah, this is not a good look for, you know, the Giants
or Joe judge, who, you know. Again, you know, I've been
a staunch defender of Joe judge. I really have.
I like his messages a lot of the time. I'm there's things
I've really liked about the way the team approaches games on
a weekly basis, but to get your butt whooped like that on
Sunday
and then go on that type of ran
and make those comments. It just doesn't come off the right way.
It doesn't now he's backed in a corner
and he's trying to make it sound like hey things are still
going on the up-and-up, but you know what happens is, it sounds
insecure a little bit and then it ends up being a little bit.
We're now you're talking too long and people are going to
Should everything you say there
and that's where it just went off the rails. And
yeah, it just was definitely not one of Joe judges best
moments there Sunday after the football game. And and I don't
know if you necessarily helped himself out a whole lot there.
Yesterday, with would that interview either
Chris is comes off as a guy who hasn't gotten an assurance that
he's going to be back. It's been reported that he'll be
back but he hasn't gotten that Assurance directly from anyone
with the organization. Why else would you feel compelled to
engage? Age in this Public Defense of what you're doing.
You don't
have to if you've been told that you're coming back. Am
I wrong? No, you're not, you're not wrong. But I think it's
the public, the publicity around the to that you're fighting
against, you know, he might feel comfortable from
what whatever the matter of family told them or mr. Tisch
told him, but he still understands there's a very
strong fan base and mediabase out here that follows
the Giants. That's questioning those things.
So that's where I think it's,
you know, defensive
or he's defensive with that.
The Giants.
It's a huge offseason. They got a lot of issues. There's no
doubt about it. You know, it's my team, you know, it's I'm
rooting for him. And
yeah, I'm a little biased because I know some of those
people there and I do have love for them. I do but
yeah, there's a lot of big questions. I mean, holy cow
offensive coordinator, quarterback head coach. Can
the head coach get things fixed out on the football team, you know,
all these things are real legitimate questions that I understand
and, you know, added
That that Joe judge is
not an ex offensive coordinator or defensive coordinator.
He's not a guy that's going to be able to walk into either one
of those rooms and go wait. We need to do this on this side of
the bar. We need to fix this on that side of the ball. He's
an overseer of all and here, as of late, you know, all hasn't
looked that great. And
that's where it's a bad look for the Giants, and Joe judge
at this moment, for sure.
- 10 net passing yards against the Bears, the first time
that's happened since Ryan Leaf with the Chargers in 1998
up. Now. Here's my, here's my cynical Theory. We say all
the time that the commissioner is the world's highest-paid
pincushion because he's the one that
takes the public slings and arrows
for all of the dysfunction and
whatever other misdeeds, actual, or alleged happen,
behind him on the part of the owners collectively.
Now,
you know, the more I think about the situation with
the Giants and ownership of the Giants and how the mayor has
like to
handle everything from behind the curtain. So they're not
the ones on the back pages of the tabloids, you know, to
a certain extent. Joe judge is the pin cushion. Dave,
gettleman or whoever the GM is going to be as depend
cushion. You never see John Mara
get vilified publicly. When the Giants
are circling the drain, it's always whoever the coach of
the GM. Is there are the ones who are the public scapegoat. It's
so when things are going poorly, we need to trot someone
out there to try to send our message. It's not going to be
John. Mara. It's going to be Joe judge and look what
happened between Sunday and Monday. It's not a good look
but at least
everyone is skewering.
Not John Mara,
but Joe judge, so that may be part of the overall strategy
here. It's always someone other than someone in ownership
that's getting destroyed by the media and the fan base. Yeah.
No, I mean, yes, I think that a At a,
at a national level,
you know, we're hearing the, you know, get them in and Joe
judge like you're talking about, but I can assure you up
here in the New York area. John Mayer has in the mara family or
they're getting crushed. They are,
you know, he got booed
at the retirement ceremonies,
you know, this year. I think it was the Eli one, right? Because
I don't even write, he talked against the Strahan want to get
the next one. He learned his lesson.
Well, he just do. He didn't want to distract from that and
get booed in front of the Strahan thing, but, you know,
No, the giant fans are not idiots. They understand who's
running the organization.
They are certainly
all over the angle of what you're talking about. As far as
head to the mara family. Does mr. Mehra, have his hand in the
cookie jar too much here.
And that's a legitimate question up here. So he's not
getting off the hook that way, but on a national level. Yeah,
maybe to a degree. There's no doubt. But man. Yes, the Giants
got issues.
They, they do, you know, and again, it, I understand, Joe
judge Mara's, they've made the mistakes. You know,
the product on the field. Certainly, not impressive.
I mean, they couldn't even block the Bears, the other day. They
can't even block up. So it's just
there's not one area. You look at right now with the Giants
and go. Oh, wow. There's a real bright spot. They can build on.
You know, they got some things that I like,
but there's a lot more question marks and answers right now. And
that's why it's going to be an unbelievable offseason, and
we'll see how this thing finishes out, you know, for
the, for the New York Giants,
but go ahead and Remote somebody from within
the current front office to be the new GM since, you know, only
Dave gettleman is responsible for evaluating and selecting
these players who can't get it. Done for the New York Giants,
have a feeling that they're going to continue
on this path of