with Joe and
I've learned a lot from him,
you know, about the game and,
you know, we'll continue to work and continue to,
you know, grow in our communication. And I love coach
judge is a is a great leader.
Extremely smart coach. I've always thought he's an amazing
Coach, and he's allowed me to flourish that much more
since I've been here.
Yeah. So basically, this is this locket,
Was basically 100% behind judge.
That's what I believe. Yes. We showed up today. Everybody
showed up and you know, we listen to them. And you know,
we believe that he has a plan for us to grow as a team and as
individuals.
That's not what I understand. My understanding is the locker
rooms divided on Joe judge as coach of the Giants. The
problem is ownership likes him and ownership Shireen.
I believe is very sensitive to the reality that they've ripped
through coaches
every two years.
It went from been McAdoo.
I mean, it really wasn't that long ago in the grand scheme of
things that he showed up for his press conference in that
big-ass suit. Remember that? That wasn't that long ago. Six
years ago. We had been McAdoo for two years. We had Pat
Shermer for two years. We've had Jojo
For two years and my understanding is that ownership
is going to let
the next GM make the call. And
that means whoever the next GM is is going to be critical
to it. If it's
promotion of Kevin Abrams, which many believe is going to
happen. Although I don't understand why. If Dave Gelman
wasn't getting it done.
You promote his top Lieutenant into that job.
I don't get that.
Or if it's somebody who's tied to
Judge by way of relationship, shared experience in New
England, that kind of thing, then it points to judge. If
they end up hiring, somebody's got no ties to judge
whatsoever. That doesn't bode well for Joe judge, but
that's going to be the first step and and given the clumsy
way that they handled the Dave gettleman retirement and it's
a decision. He's made in the past few days. I mean, give me
a break, we've known for weeks that he's out. So this may all
be just some sort of a ruse
to make it look like
it isn't all preordained it is.
All predetermined. It isn't a job that's already
been concluded and they're working backward. I think
what's going to happen is they're going to end up hiring
a GM
that fits the profile of somebody who is content to
stick with Joe judge and they're going to move forward
and just like the Dolphins just like the Bears, dysfunction is
going to continue.
Well, Mike, I have to be honest, over the last two
weeks, some things that Joe judge have has done, have done.
It prompted, a question for me. Does he want to be fired? Does
he want to be there? And in my mind, he's not a couple things
that makes you think he was trying to get fired. You go
back to the clown speech. This is not a
clown organization
calling out coaches from other teams. Ron Rivera
didn't like what he said about about his team
and then you look at the quarterback sneak.
On what was it? Third and 39 is zoned for. They were trailing 3
to nothing know. Who does that. Like that's just stupid. Like
who calls for a quarterback sneak down there? It just made
no sense to Mammy run a play. This is a guy who's an, who in
his opening press conference,
said we're going to play with the Relentless Relentless
competitive attitude. That's not a Relentless competitive
attitude when you have nothing to play for in York on
a quarterback sneak,
just ridiculous. So I did wonder that. Does he even want
the job? Job to me, that's a big question. That needs to be
asked by whoever the GM, is
his explanation for that play. If we want to show it again,
you know, it was basically they needed some room so they could
pie, that's something you do, Dom if you're in it.
If, but
it's dumb in that setting because who cares? If you get
your punt blocked who gives a crap at that point, the game is
meaningless. It's something that has meaning, if you're in
a game that still has relevance to your post season standings,
if the situation and the circumstances call for
I kind of think, I mean, this is the kind of Bill Belichick
move that we would praise because he would use it in
the right game at the right moment, under the right conditions, at
the right time,
when Joe judge does it, it just looks cookie. Because there's
who cares? If you don't have enough room for your punter,
the game doesn't matter.
It's over. You're going to line up in this weird reverse
Flying, Wedge formation to try to jam the ball. Like, like
I've been planning to do this for three years under the right
circumstances and I haven't used it yet and I'm going to
go ahead and use it in sure.
Nobody else smart. I am
it really is strange,
and you tie that together with his press conference from last
Sunday. His 11-minute diatribe his comments. From last Monday.
We're essentially admitted to tampering. Although,
you know, the prevailing thought is it was all a bunch
of BS and he really doesn't have guys who used to play for
the Giants, calling them up saying, I want to come back.
It's just it's odd to me because he's not behaving like
somebody
who believes he's safe
or wants to be safe or both.
Well any other thing Mike
I think that it's damning for him is when you look at how
the Jaguars the Texans, the Lions really fought to the finish
yesterday, had nothing to play for two of those three teams,
one
and the Giants then do that to me. They didn't look like
a team that was playing to win. They were, they weren't running
the plays that the lions were running the flea-flicker,
the Texans ran to kind of get back in that game. They weren't
doing any of that type of stuff to try
to win
a game. That was me. Unless instead, they're running
quarterback, sneaks on Third and nine. So, you know, I
that tells me that the
it makes me question whether the players really want, Joe,
judge back.
Hey, the Dolphins on the Dolphins they had to the delay
for. That's a bit, the Patriots. Yep. Yeah.
And their coach got fired.
Hey
II love covering the NFL because you have
multibillion-dollar football operations
that are staffed with people who have devoted their lives to
To understanding your craft and being as good as they can be.
And then these teams are owned by
monarchies. Basically,
people who have made billions and other lines of business to
actually think it's easier than it looks. And they don't know
what the hell they're doing, and that disconnect between
ownership. That doesn't know what the hell it's doing with
no buffer with no safeguards and no board of directors,
other than in Green Bay
and you get these broad sweeping decisions that are
made on impulse when you juxtapose that against all
the money and all the time and all the investment.
In the football operation, there's nothing else like it.
Other than professional sports and I think the NFL is the most
shining / glaring example of it.