On August 1, Joe Judge said good morning, answered questions for about 10 minutes, stepped out from behind the microphone, and said: During his last two years with the Giants, media sessions like this were a routine occurrence for judges, buthis new role with the Patriotsis a rarity for judges these days.
The Giants and Patriots will begin their preseason schedules Thursday night at Gillette Stadium. He was fired by the Giants after two years on his five-year contract. After being hired as head coach in January 2020, he surprised everyone at his debut press conference at his no-nonsense 38-year-old. Bill Parcells atmosphere.
Judges said that in 2020 he was 6-10 and the arrows were pointing up for him, but in 2021 the Giants were 4-13 and in his final six games. His career trajectory took a nosedive when he lost disastrously after quarterback. Daniel Jones has been sidelined with a neck problem. Co-owner John Mara said he believes there are good head coaches among the judges, butcleaned the house and it turned out to be the new general manager — Joe Shane. Turns out — felt like he needed to be able to have an important say in who he wanted as the new head coach.
Judge came to the Giants after spending eight years in England, where he spent primarily as a special teams coordinator for the Patriots. He's back with Bill Belichick and the Patriots in the role of offensive assistant and quarterback coach, which means he'll be coaching his Mac Jones, but looking at the Giants, there's a lot more going on. Thoughts and memories are sure to come back.
"You have to learn all the time or you're just wasting your time," Judge said last week. Where I am now and what I'm going to do with the knowledge I'll apply in the game going forward...I'm 100% focused on 2022 and the Patriots and players."
The Giants have made a difference, but there aren't many cataclysms they can achieve in a year. He's six players scheduled to start on offense and nine on defense this season, a holdover from Judge's Giants days.
"We talked sometimes," said linebacker Blake Martinez. “He has always been a great person to me and a great coach. I have always looked up to him. "What happened? He played his first two seasons at Judge and, just like that, in the next coaching regime headed by Brian Dabor.
We need to be prepared," Thomas said. , the judge is in a high-profile location. He moved from Jones (Daniel) to another (Mac), and his very early return from Foxboroughshowed that the Patriots offense didn't come out of the shoot immediately. Judge, the Giants' head coach, had a quarterback coach and an offensive coordinator who worked with Daniel Jones. At the Patriots, Judge He's with Mac He Jones 24/7.
," Mac Jones said. “You have to trust it. But at the end of the day, we're going to get it and make this work. We have coaches who have been with us, and we need to see how they see us and unite and rule together.”