It remains to be seen whether the 2-5 Giants will be buyers or sellers. But, according to head coach Joe Judge, they won’t mortgage the future to try and salvage the season. 
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“I always think long-term,” Judge said (via NFL.com). “Sometimes, long-term can come in a move you can make immediately at this point, but I’m always thinking long-term. I’ve said this from the beginning, I’m not about taking shortcuts into anything. I’ve made it very clear in terms of my vision of the team and where I want to build it. It’s being built for long-term success.”
December will mark Dave Gettleman‘s four-year anniversary as the Giants GM, if he makes it that far. The G-Men have won four, five, and six games in each of Gettleman’s seasons at the helm and 2021 is not shaping up to be a major improvement. A big trade could conceivably save his job — as well as Judge’s — but the head coach insists that they won’t sacrifice future draft ammo for a few extra wins this year.
“Whether you’re going through free agency, trades, draft, whatever it may be, to me, you’re always looking down the road in terms of…not where you are immediately, but where do you have to get to,” Judge said. “That’s my perspective on that.”
The trade deadline falls on Nov. 2, leaving seven days for the Giants to make a mid-season deal.
who is Joe Judge going to blame when he misses the playoffs this year with an overwhelmingly losing record?
So far, he has seemed to accept blame so I would assume he would say it was his and his coaching staffs.
No doubt Gettleman and the talent evaluators of his needs to go so that they start building a better base of talent especially while they are picking so low each and every draft….and with a new GM, typically you see a change in coach and staff so that may be coming soon.
Lol. They don’t have a more recent picture of this guy?
I think that a full housecleaning is coming. New GM who will bring in their new choice coaching staff.
I think we have seen what we will see of Daniel Jones. Some flashes. Mobile. Mistake and fumble prone. He could be a “good enough” QB to win a SB like Jeff Hostetler or Trent Dilfer, but the other parts have to be improved to give him that status. Dilfer, for instance, enjoyed the benefits of a good running game, a very good o-line, the top kicker in the league, and – oh yeah – probably one of the top 3 defenses of the past 40 years.
One or two moves won’t fix this team. Both the o-line and the d-line need an overhaul. You need to be able to protect your QB and pressure the opponent’s QB.
Jones will likely get another year. It may not be a secure year, with another QB behind him or with NYG evaluating one, but I think he will be on the roster next year under a new GM or a new coach and GM.
Judge I think will likely be around one more season at least, but Gettleman looks to be gone. Hopefully for Jones and the Giants, Garrett will be as well. He did show a few things that Jones could do well, but he hasn’t put together a consistent enough gameplan to utilize it. Some of that is on Jones, but between the two, Garrett has lesser potential.
Is Aaron Rodgers coming to New Jersey? I can’t think of any other big trade that could possibly save Gettleman’s job.
If Dave Gettleman hired Joe Judge as coach, he should get another year. If someone else had more input than Dave in hiring Joe, then Dave should be gone
Honestly, I think Joe Judge is a really good coach, so whomever hired him and had a big part in it deserves to stay.
Wow, an actually thoughtful, rational comment. Kudos bud, I don’t read many on here..
I imagine most of your time is spent in the baseball forum. It would be nice to see the Braves stick it to those arrogant Astros.
Seconded.
I don’t know whether or not Judge is a good coach but he does seem like an upstanding guy who may just have inherited an impossible situation. You can’t make an omelette without eggs, and that roster has a lot of broken, empty shells.
True enough. I guess we’ll see if he throws his hands up and says that he needs to pick his own guys to win, or if he’s content to try and work with Gettleman. If Gettleman takes the hit and is fired, would Judge (who I think could stay) pick his new GM, or try to angle for more control over the roster? It would probably be best to run with a new GM over Judge (that he can still work with well) if Gettleman goes, but you never really know what owners are being told by their associates.
It appears to me that the first order of business is to fix the offensive line. They’ve got Thomas, Peart, Lemieux, Bredeson and Gates under contract for next year, but beyond Thomas and maybe Peart, how may of them project as starters? I’d probably use at least two and maybe three of their five picks in the 1st through 3rd rounds on the OL, or maybe trade back in the first round to pick up another Day 1 or Day 2 pick and use that on the OL, too.
I 100% agree.
Love the Patriots picture haha
I can’t believe some of the comments about Jones. His offensive line is currently minus three of last years starters. He is minus Barkley and has not played one game with all the starting receivers playing together. How can you make any evaluations when the QB is constantly under pressure and his wide outs are not consistently making separation.?