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Vacchiano: Sources reflect on downfall of Joe Judge

Eric from BBI : Admin : 1/12/2022 9:06 am
Interesting tidbits in this article...



Sources reflect on surprising, rapid downfall of Joe Judge that led to his firing - ( New Window )
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Eric from BBI : Admin : 1/12/2022 9:09 am : link
“It was like he gave up,” said one source familiar with the Giants’ situation. “It was like he threw up his hands and said ‘I can’t work with this personnel.’ He’s not wrong. The team he has is terrible. But what coach does that?”
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JohninSC : 1/12/2022 9:10 am : link
In comment 15548235 Eric from BBI said:
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“It was like he gave up,” said one source familiar with the Giants’ situation. “It was like he threw up his hands and said ‘I can’t work with this personnel.’ He’s not wrong. The team he has is terrible. But what coach does that?”


That quote correlates to the 3rd and 9 QB sneak. He didn't even give the offense a chance.
"He brought this on himself"  
jeff57 : 1/12/2022 9:12 am : link
"We did everything we could for the man."
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BlueHurricane : 1/12/2022 9:14 am : link
In comment 15548248 jeff57 said:
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"We did everything we could for the man."


They sure did........ "Go win with this guy we just off the Bills practice squad"
Strahan  
Toth029 : 1/12/2022 9:15 am : link
Was very animated about Abrams being a GM candidate were Judge to stay. He knew the situation he has had and how the team wasn't going to improve at all if Mara promoted him.

I feel like the move needed done, while also firmly believing Joe got a raw deal. Slate swept clean now, and they need to make it right. Hopefully Mara stays out of the way.
Has one bad play call ever contributed this much to a coaches demise?  
armstead98 : 1/12/2022 9:16 am : link
That seems to be the point of no return for him, for good reason
RE: Has one bad play call ever contributed this much to a coaches demise?  
Victor in CT : 1/12/2022 9:20 am : link
In comment 15548256 armstead98 said:
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That seems to be the point of no return for him, for good reason


that was just the final straw. the loony 11 minute rant, the kick ass culture baloney, lack of player development/improvement et al. Everything shows itself eventually. He showed that the job was too big for him.
RE: Has one bad play call ever contributed this much to a coaches demise?  
AJ23 : 1/12/2022 9:23 am : link
In comment 15548256 armstead98 said:
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That seems to be the point of no return for him, for good reason


I was telling a friend the other night that I honestly believe Judge would still be here if not for that sequence. On the sideline after the 2nd sneak, there was a shot of Judge saying "c'mon man," or something to that effect. I really want to hear more about who the hell made that call and whether Judge was mad about it - or what happened for that to happen. It's mind boggling.
Holy moly  
Scooter185 : 1/12/2022 9:23 am : link
I'm literally speechless after reading that. I mean I could tell by watching that it was bad, but man was it -bad.
Judge  
OlyWABigBlue : 1/12/2022 9:23 am : link
comes off as a buffoon, but what I am afraid is going to get lost in this is how historically bad Gettleman was as a GM.
RE: Has one bad play call ever contributed this much to a coaches demise?  
FanMan : 1/12/2022 9:23 am : link
In comment 15548256 armstead98 said:
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That seems to be the point of no return for him, for good reason


Umm, Joe Pisarcik botched attempt to hand off the football to Larry Csonka aka "the Fumble".
It clearly is a lot of things  
jvm52106 : 1/12/2022 9:24 am : link
but this idea that Judge was saddled with a bad roster makes no sense. Judge clearly had a hand in the construction. The Giants spent a ton of money this offseason, they signed VET Olmen as pieces to the puzzle who decided that quitting / retiring was better than playing for Judge.

Judge lost this team with his poor in game strategy- long before we were on QB 3 and for his idiotic PC's that always seem to come from a stance of you the listener are uneducated in football and let me tell you why what you see is not really what you should be looking at. he came off as a guy who NEVER sees blame in himself, even when he says things like the Fish stinks from the head down, that is more telling you he holds himself to a higher degree than we do so don't question him.

I have NEVER soured on someone as much as I did Judge. His talk in the beginning, which is all we get with any new coach, was inspiring and was very directive, very confident and full of strong conviction, quickly became a sales pitch for an inferior product or worse a scam of a product that never really existed. He would have been great back in the 90's informercial days!

Judge  
stretch234 : 1/12/2022 9:24 am : link
The play call is all about perception - give the RB the ball and none of that is talked about. The problem is it came a week after his rant, which was the bigger issue.

As many others have said, you don't disparage others in your profession in public. That makes the organization look bad.

Losing on the field is one thing, putting a target on the organization publicly is different.

He did bring this upon himself and he had to go

It was the right call.  
mittenedman : 1/12/2022 9:25 am : link
I don't like celebrating a guy losing his dream job but I couldn't watch another season of that. Very thankful Mara did the right thing.
I liked the hire at the time but  
Del Shofner : 1/12/2022 9:28 am : link
it became clear he was in over his head. Just as well that he self-destructed sooner rather than later.
RE: Has one bad play call ever contributed this much to a coaches demise?  
mattlawson : 1/12/2022 9:30 am : link
In comment 15548256 armstead98 said:
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That seems to be the point of no return for him, for good reason


Jim zorn
RE: RE: Has one bad play call ever contributed this much to a coaches demise?  
section125 : 1/12/2022 9:31 am : link
In comment 15548274 FanMan said:
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In comment 15548256 armstead98 said:


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That seems to be the point of no return for him, for good reason



Umm, Joe Pisarcik botched attempt to hand off the football to Larry Csonka aka "the Fumble".


After Csonka told him to just keep it and fall on the ball...
GM candidates asking about Judge's status before agreeing to interview  
ij_reilly : 1/12/2022 9:32 am : link
No way Judge could be retained:

"Several of the GM candidates had asked Mara and Tisch if they were going to be forced to keep Judge before they agreed to an interview, according to NFL sources. They were told they weren’t, but maybe the owners saw the writing on the wall."

I don't think it was one bad play and I believe most won't either  
Dinger : 1/12/2022 9:43 am : link
(btw wasn't it TWO QB sneaks in a row?). It was the not winning and then these last FEW weeks, not even being competitive. You can say all you want about Glennon sucking, but we didn't have a game plan going into any of the games he started, that seemed like it was well thought out. When the weak game play didn't work we immediately abandoned it and went to a 'lets hope the defense scores' game plan. It was ridiculous. It felt like that from the Dolphins game on. I don't know how we score 21 against the Chargers(maybe they need a new HC as well). His rant added to the snowball. But there wasn't even progress from individual players. For a guy who preached teaching, it didn't seem like that was done. An OL that could NOT put together consecutive positive plays let alone positive series no matter WHO started. Like they said on GMFB, when the tough guy coaches go bad they go bad QUICKLY.
It wasn't just the sneak  
weeg in the bronx : 1/12/2022 9:49 am : link
As the story noted, he gve up in the Chicago game as well, refusing to throw the ball despite beign down by several scores.
It feels as if it was the right  
joeinpa : 1/12/2022 9:51 am : link
Call, letting him go, but he was dealt a bad hand here.

Last year he handled an extreme situation well, this year as thing spiraled toward futility he had no answers, don’t think there were any; those situations can lead to episode’s you regret, doesn’t mean the guy cannot coach.

But coaching for his career next season on a trial basis would not have been the way to go
Yes Judge was saddled with a horrible roster and injuries  
Mike from Ohio : 1/12/2022 9:53 am : link
But if the team had lost the way they lost the last 6 games he could have easily survived this. Mara was looking for a reason to keep him, and the roster and injuries gave him some cover. Everything could be laid at the feet of Gettleman.

Why Judge lost his job was his classless attacks against WFT and Shurmur, combined with him essentially quitting against the Bears and WFT in the last two weeks. He took a bad situation and turned it into an embarrassing situation. He did not need to do those things and nobody forced them on him.

He is young and will have a chance to rebuild his career, but he needs to start by realizing he lost his job in the last two weeks of the season by essentially showing no heart and no character.
Joe Judge...  
Brown_Hornet : 1/12/2022 9:55 am : link
...Johnny Lawrence?
Screw him  
HomerJones45 : 1/12/2022 9:58 am : link
he wasn't happy so he decided to throw repeated public tantrums.

The mystery here isn't that the owners fired him after hearing it from GM's; the mystery is why wasn't this child shit-canned on Sunday night.
We can't absolve DG  
Gmen703 : 1/12/2022 9:58 am : link
for Joe's failures. At least that's what it feels like the media is doing.
It was most certainly not one bad play  
Ten Ton Hammer : 1/12/2022 9:59 am : link
Boiling down the last six weeks to calling a QB sneak isn't looking at the situation completely.

It's a factor, but there's a laundry list of failures.
The Roster Sucks  
Bernie : 1/12/2022 10:01 am : link
But JJ's way to conservative approach and the unwillingness to acknowledge publicly what everyone else was seeing pretty much says it all.

Sadly for all of us, this is not a quick fix. Once again the Giants are in a tear it down and rebuild mode which means we will be lucky if they are competitive in the 2023 season, but more than likely it will be 2024 before we can think about winning. Awesome.
RE: Judge  
Gmen703 : 1/12/2022 10:01 am : link
In comment 15548273 OlyWABigBlue said:
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comes off as a buffoon, but what I am afraid is going to get lost in this is how historically bad Gettleman was as a GM.


Ding, fucking ding!! Give this person a Nat Sherman cigar!
RE: Judge  
Ten Ton Hammer : 1/12/2022 10:32 am : link
In comment 15548273 OlyWABigBlue said:
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comes off as a buffoon, but what I am afraid is going to get lost in this is how historically bad Gettleman was as a GM.


The record speaks for itself. 19-45. It's a .236 Win %. He was worse than Isaiah Thomas.
I hope the new coaches first statement is" if you show  
gtt350 : 1/12/2022 10:56 am : link
up to practise and your cleats don't fit then don't show up tomorrow"
RE: GM candidates asking about Judge's status before agreeing to interview  
bw in dc : 1/12/2022 11:00 am : link
In comment 15548315 ij_reilly said:
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No way Judge could be retained:

"Several of the GM candidates had asked Mara and Tisch if they were going to be forced to keep Judge before they agreed to an interview, according to NFL sources. They were told they weren’t, but maybe the owners saw the writing on the wall."


I actually posted this earlier this morning. Notice the words forced and before in that first sentence.

If true, and a majority of interesting candidates asked, this had to send a loud, serious message to Mara: we are not interested in what you are selling. So we'll look elsewhere instead...
this was obvious in watching  
GiantsFan84 : 1/12/2022 11:12 am : link
the giants weren't trying to win, at least not on offense. they gave up in terms of game plans and play calling. it was very very clear.
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UConn4523 : 1/12/2022 11:13 am : link
In comment 15548235 Eric from BBI said:
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“It was like he gave up,” said one source familiar with the Giants’ situation. “It was like he threw up his hands and said ‘I can’t work with this personnel.’ He’s not wrong. The team he has is terrible. But what coach does that?”


My main question here is, why all the punting past the 50 yard line? If you truly are done then why not try converting 4th downs in the opponents territory?

While it no longer matters, a lot of these reports don't add up for me.
Painfully conservative, completely turtling up  
JonC : 1/12/2022 11:14 am : link
trying to protect the offense from itself, basically.
The bad roster thing is an excuse  
ZogZerg : 1/12/2022 11:16 am : link
It was Bad COACHING all around.
The Backup QB, that I'm sure he had say in, comes in and looks like he never played in the NFL. Meanwhile that same QB played reasonably well for a shit Jags team the year before. God awful play design and play calling did the team in along with crappy coaches over their head.
gettleman and mara are lucky  
hitdog42 : 1/12/2022 11:18 am : link
that the QB sneaks and the 10 min speech helped to cover up the fact that the personnel and structural disaster of the organization almost is getting a pass due to the focus on the coach now.

joe judge did not do a great job-- but really his impact was just on how ugly the losses looked, not the losses themselves.

the roster was crap--- he had every right to be disgusted by it-- the whole construct and approach of the GM was a disgrace and wrong from day 1 in 2018. and here we are--- gettleman is getting his quiet ride off because judge imploded himself
RE: RE: GM candidates asking about Judge's status before agreeing to interview  
rsjem1979 : 1/12/2022 11:24 am : link
In comment 15548615 bw in dc said:
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In comment 15548315 ij_reilly said:


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No way Judge could be retained:

"Several of the GM candidates had asked Mara and Tisch if they were going to be forced to keep Judge before they agreed to an interview, according to NFL sources. They were told they weren’t, but maybe the owners saw the writing on the wall."




I actually posted this earlier this morning. Notice the words forced and before in that first sentence.

If true, and a majority of interesting candidates asked, this had to send a loud, serious message to Mara: we are not interested in what you are selling. So we'll look elsewhere instead...


If nothing else, hopefully this shows that Mara is actually listening.

A lot of us have been saying for a while that any worthwhile GM is going to consider whether or not he's inheriting a coach when making a decision about a job.

There isn't a single candidate outside of the building for whom Joe Judge would be considered a positive or even neutral factor in considering the Giants GM position. I'm certain it would have come up in conversations with any candidate, and if the Giants are serious about bringing in someone to oversee their entire football operation, Joe Judge couldn't have been part of the deal.
RE: The Roster Sucks  
Lines of Scrimmage : 1/12/2022 11:34 am : link
In comment 15548410 Bernie said:
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But JJ's way to conservative approach and the unwillingness to acknowledge publicly what everyone else was seeing pretty much says it all.

Sadly for all of us, this is not a quick fix. Once again the Giants are in a tear it down and rebuild mode which means we will be lucky if they are competitive in the 2023 season, but more than likely it will be 2024 before we can think about winning. Awesome.


Yes. We have to rebuild the rebuild. Hopefully acknowledging that is consistent throughout the franchise and we don't start applying band-aids.
Judge  
Sammo85 : 1/12/2022 12:31 pm : link
has had two years as HC to make critical decisions on personnel. Gettleman was not a good GM and depth was terrible but he also was deferential to coaches to a fault.

Judge took Garrett on. If he didn't like that, he could have turned the HC job down from get-go.

This mentality "some" fans have to find excuses for everything and portray highly compensated athletes or coaches as victims of the Giants organization is a bit nauseating.
I think he just broke under the pressure  
Sec 103 : 1/12/2022 12:40 pm : link
and he completely lost it... He may turn up somewhere, but it will be a very low percentage that he ever makes it to the HC ranks again, at least in the NFL...
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