Yahoo Autos Giants’ Joe Judge sounds like a man extremely confident in his job security
Joe Judge has had very little success over his first two seasons as New York Giants head coach and should be on the hot seat. In fact, multiple sportsbooks have him among the coaches most likely to be fired.
But Judge doesn’t want to hear about any of that.
Speaking with reporters during his weekly Zoom call on Monday, Judge indicated that he’s in no danger of losing his job. In fact, Judge said he would have never taken this job had he not been given some sort of guaranteed security long-term.
“I’ve said this from the beginning, I’m not interested in coming and having some kind of quick flash, I’m not interested in shortcuts, I’m not interested in quick fixes. I want to do this the right way and when I took this job, I made it very, very clear that I was only going to do this if we were all committed to doing this the right way and that’s been something that’s been very clear from ownership on down,” Judge said.
“I’m very happy with the support the ownership gives. Both families are tremendous people to work for and I know that this team is very, very important to them. To be honest with you, it’s their family business and football’s my family business, too. I take a lot of pride in what we do and the product is important to me not only in just the wins and losses, which ultimately in this business is the most important part, but it’s also how you do it and how you prepare and how you conduct yourself throughout the course of the week, how your team represents you on and off the field and how the players reflect what you’re trying to represent within that community and the city you represent.”
Judge then said he wouldn’t answer another question about hypothetical job security — his or anyone else’s.
“Let me make this really perfectly clear, my or anybody else’s hypothetical future, I’m never going to comment (on). Does everybody understand that? Point blank,” Judge said. “So, you can ask me about Pat Graham, not going to answer you. You can ask me about Jerome Henderson, not going to answer you. You can ask me about a number of coaches, I’m not going to answer. I’m not going to answer about myself either. I’m not going to speak on hypotheticals. I’m interested in building this team and moving forward.”
And that, as they say, is that.
Judge is clearly confident enough to say what he has to say knowing he’s safe and knowing his staff is safe. The fate of general manager Dave Gettleman may be up in the air, but it sure doesn’t seem like Judge is going anywhere.
