Giants head coach Joe Judge needs to get the job done as he runs out of people to blame – The Denver Post

The Giants, who have won 23 of the 74 games they have played since the last time they had a winning record, have now decided that the only way to get things going in the right direction again is to fire their offensive coordinator. It reminds you of the old days at Yankee Stadium, where George Steinbrenner fired a pitching coach.

But this is not about Jason Garrett. From now until the end of the regular season, it’s about the head coach who loses his cover now. He is the one who owns everything that happens in the attack on the Giants the rest of the way, good or bad. The referee has to put some points on the board as much as Daniel Jones does.

Maybe the Giants can put it on Eagles Sunday, one of the teams ahead of them in the NFC East, as the Bucs said it on the Giants Monday night, before Garrett officially went under the team bus the next day. Or even better: the Giants need to put it on the Eagles.

Somehow we are always told that the Giants, no matter what their loss record is at any given time, are making a big step and here they come after the season. They have been rolled out by the Bucs and Rams and Cowboys, three of the best teams in their conference this season. Maybe they can start doing that against the 5-6 Eagles.

They go up against Jalen Hurts, who has thrown 13 touchdown passes so far and runs in eight more. They do so with Jones, who has thrown nine touchdown passes in 10 games. Maybe it’s this day he has a 300-yard passing game something pretty much everyone in the league can handle. Maybe this is the day the Giants can get past 30 points.

Maybe this is the day Jones does what star quarterbacks have to do in the NFL, meaning he takes his team down the field eventually to win the game. Maybe it will show Giants fans that firing Garrett can be the kind of dramatic, game-changing game that the Giants almost never make on offense. Maybe that will turn things around. No one would suggest that it will do for this Giants team what Jim Fassel’s playoff guarantee in 2000 did when the Giants made a big move that took them all the way to the Super Bowl. But maybe it will throw an accusation at them and into MetLife Stadium.

“Ultimately, I will make any decision based on what’s best for the team in the long run,” Judge said the other day, explaining himself much better than he did Monday night. “I feel we need to be more productive as an offensive. In general, the offense’s job is to score points. I do not think we score enough points. It is my job as head coach to make sure I give our players an opportunity to go out there and play. ”

Did the judge have the right to take this step? Of course he did. Does Garrett have a right to wonder how different it all could have gone with a really offensive line and more playmakers and Saquon Barkley still resembling the player he was as a rookie? Boy, does he ever. But arming the offense is up to Judge going forward, the former special team coach of the Patriots, who has such tremendous power at the Giants these days. For it is the same now with him as it is for all coaches in sports who portray their players as underperforming. At some point, you take a step back and ask this question:

Who exactly is coaching this underperforming team?

Here’s another question: If Joe Judge, who we were supposed to think was the next Belichick, was so upset he saw from Garrett and with the Jones and the Giants offense, then why did he not take control of it before? Which law was passed that he could not go to Garrett and tell him he wanted him to take a different approach. It may be because he does not know what the different approach should be. Maybe he knows it, if he sees it, from already Sunday.

There was a reason Bill Parcells wanted his old offensive coordinator, Ron Erhardt, right there on the sidelines. Because you know what he would do sometimes? Parcells would go to Erhardt and say, “Run the ball.”

The referee record as the Giants’ head coach is now 9-17. But we must always believe that the blame must go everywhere else. Daniel Jones. Dave Gettleman. The offensive line. Lack of talent on both sides of the ball. And finally Jason Garrett most of all.

The Giants have seven games left: Eagles, Dolphins, Chargers, Cowboys, Eagles again, Bears, Washington Football Team. Are there games that can be won on that schedule? If you’re a Giants fan, look at the schedule and ask yourself a question: How many fights do they have to win to make you think they’re going in the right direction again, for the first time since they were 11-5 under Ben McAdoo?

Gettleman has by no means done the job here, and will probably make things easy for John Mara and Steve Tisch when the season is over by retiring. He’s the easiest and biggest goal for where the Giants are, twenty-six fights inside Judge’s stewardship. There’s the idea before the Bucs game that the Giants are making a move, and now you look at the standings and see them in last place in the NFC East, without as good a win as the Washington Football Team had against Touchdown Tom and the Bucs.

They have had one winning season since the second Super Bowl against the Patriots. The last time they won the East was in the Super Bowl season. Other than that, they have only won as many as seven matches once. And perhaps worst of all is how consistently unmanageable they have become as they have gone from the great Tom Coughlin to McAdoo to Pat Shurmur now to Judge.

So here’s their chance on Sunday to prove that Judge really saved the Giants by firing Jason Garrett. Here’s the team’s chance, at home, to call the Eagles, score some points against one of the four loss records on the rest of the schedule, get to 4-7 in the Dolphins game.

“We have to make everything better,” Joe Judge said after the Bucs game.

Him first, starting Sunday at

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