Joe Judge sold us on his process, but ConorOrr says the illusion faded quickly. His thoughts on changes coming for the NY Giants:
The latest coach to be fired by the Giants after two seasons squandered the mysticism surrounding his "process" in a matter of weeks.In the NFL, there are smart people with legitimate processes who can defend their decision making by pointing to a previous history of success. Then, there are coaches who piggyback off the idea that everyone must have some kind of mystical process, and believe that by referencing such a thing it negates the need for any direct criticism.
Since Joe Judge’s arrival as coach of the Giants, we have been kept at an arm’s length from understanding his process. We only knew that he had one, or thought that he had one. He sold himself as a teacher, a from-the-roots culture changer who could clean a lot of those hard-to-reach places that the franchise had left cobwebbed since the halcyon days of Tom Coughlin.
This kind of early success tightens a coach’s grip on the unknown, making it harder to know what he actually has the hang of and enabling him to obscure what shortcomings get revealed publicly. When things are working, you don’t have to explain it. When people believe there is forward momentum, the benefit of the doubt follows like a trained show dog.Jon Durr/USA TODAY Sportsafter two seasons with a 10–23 record, squandered that mysticism faster than any coach in recent memory.
That obviously did not happen. Behind the scenes, there was absolutely unhappiness. There was a miserable coaching staff slogging into the abyss. But there was also a chance to save it all, to blame this season on injuries, to blame it on Dave Gettleman,
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