Giants Settle on Judge after Rhule Heads to Carolina

It will be a day that will live in infamy in the minds of many Giants fans everywhere. The New York Giants settled on a new head coach Tuesday morning, but it wasn't the one many thought would come to the Big Apple.

Early Tuesday, Matt Rhule, the supposed favorite for the job, and media darling for that matter, opted instead to sign with the Carolina Panthers for a whopping $70 million over six years with full control of his staff.  According to various reports he phoned the Giants with whom he was to meet today, and asked them to match the Panthers offer.

They didn't, and Rhule signed with Carolina.

As a result, the Giants went ahead and signed former Patriots special teams and wide receivers coach Joe Judge to be the head coach of this football team.

 Joe Judge who virtually nobody outside of New England knows, and who comes to New York as another Bill Belichick wiz-kid disciple. How will this work out is anyone's guess, but one thing is certain the Giants don't look good.

This is not about passing on Matt Rhule as much as it about failing to even get the respect to garner an interview at the very least. The Giants job isn't nearly as attractive as many people once thought. Mike McCarthy left East Rutherford without a deal and signed with Dallas. Rhule spurned them before they even had a chance to meet him.

The Giants rolled the dice when they kept David Gettleman as the General Manager and putting him in charge of this coaches search has not produced the kind of fruit people had hoped.  His tenure has been an outright disaster.

As for Rhule, there is no telling whether losing him to the Panthers is going to come back to haunt the Giants or not. The Panthers are taking a big risk throwing all kinds of big money and power his way, especially to a coach who has never once coached an NFL game aside from serving as an assistant for one season. Rhule was a good college coach, but he coached a Baylor team that didn't beat a power five team, and lost two games at the end of this season to Oklahoma and Georgia and it wasn't even close.

Who knows what kind of NFL coach he will be, but if history is any indication he will struggle much the same way coaches like Chip Kelley, Steve Spurior and many others have struggled.

As for Joe Judge, he's the Giants coach, whether the fans like it or not. And it sounds like he is going to be a package deal with Jason Garrett as the Offensive Coordinator. We have yet to hear from the Giants or Judge about what his plans are, how he plans to develop quarterback Daniel Jones, and what kind of leader he is.

Judge might be a good coach one day. He might be a total bust. We will know soon enough. But on the outset, this feels like the Giants settled for less just to get the process over with rather than deal with the fact they got rejected.