The future of head coach Joe Judge and quarterback Daniel Jones may have already been determined.
Hours before the Giants took the field in the their 34-10 blowout loss to the Philadelphia Eagles, reports surfaced Sunday that both Judge and Jones would be returning to Big Blue next season. ESPN's Adam Schefter originally reported the story.
In two seasons at the helm Judge is 10-21 as Giants head coach. Jones is currently out for the season with a neck injury that sidelined him a month ago in Week 12. One could argue that the Giants are easily the worst team in the NFL - not named the Jacksonville Jaguars.
It is still widely assumed that the Giants are going to part ways with General Manager David Gettleman, who could either be fired or forced to accept an early retirement. The Giants would certainly create a very odd situation for any potential GM candidates with both Judge and Jones firmly entrenched for 2022.
If one wants an example of how this kind of move can affect a franchise, look at the Jets, who in 2013 decided to fire Mike Tannenbaum, but keep Rex Ryan, and arrange a forced marriage between Ryan and John Idzik. That didn't work out at all. It was a total disaster.
Ideally a team would bring in a GM who would want to hire his own head coach.
The Giants could look to New England for a person familiar and comfortable with Judge, or, more likely, look internally for a candidate. The name Kevin Abrams, who is the club's long time assistant GM has come up as a possible replacement for Gettleman. An Abrams promotion certainly would not make Giants fans happy, as it would be viewed as an endorsement of the status quo.
Meanwhile, on the field, the Giants have lost four in a row, and their offense has gone completely stagnant; they haven't scored more than 21 points in a game since they beat the Las Vegas Raiders 23-16 in Week 10. With the combination of Jake Fromm and Mike Glennon under center, the Giants have scored only 46 points in their last four games, including the smackdown they suffered at the hands of the Eagles on Sunday.
The Giants were never in the game on Sunday. Fromm got the start and was awful, completing six of 17 passes for 25 yards. Saquon Barkley had only 32 yards on 15 carries, another woeful effort from the the former number 2 overall in the 2018 NFL Draft.
After the defense kept New York tied with Philadelphia 3-3 at the break, the Eagles figured things out in the third quarter, dropping 17-points on Big Blue to take a dominating 20-3 lead.
An interception of Fromm by Rodney McLeod set up shop for the Eagles at the Giants' 21-yard line. Three plays later, Boston Scott scored from three-yards out to make it 10-3.
Later in the quarter, a 39-yard completion from Jalen Hurts to Quez Watkins helped set up the first touchdown of the day, a three-yard plunge by Boston Scott to make it 20-3.
Perhaps the biggest indignation of the Giants' plight was when Alex Singleton picked off a Mike Glennon pass and rumbled 29-yards for a touchdown to give the Eagles a 34-3 lead.
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