The Judge Rules

Even with all of this distance training, the differences between Joe Judge's staff and other Giant coaching staffs we've observed is that they seemed far more involved in the draft, "we wanted to coach him,"  and really believe is NFL level player development.  While it certainly seemed like Coughlin and Shurmur were involved in the drafts while they were head coaches, and Mouse McNally was involved in OL selections when Fassel was the head coach, but the assistants have never seemed this involved before. After the draft, Chris Pettit commented on the unusually great mesh between the coaches and scouts this year. Parcells used to complain that he didn't get to shop for the groceries. Judge helps push the cart.

So Judge and company helped pick the groceries.  After the draft, Judge was asked about the pass rush. The scribes have been giving Dave Gettleman grief about his "there's more than one way to skin a cat" description of the pass rush. Now it seems that Judge might have given him that impression.  Just pointed out the Tiki and Tierney that 2 of the better pass rushers in the league had started out as Long Snappers. In other words: he expects players to develop at the pro-level.  Since the CBA that rolled back practice time, that has seemed hard to do. But, Judge has only been in the league post that deal, and seems to believe there is still time to grow the players. That's a great attitude and let's hope he and his teacherly coaches can get some of that done.

The Giants are not without pass rush potential - they are just low on sacks, relative to the league and Giants history. Also, Graham likes to blitz more than anyone we've had since John Fox. We'll see how that works out.