EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ – New York Giants coach Joe Judge has made clear how he thinks the Philadelphia Eagles handled the fourth quarter of Sunday night’s loss to the Washington Football Team, a result that kept his team out of the playoffs said: He was not happy.
Judge describes his conviction that it will be disrespectful to his players and the entire league – who have made tremendous sacrifices to make this difficult season happen – if they go out and do not try to compete for 60 minutes to try to win a game.
“We will never do that as long as I am the head coach of the New York Giants,” Judge said Monday at the end of a two-minute response to a question about whether he thinks the Eagles did something wrong.
Philadelphia put third-quarterback Nate Sudfeld in the game for the fourth quarter of what was then a three-point game. Coach Doug Pederson insisted he was ‘coaching to win’ and said his decision-making will not be influenced by the NFL draft position in 2021.
Washington won the game 20-14 to eliminate the Giants from the post-season. Washington consequently won the NFC East.
Judge said he had not yet spoken to Pederson about what came down. Instead, he would let the Eagles talk about it in terms of how they approached the game.
The Giants coach said he sat in his office preparing for a possible playoff game with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers while Philadelphia-Washington was in the background. But he seems to be noticing exactly what’s going on.
“It’s clear that players have been asking me through the course of the day, and I just can not express that one thing we have to keep in mind this season is that there were a lot of people who signed up this season. OK, we reported a lot of people. Coaches, players, family members too, “Judge said.” So to look at a group of grown men I asked to give my day-to-day out and empty the tank , then I can look them in the eye and ensure that I will always do everything I can to put them in a competitive advantage and play in a strong position.
“To me, you never want to disrespect those players and their efforts and disrespect the game. The sacrifices they made to come to work and test every day before they come in, to sit in meetings, to wear masks and to protect the masks, to use extended protocols, to travel in unconventional ways, to receive text messages at 6:30 in the morning telling them that the exercise is going to be canceled, we need to do a virtual day, to If your family is not left for Thanksgiving, please do not avoid Christmas gatherings. We know it’s your wife’s birthday. Let’s make sure we postpone this one to the off-season. There are a number of sacrifices made by all the players and coaches in this league were made.number of sacrifices that are also related to the family members and people.
‘To despise the effort that everyone made to make a success of the National Football League this season, to despise the game by going out there and not competing for 60 minutes and doing everything to the players to help win, we will never do. that as long as I’m the head coach of the New York Giants. ‘
Judge began his answer by noting that the giants (6-10) had 16 chances of their own this season and said that you never want to leave your fate in the hands of someone else.
This is what they did in this situation. New York had to beat Dallas Sunday afternoon (which the Giants did 23-19), and then hope the Eagles can upset Washington at night. That did not happen, in part because the Eagles had a fairly large contingent for the game and then rookie fullback Jalen Hurts sat on the bench late.
“So we are not going to make excuses as an organization,” Judge said. “Not now, never either. We had our opportunities. ‘
That was the message he also uttered to his players during a Monday morning meeting. A handful of players who spoke to the media had a similar sentiment, despite a very different tone on social media during the match. It was clear that this was on the judge’s orders.
Safety Jabrill Peppers said he is not angry. He used a similar line to never want to leave your fate in another man’s hands.
“We had 16 chances to make it happen,” Peppers said, a line very similar to what Judge said later in the day.
Peppers and a number of other Giants players also despised insignificant feelings towards the Eagles. They also publicly avoided saying that next season’s match with their rivals from the NFC East will be surrounded due to this incident.