New York Giants stuck in vicious firing cycle, ready for complete makeover – New York Giants Blog

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Round and round we go. The New York Giants spin in their own muck and every two years they seem to find themselves standing in the same spot with another head coach fired.

This time it was Joe Judge who had the indignity of losing his job Tuesday after working with an insufficient roster. Meanwhile, general manager Dave Gettleman, the chef buying the groceries and in part responsible for the demises of Judge and his predecessor, Pat Shurmur, was allowed to gracefully retire a day earlier.

The Giants are stuck in this vicious cycle — with their past three coaches lasting two seasons or less — and co-owners John Mara and Steve Tisch are responsible for the carnage. It has been one mistake after another, with plenty of losses left behind.

The Giants are the worst team in the NFL over the past five seasons with a 22-59 record. All they have to do to see what a bad franchise looks like is peer into a mirror.

A 4-13 record this season prompted the firing. Judge went 6-10 in 2020 as a first-time head coach in a season that was lauded by ownership after the team seemed to make significant gains as it progressed. Judge talked in recent weeks about all the gains made behind the scenes and being closer to respectability than the outside world realized.

Ownership apparently disagreed, and there was a quick about-face.

“I said before the season started that I wanted to feel good about the direction we were headed when we played our last game of the season,” Mara said in a statement. “Unfortunately, I cannot make that statement, which is why we have made this decision.”

It’s not to say Judge isn’t also to blame for his own demise. If the Giants had simply lost respectably late this season he probably would still have a job. But they not only couldn’t score (they topped 10 points once in the last six games with backup quarterbacks) but they could barely even drop back to pass like a functioning NFL team.

Judge also incited the masses by rambling for 11…