All Eyes on Sunday, Tuesday Notes

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The Tuesday before the Super Bowl is not exactly what you’d call a hotbed for football news. All eyes are on Sunday when Joe Burrow’s Bengals will face off against Matthew Stafford and the Rams on their home turf in Los Angeles. Most of the Tuesday news in previous weeks centered around coaching vacancies, but those have all been filled at this point for the most part. Media week at the Super Bowl is the biggest story in sports this week, and there’s not a whole lot else going on in football besides that. Still, that doesn’t mean yesterday was completely devoid of all news – although, truth be told, there really wasn’t a whole lot going on – so let’s dig into everything that happened across the league.

Patriots Bring Back Joe Judge as an Assistant

With former offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels taking the head coaching gig in Las Vegas, the Patriots hired former Giants coach Joe Judge as an offensive assistant. Judge is familiar with the Bill Belichick system, having worked as a special teams coordinator and wide receivers coach in New England from 2012-19. His tenure as the lead man in New York was a complete disaster, and Judge became notorious throughout the league for his method of coaching, which can be described as hard-nosed at best and infantilizing at worst. Still, the Pats do need to rebuild their offensive staff with McDaniels gone, and Belichick has earned the benefit of the doubt given his track record over the past two decades. It’s unclear who will call plays for the Patriots right now.

Giants Hire Wink Martindale to Replace Patrick Graham

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Giants DC Patrick Graham joined the…