The New York Giants made a rather bizarre head-coaching hire on Tuesday, electing to roll with New England Patriots wide receivers coach and special teams coordinator Joe Judge.

Patriots head coach Bill Belichick had very high praise for his now-former assistant when asked about him on Wednesday:

“Joe has done an outstanding job. He's an excellent coach,” said Belichick, according to Paul Schwartz of The New York Post. “He understands the game well, works extremely hard and is a very good teacher of fundamentals. Joe picks up concepts and coaching points quickly. He is an exceptional leader and one of the best coaches I have been around. He has been responsible for coaching units comprised of nearly every player on the roster. That requires an ability to handle many moving parts, make constant adjustments and immediate decisions.”

Joe Judge initially joined New England's organization back in 2012, taking a job as a special teams assistant, a post he held through 2014. He was then elevated to special teams coordinator in 2015 before also taking on wide receivers coach duties this past season.

Prior to jumping to the NFL, the 38-year-old spent three years as a graduate assistant at Mississippi State from 2005 through 2007 and spent a year as Binghamton-South's linebackers coach in 2008.

However, his most notable achievement on the collegiate level was spending three seasons under Nick Saban as a special teams assistant at the University of Alabama.

The Giants went just 4-12 this season, resulting in the firing of Pat Shurmur after two unsuccessful years at the helm.