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Immediately after their 4-13 season, the New York Giants started cleaning house. General manager Dave Gettleman retired and the team fired head coach Joe Judge, citing disappointment with the team's direction in its announcement of the decision. The Giants extended their playoff drought to five years.
Team CEO John Mara addressed the Giants' tumultuous season in a press conference that was not shown on television or streamed, Mara called the process of telling Judge he was fired “gutwrenching” but admitted that the team was in need of a fresh start.
John Mara: "we've gone through this process far too often in recent years after having a lot of years of stability… there's nothing more painful to me than making that long wall down the hallway to tell somebody, especially a good person like Joe, that we're making a change"
— Madelyn Burke (@MadelynBurke) January 12, 2022
New York, indeed, is in dire need of a new regime. The team was embarrassingly awful in Gettleman's tenure and has a bleak outlook in the future. The Giants have a handful of promising young players — Andrew Thomas, Azeez Ojulari, Kadarius Toney and Xavier McKinney, to name a few — but have several large holes in key areas of the roster like the starting quarterback, offensive line and head coach.
Judge helped dig his own grave in Week 18 with the cowardly decision of running quarterback sneaks deep in New York's own territory. Mara politely disavowed the decision. Judge's tough-talking aways amounted to 10 wins in two seasons, and it made him the third-straight Giants coach to be fired within two seasons.
The Giants have begun searching for a new general manager. Whoever they hire will have the benefit of two top-10 draft picks but will have a lot of areas to patch up in order to make New York a good team.
