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First-year Giants coach Joe Judge makes players run in response to mistakes made during practice. Judge takes some heat for that.
Hall of Fame tight end Shannon Sharpe said, for example, “This will not end well. ”
Former NFL receiver Brandon Stokley, who played for the Broncos in 2009 when Josh McDaniels arrived as head coach, did not mention the situation.Josh McDaniels 2.0. ”
On Tuesday, judges responded to the external criticism.
“Everything we do has a purpose, ”Judge said. ‘And we’re very intent on explaining to our team why we do things we do. I’m a big believer in training our team in the reason we do things. That we are not just blindly shrugging off, trying to move forward and enforce punishment. I explained the other day, if you make mistakes on the field, there are consequences. In the game, it’s the penalty yard. In practice, we need to understand that there are consequences for mistakes. This is not a punishment. It is a reminder that we need to draw our attention and be more detailed about how we approach things. ”
But consequences and punishment are basically the same thing. Punishment has several purposes; Judge punishes those who make mistakes to limit the players who made the mistakes and others who witness the aftermath of a mistake from doing something similar in the future.
Whatever the label, the goal is to persuade players not to make mistakes during games, to avoid the penalty / consequences that apply in this regard: Penalties. And that’s one of the things Patriots coach Bill Belichick, a Joe Judge mentor, feels strongly about. Penalty yards provide free field goal advantages for the opposing team, and Belichick has no interest in giving the opponent that kind of edge.
That Belichick, as Simms mentioned on Tuesdays PFT Live based on his time in New England as a non-player, that kind of does things. Belichick’s success leaves him with it.
And this is one of the reasons why former Belichick assistants often wrestle when they leave. Unless and until they win, the hard-ass (is it hyphened?) Approach will not necessarily be embraced, especially by a locker room full of players unfamiliar with those tactics, which explains why they performed poorly enough that the last coach was fired, making the opening for the Belichick assistant.
Win and they will buy. Lose and they will grumble. And the media will too; especially if / when the hard-ass tactic manifests in the way they are treated.
Many former Belichick assistants may not even realize they are doing something else. It’s exactly what they’ve been witnessing in their time with Belichick, so it’s what they have recorded. However, it is critical that they understand that it can be an all-in bet that requires a winning hand sooner rather than later, or the coach risks losing his team first and then losing his job.
