Thursday, August 5, 2021

Giant Signs of Dysfunction?

So I'm sure by now unless you live under a rock you've heard about the team brawl in Giants practice earlier this week. Everyone has talked about it and the opinions have ranged from Judge overreacted to, this team is a few losses from firing Judge. Well before that fight, and since that fight some facts have come to light that might actually prove that this fight is a sign of deeper problems. 

This fight likely wouldn't seem like anything to worry about if it was the first odd occurrence that leaked to media under the Judge regime. However this is actually at least the 3rd in less than a calendar year, and counting some news I'll get to later on at least the 4th piece of news in the last 7 days from Giants camp none of it positive. Most will remember when last year Joe Judge, and his o line coach former NFL player Marc Colombo actually wound up in a physical altercation resulting in Colombo being fired the following day. Then last week news came out that Kelvin Benjamin a former first round draft pick at wide receiver under current GM Dave Gettleman was trying to transition to tight end under Judge a one time wide receivers coach, was cut after another heated altercation with coaches. Just days later a team wide brawl took place with Daniel Jones somehow on the bottom of the scrum. That's what led to the latest news proving there is dysfunction in New York. 

Two relatively young players signed on Saturday, less than one week ago both eagerly putting pen to paper in an effort to continue their playing careers have hung it up rather than play for the Giants in 2021. The first player Todd Davis was signed to compete for a starting role as a MLB in the Giants defense. Davis turned 29 years old less than 3 months ago on May 17th. He had minor injury issues the previous two seasons but nothing he couldn't return from, and had played in 25 of a possible 32 games with 20 starts. The 4 year starter for Denver walks away with 96 games, and 69 starts under his belt. 

He wasn't the only player to say no thank you following the brawl as veteran lineman Joe Looney also called it quits after signing Saturday in an effort to compete for a starting spot. Looney had signed on after spending 2016-2020 with the Cowboys including 2 seasons as their starting center. The former 4th round pick made it 8 seasons with 103 games played and 41 starts at guard, or center in other words at worst a very quality depth piece. But he decided he would rather retire than play for big blue. So what's going on that has freshly signed players retiring or mouthing off, after coaches had previously done the same is Joe Judge that bad?? 


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