Everyone Might Be Wrong

By Jeff Altman, The Big Game Hunter

Everyone has an opinion about what to do.

They might be wrong.

They might be wrong over the short term and rIght over the long-term.

For example, Joe Judge was hired as the head coach of the New York Football Giants a little over a year ago. Shortly after that, the pandemic hit in the only way you can meet with his players was over Zoom.

No in-person practices.

Relatively few online meetings.

He had never been the head coach before and came from a great organization (New England) but was a special-teams coach. Only one other head coach came from that part of the leadership of the team. He was not a safe hire.

By the time the team was allowed to practice, the Judge had implemented a few rules that struck others as “bizarre motivational techniques.”

For example, if a player made a mistake, he was made to run laps. As one player said, “I haven’t had to do this since middle school).

Two retired players commented that it was “imbecilic” and that “when it ends, it’s going to end badly.”

The Giants were not expected to be a good team last year. They lost their first six games and eventually finished 6–10, good for second…