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Getty Images The Giants’ search for a defensive coordinator has gotten underway with a call to the Dolphins. NFL Media reports that the Giants have requested permission to interview Dolphins defensive coordinator Patrick Graham for the same job on Joe Judge’s staff. The expectation is that...

Getty Images The Giants hired their new head coach Joe Judge suddenly and before anyone realized their coaching search was finished, in part because of competition not from an NFL team, but from a college team. According to Giants owner John Mara, Mississippi State was making a strong push for...

Getty Images Considering his background is special teams, new Giants coach Joe Judge figured to put an emphasis on that area. And he must have liked what he saw there. According to Pat Leonard of the New York Daily News, Judge is retaining incumbent Thomas McGaughey as his special teams...

Getty Images The Giants were impressed by the recommendation they got on new coach Joe Judge from his old boss, Bill Belichick. But the referral Belichick got from another coach also carried some weight. Via Tom Rock of Newsday, Giants co-owner John Mara said that Alabama coach Nick Saban...

Getty Images New Giants head coach Joe Judge is getting a contract that supposedly offers him job security, but in reality offers him no more security than his just-fired predecessor. The Giants gave Judge a five-year contract, Adam Schefter of ESPN reports, and don’t want any more...

Getty Images After the end of the regular season, Eli Manning said that all options were on the table for the future but that he didn’t think he’d be returning to the Giants as a backup quarterback to Daniel Jones in 2020. Giants co-owner John Mara said on Friday that there are other ways that...

Getty Images As Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels interviews for the head-coaching vacancy in Cleveland, whether he gets any job in the current cycle comes down to one and only one shot, barring a delayed-reaction firing, retirement, or resignation. The Panthers and Giants wanted...

The Giants raised some eyebrows when they settled on Joe Judge as their choice to replace Pat Shurmur as the team’s head coach and reactions haven’t been uniformly positive since word of the move broke on Tuesday. Judge was officially introduced at a press conference on Thursday and one of the...

Getty Images The Panthers made Matt Rhule an offer he couldn’t refuse to become their head coach, but he did see if the Giants would match it before agreeing to the job in Carolina. Rhule was scheduled to interview with the Giants on Tuesday, but never came in to meet with the team after...

Getty Images In the NFL, there’s a correlation between running the ball a lot and winning. At the end of any season, if you look up the teams that ran the ball the most, you’ll generally see that those teams won a lot. And if you look up the teams that passed the ball the most, you’ll generally...

Getty Images Joe Judge may have at least one assistant with NFL head coaching experience on his first Giants staff. Jordan Raanan of ESPN.com reports that Judge is expected to speak with former Browns head coach Freddie Kitchens about being part of the team’s offensive staff. Judge and...

Getty Images There’s still one vacancy, and Eric Bieniemy has already interviewed for it. But the Chiefs offensive coordinator is close to missing out on another window of opportunity for a head coaching job, at a time of growing concerns about the lack of progress for minority candidates. “I...

Getty Images The Giants made their choice for a new head coach on Tuesday and it was former Patriots special teams coordinator Joe Judge rather than Ravens defensive coordinator Don “Wink” Martindale. Martindale interviewed with the Giants last weekend as Baltimore had a bye after taking the...

Getty Images Every year, names emerge in the media as potential head-coaching candidates. Every year, the NFL’s Career Development Advisory Panel creates a list of candidates for distribution to the teams. Per a source with knowledge of the list, a total of 23 names appeared on it for the...

Getty Images Word came on Tuesday that the Giants would be hiring Joe Judge as their next head coach, but the team held off on making an official announcement through the end of the day. That announcement came on Wednesday afternoon. The Giants will formally introduce Judge at a press...

Getty Images And another one bites the dust. The Giants have hired Joe Judge to serve as the team’s next head coach, according to multiple reports. Judge is both the special-teams coordinator and receivers coach in New England. He arrived in 2012 as assistant special-teams coordinator, taking...

Getty Images Shortly before word came that the Giants have agreed to terms with Joe Judge as their next head coach, there was a report that the Giants wanted to interview Jason Garrett for the position. It appears that their desire to speak to Garrett didn’t end with the decision to hire...

Getty Images Panthers owner David Tepper apparently didn’t get the memo that, despite the absence of a salary cap for coaches, NFL teams don’t spend as freely as they could on the men who run their teams. Adam Schefter of ESPN.com reports that the seven-year deal given to new Panthers coach...

Getty Images Special-teams coordinators rarely get the respect and consideration that they should, when teams are hiring head coaches. The Giants decided to reverse that trend on Tuesday, making Patriots special-teams coach Joe Judge their new head coach. It’s about time. John Harbaugh has...

Getty Images There were reports about the Giants’ interest in interviewing Jason Garrett on Tuesday before and after word came that they’ve hired Joe Judge as their new head coach, but it appears that nothing is on the schedule for the moment. The first report was that the Giants requested...