Joe Judge, New York Giants. (USA Today)
These three NFL head coaches should be feeling the heat after how Week 3 went for them.
Being an NFL head coach means you are bound to get fired at some point, and these three head coaches are well on their way after how the first three weeks of this season have gone for their respective teams.
What yields disappointment is outcomes vs. expectations. For whatever reason, these head coaches are massively underperforming their expectations for this season. Roughly one-quarter of the league’s head coaches get whacked in a given year. Not saying these three will be handed the pink slip this season, but they are not holding up their end of the bargain through three weeks.
Here are head three coaches who should be raked over the coals on local sports talk radio Monday.
NFL head coach hot seat watch: Who is feeling the heat after Week 3?
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Joe Judge
Head Coach New York Giants
Joe Judge has lost back-to-back games on last-second field goals 10 days apart
The New York Giants have lost their last two games by a combined four points. It does not matter that they came on game-winning field goals by the opposition as time expired 10 days apart, the jury is judging Joe Judge’s team and his team cannot execute. While the Denver Broncos are good, the Washington Football Team and the Atlanta Falcons are not, and the Giants lost to all three.
At this point, all the high school shenanigans during training camp are not paying off. There are not enough tennis balls in the world you can tape to your defensive backs’ hands to practice containing Kyle Pitts and Calvin Ridley in the receiving game. In a game Daniel Jones should have been assertive in, he let Matt Ryan’s dome arm win a game outside above the Mason-Dixon Line.
While much of this cannot fall on Judge directly, this is his team and year two looks to be more of the same as year one. If the Giants keep this up, Jason Garrett will go from calling plays to clapping his hands on the sidelines. America dealt with that for a decade with America’s Team. Do we really want the world’s greatest sideline percussionist to be back doing what he does the very best?
Judge’s Giants are in the running for one of the worst teams in the NFC, and in all of football.