With the COVID-19 pandemic back on the rise, the NY Giants are going to be hampered by not having enough bodies in training camp and preseason.
Man, can one more problem be laid upon Joe Judge’s feet before he coaches his first game with the NY Giants?
The player arrests are enough of a challenge for any rookie coach to have to fend off, but now, Joe Judge will likely only be able to evaluate about 75% of the players that a coach normally would according to ESPN.
More on NFL teams being expected to bring fewer players to training camp but also likely to have expanded practice squads for the regular season to combat COVID-19:https://t.co/Ar0Sc3vgKK
— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) July 2, 2020
On the surface, having only 75 players in camp instead of the usual 90 may not seem like much of a difference. If you were running a well-established team that has had the same leadership in place for quite some time, it might not make all that much of a difference.
However, that is the exact opposite situation the NY Giants are in. As one of the youngest and inexperienced teams in the NFL, Joe Judge badly needs those extra 15 bodies as he tries to put together the best roster he can to compete in 2020.
It’s hard enough to install a new system; even harder when you have less potential talent to evaluate.
Think of how many undrafted diamonds in the rough there are balling out in the NFL right now; there’s a good chance the NY Giants will miss out on having one – or several – of those types of players if the league does in fact decide to reduce the preseason roster limit to below 80.
Joe Judge has said and done all the right things since he’s taken over as the head man in charge of Big Blue, but we’re really going to find out what he’s made of after this disaster of an offseason (to no fault of anyone other than a virus).