At the midpoint of the Giants’ 2020 season, they had lost seven of their eight games, with four of those defeats by four or fewer points.
Asked to characterize his team, Giants Coach Joe Judge had answered: “I see a lot of improvement.”
As a rookie head coach in the N.F.L., Judge is given a little slack for maintaining his optimism in a dreary situation. But Judge is nothing if not a no-nonsense guy. He was tutored for nearly a decade by the Patriots’ Bill Belichick and Alabama’s Nick Saban, who are royalty in the blunt-speaking category.