Joe Judge was a special teams coach with Alabama and the New England Patriots before becoming head coach of the New York Giants. As a rookie head coach in 2020, he made no secret of how important that phase of the game is to him.
Thus, it had to drive him crazy that, while the Giants finished 12th overall in Football Outsiders Special Teams DVOA, there were obvious areas of the Giants’ special teams that were problematic in 2020.
- In kickoff coverage, the Giants were 30th in the NFL with a -7.