Win, lose or tie, Judge's focus centers on areas of improvement. And there were plenty of them to go around after a 36-9 loss at home to the shorthanded 49ers.
The Giants were outscored 20-3 in the second half, turned the ball over three times, forced zero takeaways, and possessed the ball nearly half the time that San Francisco did.
"We have to work to be a balanced team," Judge said. "That's balanced whether it's running and passing, balanced offense and defense, balanced with the kicking game, playing complementary football. There are a lot of things right now that we have to make sure the yin and the yang factor out for each other. But we have to do a better job overall as a team, and we have to do a good job complementing each other on offense to help out the passing game and the running game."
After all, there is still a lot of football to be played. The Giants, who now hit the road for back-to-back weeks against the Rams and Cowboys, are fortunate to be just one game off the NFC East lead. Washington and Dallas are 1-2, while Philadelphia is 0-2-1 after tying Cincinnati on Sunday.
"Look, I'll tell you right now, those years we started off with a lot of wins, we didn't always finish those years as successful as the years we started off pretty rough," Judge said. "Sometimes early on, you really get a vision of what you are and your identity by how you have to correct your mistakes and what you have to learn from. We had a lot of years we were the most successful team in the world where it started off really, really rough. There are a lot of times you look around the meeting rooms and the locker room halfway through the year regardless of your record, and it's just doom and gloom. You have to make sure you kind of bring it back to perspective and understand it's a day by day process as a team, and you're all you got.
"You need to stand together as a team and you have to go ahead and make sure you guys move forward on a weekly basis to make improvements. It's the NFL. It's the most competitive league in all of sports in the world. It's at the highest absolute level. It's not supposed to be easy. What we're trying to do here isn't easy either. But we're going to try to keep it simple for our players that we can improve on a weekly basis and keep moving forward."
September 29, 2020 at 05:02AM
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