The apple doesn’t fall far from the Bill Belichick coaching tree.
Giants rookie head coach Joe Judge flexed his Belichickian roots at Monday’s training camp practice – the first in pads – by making the players and coaches run laps during drills.
“There are consequences for making mistakes,” he told reporters, per Pat Leonard of the New York Daily News. “In a game, it costs you 5, 10, or 15 yards. In a practice, ther eahve to be consequences, so we learn how to deal with our mistakes.”
It is an old-school move out of Judge, just 38 years old, and a move that is rarely seen on an NFL field.
Giants wide receiver Sterling Shepard said that the last time he had to run laps was “probably middle school,” while Saquon Barkley could not remember.
“We’re really focusing on being a detailed team,” Barkley said, per NJ.com. “The little things matter, and I guess that comes with the territory.”
Judge, the Giants’ fourth head coach in the last six years, spent the last eight seasons as an assistant on Belichick’s coaching staff with the New England Patriots, the last five of which he was the special teams coordinator.
Having the players and coaches do laps for making mistakes is a move Belichick has used in the past.
Of course, Belichick has six Super Bowl rings as a head coach and two more as a defensive coordinator under Bill Parcells with the Giants.
While Judge has yet to coach a game in the NFL, he vowed to take a disciplinarian approach to the Giants – a stark contrast from the Ben McAdoo and Pat Shurmur years – and he is certainly following through on that promise thus far.
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