{"id":328454,"date":"2021-08-21T12:11:53","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T09:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/would-odell-beckham-have-thrived-if-joe-judge-were-his-giants-coach\/"},"modified":"2021-08-21T12:11:53","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T09:11:53","slug":"would-odell-beckham-have-thrived-if-joe-judge-were-his-giants-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/would-odell-beckham-have-thrived-if-joe-judge-were-his-giants-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"#Would Odell Beckham have thrived if Joe Judge were his Giants coach?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Would Odell Beckham have thrived if Joe Judge were his Giants coach?<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/steve-serby-02.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Steve Serby\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/steve-serby-02.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/steve-serby-02.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The boat <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">trip<\/a> the weekend before the playoff <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a> in Green Bay \u2026 the interview with Lil Wayne that infuriated Pat Shurmur \u2026 the video of partying in bed with a model in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>And the first red flag: The brouhaha with Josh Norman.<\/p>\n<p>Three New York Giants head coaches \u2014 from Tom Coughlin to Ben McAdoo to Shurmur \u2014 could not tame the beast inside the young lion who could not fulfill his ambition to be legendary in New York.<\/p>\n<p>The shame of it all is Odell Beckham Jr. might have had a puncher\u2019s chance had Joe Judge been his head coach from the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>It could be that no one, not even Vince Lombardi or Bill Parcells, could have solved the riddle of the young Beckham, whose otherworldly one-handed catch brought him fame too early and fortune after that.<\/p>\n<p>As the Giants engage in joint practices with the Browns, I pose this question:<\/p>\n<p>Would Beckham still be a Giant had Judge been his head coach in 2014, or 2016, or 2018?<\/p>\n<p>Coughlin was two seasons removed from Super Bowl XLVI when then-<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a> manager Jerry Reese gifted him Beckham, the playmaker he and Eli Manning craved, with the 12th pick of the NFL draft \u2026 and no one at the time was second-guessing passing on Aaron Donald, the 13th pick. Manning, of course, was also two years removed from Super Bowl XLVI and was about to enter his 11th season.<\/p>\n<p>The kinder, gentler Coughlin who earned high praise for developing relationships with Giants players was, like everyone else, infatuated with a talent he hoped could help take him and his aging quarterback to a third championship. Coughlin and Manning were three seasons removed from their second championship when Beckham went WWE with Norman.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Judge.Beckham.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Joe Judge and Odell Beckham Jr.\" class=\"wp-image-19201178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Judge.Beckham.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Judge.Beckham.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Judge.Beckham.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Judge.Beckham.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Joe Judge and Odell Beckham Jr.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images; AP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Beckham had already made his famous catch the previous November, and had become a bigger-than-life star. Coughlin opted not to remove Beckham from the Dec. 20, 2015, game against the Panthers in which the receiver and Norman tussled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want him out there to win the football game,\u201d Coughlin said.<\/p>\n<p>He didn\u2019t win the football game. And lost his chance to teach a discipline lesson to Beckham.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s got to learn at some point how to deal with some things on the field,\u201d Coughlin said. \u201cHe made some mistakes today, but I\u2019m hoping he will recognize that and get over it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Parcells gave Lawrence Taylor more rope than anyone else, but there was a mutual respect there that was missing between the 69-year-old Coughlin and the 23-year-old Beckham.<\/p>\n<p>Later, McAdoo was miffed at Beckham for not showing up for minicamp and Beckham was openly critical of Shurmur\u2019s offense and of Manning.<\/p>\n<p>The losing weighed on Beckham to the point at which he was more than ready to leave the bright New York stage that had illuminated his star.<\/p>\n<p>From the day he was hired, it was clear Judge was the CEO that ownership had failed to land in the early years of the post-Coughlin Era.<\/p>\n<p>He was not Bill Belichick II, but the Giants Way mimicked the Patriots Way in this regard: No one was above the team, and only winning mattered.<\/p>\n<p>When I asked Judge on the day he was introduced as Giants head coach what it was that he would not tolerate, he said: \u201cAnything that deters from the team\u2019s ability to win.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"662\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Odell-Beckham-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Odell Beckham Jr.\" class=\"wp-image-19201193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Odell-Beckham-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Odell-Beckham-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/Odell-Beckham-2.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Odell Beckham Jr.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Quest Diagnostics Training Center now houses a football factory, a place in which working on craft and getting better each and every day is the expectation. It\u2019s a veritable football school with coaches hired because they can teach well enough to teach the players how to make the very best peanut butter and jelly sandwich.<\/p>\n<p>Judge\u2019s Parcells-like knack for getting to know what makes each and every one of his players tick has helped foster trust.<\/p>\n<p>He isn\u2019t for everyone. But the level of buy-in he has gotten from his Giants has been eye-opening.<\/p>\n<p>Golden Tate screaming, \u201cThrow me the ball!\u201d during a Monday night loss to the Buccaneers earned him discipline from Judge, and everyone understood why.<\/p>\n<p>Would Beckham have abided by any zero tolerance policy?<\/p>\n<p>Would he have bought in the way the Judge Giants have bought in to We Not Me?<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s his $90 Million Question.<\/p>\n<p>Belichick, of course, is not for everyone either, and while he had more pelts on his wall back then than Judge does now, the allure of winning \u2014even inside a rigid football factory \u2014 was enough for the likes of Randy Moss and Corey Dillon (and playing with Tom Brady didn\u2019t hurt, either). Judge has been about establishing that kind of culture.<\/p>\n<p>Beckham\u2019s recent injury woes have given Giants GM Dave Gettleman the current edge in the controversial trade that produced Dexter Lawrence, Jabrill Peppers and Oshane Ximines.<\/p>\n<p>That would change if a healthy Beckham, now three months from 29, is instrumental in helping Baker Mayfield take the Browns to their first Super Bowl.<\/p>\n<p>Would he be catching slants and taking them to the house for Daniel Jones if Judge were his Giants head coach?<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll never know.<\/p>\n<p>You be the judge.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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