After Joe Judge vented his frustrations with weekly issues on headsets failing the Giants and causing timeouts to be burned, the NFL expressed confidence that technology fails are on the team’s end…
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Judge know who is to blame for Giants’ headset problem
By
Ryan Dunleavy
November 2, 2021 3:15pm
The NFL sent the Giants a message to be heard loud and clear.
Don’t blame us — or the technology systems uniformly in place across the league — for the repeat outages on coaches’ headsets.
“We are looking into the matter with all involved parties,” a league spokesperson told The Post. “However, we are confident that nothing is attributable to the Bose headset.”
Head coach Joe Judge said after the 20-17 loss to the Chiefs on Monday that the Giants burned two timeouts because of personnel substitution issues traced to poor audio reception.
“It’s happened in every game we’ve had so far,” an angry Judge said about 45 minutes after the game ended. “We deal with the league and they keep giving us different software updates. … Whoever is in charge of it, they better fix it fast, that’s it.’’
With Judge looking for the culprit, Tuesday would have been a good day for the Giants’ employee in charge of the headsets to call out sick.
Giants coach Joe Judge holds his headset during the team’s loss to the Chiefs on Nov. 1, 2021.AP
“We have not been able to identify an issue in [Monday] night’s game with the Giants’ communication system,” the league said. “We were not made aware of any issues during the game from the club through our standard communication channels that are used to identify game-day issues.”
Judge was asked Tuesday if the Giants properly notified the league during the game.
“Let’s just clear it up real simple: We’ve talked with the league, they’re looking into resolving the issues that we’ve had throughout the year,” Judge said. “We’ll talk continuously with them. I made it very clear [Monday] night, I’m not an excuse-maker. I was asked a direct question in terms of why you weren’t [calling] timeout in certain situations and that’s the reason. That’s all I’m going to say about the headsets.”
The NFL’s crackdown on taunting penalties hurt the Giants for the first time, when Collin Johnson and Eli Penny picked up personal fouls. The rule has drawn ire for being too letter-of-the-law and further eliminating fun and emotion from players, but commissioner Roger Goodell said last week the emphasis will continue.
“We’ve just got to understand that you’ve got to handle business the way business is being done,” Judge said. “Sometimes, you get in chippy games and you’ve got to be smart and not put yourself in a position where you’ve given them an opportunity to throw a flag. That’s the message to everybody.”