Saquon Barkley takes a handoff from Daniel Jones during Giants training camp. Credit: Giants.com/Matthew Swensen
Way back when this mess all began, in the spring when the pandemic first impacted the Giants, when they had to slap together a virtual offseason program on the fly, when so many of the players and coaches had never even met, Joe Judge’s priority was to find a way to bring them all together.
Physically that was impossible at the time, but Judge wanted to form emotional bonds among the various individuals who would eventually come together. He said that when the Giants finally did get on the field in one place he did not want there to be any strangers.