Giants running backs coach Burton Burns speaks to the media before Giants training camp at Quest Diagnostics Training Center on Aug. 17. Credit: Kathleen Malone-Van Dyke
Joe Judge stood in the parking lot talking about the Raiders’ special teams prowess and how Daniel Jones has been handling adversity this season and the extent of Sterling Shepard’s quad injury, trying his best to push forward with football in what he admitted is an "ad lib" day for the Giants.
The setting in which he made those comments – far from the team’s practice field and with a line of players just a few hundred feet away all queued up for an extra round of COVID-19 testing in a trailer – only reinforced the idea of the situation through which the Giants were trying to work.