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Joe Judge was there. And the new Giants head coach instructed all the assistants he has hired to make sure they were in the field house to hear and soak in the Eli Manning retirement event.
Judge will never get to work with Manning, as Tom Coughlin, Ben McAdoo and Pat Shurmur did before him. Judge, though, wanted his staff to take in this special Giants moment as he embarks on his job trying to get back to the winning ways Manning produced for the franchise during the first half of his 16-year career.
“I would just say big-picture wise, you can’t be a part of this league without having a tremendous amount of respect for how Eli played on the field and conducted himself off the field,’’ Judge said.