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There are three coaches Amos Jones expects would leave every interview with a job offer.
Bruce Arians. Mike Tomlin. Joe Judge.
That’s esteemed company for Judge, the dark horse who emerged Tuesday from a list of eight candidates as the new head coach of the Giants, pending signing a contract. Almost immediately fans — and even some NFL stars, like Tyrann Mathieu — were Googling, “Who is Joe Judge?” and not finding much.
They would have learned more from Jones, Arians’ special teams coordinator for the Buccaneers. Jones was an assistant coach at Mississippi State when Judge was a senior in 2004, and he urged his reluctant boss, Sylvester Croom, to hire Judge as a graduate assistant the next year.