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Can We Finally Retire This Awful Media Cliché? TRAINA THOUGHTS

1. I’ve never understood people who get fired up by an NFL head coach’s introductory press conference.

While it helps to have a coach who isn’t combative with the media, “winning” a press conference is a completely useless, made-up media thing that has absolutely nothing to do with whether a guy will be a good head coach or not.

Case in point: Giants coach Joe Judge.

The headlines after Judge’s introductory press conference on Jan. 9, 2020 were glowing. Judge gave some good soundbites, so everyone was all-in on Judge before he even coached one game in his new role.