Mike Lupica: Julius Randle had a bad week, Joe Judge had another bad season

Julius Randle made mode excessively overmuch sound this week astir Knicks fans making excessively overmuch noise, mostly erstwhile they’re booing him oregon his teammates. The irony of Randle doing this successful a spot — Madison Square Garden — celebrated for the sound it makes, astatine slightest erstwhile the Knicks are going good, was astir apt mislaid connected Randle successful the vigor of a hothead moment. It was a dumb happening Randle did, giving his fans the thumbs-down gesture, possibly due to the fact that helium thought that went truthful good for the Mets past summer.

Randle acted similar a hothead. But helium is simply a hothead who astatine slightest has enactment immoderate points connected the committee successful the large city, particularly past play erstwhile helium was the MVP of his team, and 1 of the astir invaluable players successful the league and brought the Knicks back.

So helium had a atrocious week, didn’t enactment similar a grownup successful the process. So he’ll get implicit it and truthful volition Knicks fans. They benignant of request each other. Randle yet wised up on Friday and apologized.

It is antithetic with Joe Judge, arsenic young a caput manager arsenic helium is, and idiosyncratic who has enactment hardly immoderate points connected the committee successful his clip coaching the Giants.

Judge is expected to beryllium the grownup successful the country but acted the other of that past Sunday successful Chicago with an 11-minute rant that was arsenic code deaf a soliloquy arsenic immoderate we person gotten from immoderate manager oregon manager successful municipality lately. In the process, helium embarrassed himself and the Giants. It was arsenic if the embarrassment that is the Giants play had yet and officially spilled into his postgame property conference.

The lone happening helium did not bash was clasp up a motion that read, “Please. Don’t. Fire. Me.”

By present you person apt work oregon heard immoderate of the highlights of Judge’s loopy and self-serving performance. Here are conscionable a few, which inspired ESPN’s Dan Orlovsky, 1 of the savviest NFL commentators astatine that network, nicknaming Judge “Timmy Tough Nuts”:

— “I tin archer you we’re got much players present who are going to beryllium escaped agents adjacent year, each right, they’re coming successful my bureau each time begging maine to travel back. I cognize that. I cognize that. I cognize players that we coached past twelvemonth inactive calling maine doubly a week telling maine however overmuch they privation they were inactive present adjacent though they’re getting paid much determination else. OK? So I cognize we’ve got the close foundational pieces close there.”

— “This ain’t a squad that’s having fistfights connected the sidelines. This ain’t immoderate clown-show organization.”

— “A fewer years ago, earlier I came here, erstwhile I came present and I sat down with each the players, and I wanted to cognize what it was similar successful present and what we had to change, from their mouths — to a man, each subordinate looked maine successful the oculus and said, ‘Joe, it’s not a team, they don’t play hard, we’re retired of the playoffs, everybody quit, everybody tapped, they stopped showing up to captains meetings,’ each that stuff. Right? They tapped out.”

So overmuch of this, of course, is simply a preposterous mentation of things.

Judge wants the satellite to judge that adjacent though his squad is present 10-22 since helium replaced Pat Shurmur practically has players wanting to travel to MetLife Stadium and play for him, and for the Giants, for free. He wants you to judge that his 4-12 squad is someway superior to the Washington Football Team, the 1 against which the Giants mercifully reason their play connected Sunday, due to the fact that his players didn’t person a hothead infinitesimal of their ain this play and get into it connected the sideline, the mode a mates of Ron Rivera’s players did.

Judge wants you to judge that Shurmur’s Giants — his won-loss grounds was 1 crippled worse than Judge’s aft 22 games — discontinue connected him adjacent arsenic they were winning 2 of their past 3 earlier John Mara and Steve Tisch fired Shurmur. By the way? We were told erstwhile they hired Shurmur that helium was replacing Ben McAdoo, different MetLife lad wonder, due to the fact that they needed a grownup successful the room. Compared to what we saw from Judge past weekend, Shurmur was much of a grownup during his Giants tenure than Father Time.

There are 2 reasons you perceive for bringing Judge backmost adjacent year. One is that the Giants conscionable can’t bring themselves to occurrence different manager aft conscionable 2 seasons. I’m sorry, but who passed that law? The different is that this isn’t each Judge’s fault. No 1 that I know, surely nary passionate Giants instrumentality I know, has ever suggested that this is each Judge’s fault. Is helium liable for this benignant of losing? He’s not. But helium definite hasn’t done thing this play to halt it.

What helium was truly saying past Sunday successful Chicago, much than thing else, was what the Marx Brothers famously said 1 clip successful “Duck Soup” (which, incidentally, is simply a beauteous bully statement of what we’ve seen from the Giants this season):

“Who you gonna believe, maine oregon your ain eyes?”

It is not adjacent successful quality that the ample stock of the blasted for this duck-soup of a play is placed astatine the bureau doorway — but not his bureau for overmuch longer — of wide manager Dave Gettleman. This is the benignant of wide managing the Giants were getting successful the ‘70s, erstwhile fans were famously hiring a level featuring this connection — “15 Years of Lousy Football — We’ve Had Enough” to alert implicit Giants Stadium.

But it does not absolve the manager of responsibility, adjacent with each of the injuries the Giants person had this season, including the 1 that finished disconnected backmost Daniel Jones implicit a period ago. And it does not alteration the cognition that Judge seems implicit his head, oregon retired of his depth, contempt the information that ownership intelligibly convinced itself that it was hiring a Bill Belichick connected grooming wheels due to the fact that Judge had coached peculiar teams successful New England.

There was adjacent a constituent past Sunday erstwhile Judge weirdly referenced the ‘18 Patriots (who ended up winning the Super Bowl), portion of his taxable that those of america connected the extracurricular conscionable ne'er person immoderate consciousness of what’s going connected inside. This was aft his proposition that each those Patriots coaches were disquieted astir getting fired that year:

“On the outside, we were each terrible.”

Huh?

On what satellite did radical deliberation that they were “all” terrible? On what satellite did the full coaching unit deliberation they each mightiness beryllium fired from a squad that did extremity up going 11-5 and beating the Rams successful the Super Bowl? But Joe Judge was connected the inside. He’s connected the wrong now, and who are we gonna believe, him oregon our ain eyes?

What are John Mara and Steve Tisch gonna judge adjacent week? Their coach?

Or their ain eyes?

SALEH SHOULD OWN 4TH-DOWN MISTAKE, A-ROD IS NO PEYTON (OR ELI) & RAFA SLAMS NOVAXX …

Robert Saleh didn’t bash immoderate ranting past Sunday aft the Jets blew that crippled to Touchdown Tom and the Bucs.

But helium didn’t bash overmuch bully for himself, either, fundamentally throwing his violative coordinator Mike LaFleur nether the bus, aft Zach Wilson got stuffed connected that 4th-and-a-long-2 erstwhile a archetypal down puts distant a triumph that would person made the Jets season.

Please retrieve that the Jets did that coming retired of a timeout.

So we’re clear?

Saleh was connected the headset, aforesaid arsenic Adam Gase was erstwhile the Jets were successful that bonehead defence that produced a Hail Mary triumph for the Raiders a fewer years ago.

Saleh’s the caput coach.

What was stopping him from giving his rookie backmost the close instructions?

I emotion the thought that ESPN present believes that Alex Rodriguez tin beryllium portion of the benignant of ManningCast that we got this play from Peyton and Eli.

Right.

Got it.

One large difference:

People similar Peyton and Eli.

This from the large Rafa Nadal astir Novaxx Djokovic’s circumstances successful Melbourne:

“If helium wanted, helium would beryllium playing present successful Australia without a problem. He made his ain decisions, and everybody is escaped to instrumentality their ain decisions, but past determination are immoderate consequences.”

And this from Rafa, too:

“From my constituent of view, that’s the lone happening that I tin accidental is I judge successful what the radical who cognize astir medicine say, and if the radical accidental that we request to get vaccinated, we request to get the vaccine. That’s my constituent of view. I went done the COVID. I person been vaccinated twice. If you bash this, you don’t person immoderate occupation to play here.”

You cognize who I anticipation gets his 21st large astatine the Australian Open?

Him.

Now Laura Ingraham is huffy astatine Australia for the mode they’re treating Djokovic.

What, does she deliberation determination needs to beryllium an insurrection astir it, oregon something?

Here is what truly happened with Antonio Brown and the Bucs this week:

Nobody recovered immoderate precocious ground.

But everybody definite did found nuanced ineligible positions.

Both sides.

After Brown did the astir celebrated in-game strip-tease since Michael Ontkean successful “Slap Shot.”

Incidentally?

It’s starting to dependable arsenic if Antonio and Touchdown Tom mightiness beryllium connected their mode to couples counseling.

It’s been good established that Aaron Rodgers, erstwhile helium gets talking, tin beryllium a agelong day.

But he’s the MVP of the NFL this season.

By, like, a lot.

Continue to commune for my person Dick Vitale, 1 of the champion radical I know, 1 of the kindest, 1 of the astir generous.

And idiosyncratic who came on astatine the aforesaid clip John Madden did, arsenic my pal Bob Ryan keeps pointing out, and changed assemblage hoops connected tv the mode Mr. Madden changed pro shot connected television.

And you cognize something?

College hoops needed increasing a batch more.

And got it from the large Dickie V.

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James Patterson’s archetypal caller with Mike Lupica, The Horsewoman, is connected merchantability Monday.