Joe Judge knows how to give Daniel Jones a pat on the back while constructively coaching his quarterback to clean up his play.
Judge was mic'd up for Friday night's Giants intrasquad scrimmage and it revealed a telling exchange with Jones, who'd been strip-sacked and bobbled the ball on a scrambling slide.
"Hey, I liked just about 99% of everything we did in the first half. What didn't I like?" Judge said on the NBC New York telecast.
"The fumble," Jones said.
"The fumble on the slide and the fumble with the ball swinging (in the pocket), right?" Judge said.
"Keep it tight," Judge continued. "Have that clock in your head. You know when they're collapsing on you, right? Step up. A sack ain't the worst thing in the world. We don't want it. But just watch holding the thing too long cuz they're swatting at ya every time, alright?"
Judge said during his Sunday post-practice conference call about those two fumbles that "there's a list of things we gotta correct. It's never one guy's fault." Indeed, edge rusher Lorenzo Carter beat right tackle Cam Fleming for the strip sack on one of the fumbles.
"But everyone has individual techniques they have to improve on and everyone has to be individually focused on what's going on around them," Judge added, an allusion to how he was coaching Jones to navigate the pocket and pressure.
"We work on fundamentals with our team every day," Judge said. "It starts with not committing penalties by having the right technique. It starts with eliminating turnovers by having good ball security. It carries into mental errors by creating a stressful situation you have to operate in. So we're gonna keep on the emphasis with our entire team of stressing those three things so we can be a smart, tough and fundamentally sound team. But we're always gonna place an emphasis on tackling and turnovers throughout how we practice."
