Giants coach Joe Judge said his players told him that Jalen Ramsey threw the first punch and Golden Tate was only defending himself.
So Judge didn't see an "immediate need" to discipline Tate for Sunday's postgame fight with the Rams' corner. And a source indicated to the Daily News that NFL suspensions are not anticipated for either Tate or Ramsey, though they still could be fined.
"First off, I don't want John Mara or Steve Tisch or anybody involved with this team to have to deal with something like this after the game," Judge said. "This isn't why we play the game. We have 60 minutes to beat the hell out of each other legally between the whistles. We don't need anything extra after.
"There's a number of things we still have to look through as a team, but based on the information I was given, and what I saw with my own eyes and what our players gave me, it didn't sound like there was an immediate need for (disciplining Tate)," Judge added. "But we'll look into it if there is. Obviously we'll always take care of our players."
Judge said he talked to several Giants players, watched some video of the incident, and also had "enough of an eye-witness standpoint for myself" after meeting Rams coach Sean McVay at midfield.
And "the account I got from a number of our players was that there was a history obviously between that, and that there was a punch thrown, and Golden was defending himself. I was told he wasn't the one that threw the punch. And everybody involved was trying to break it up."
Judge said after meeting McVay, "I turned around and it was kind of happening right there in front of me, so I got a quick glimpse of it right there... I can say that both our players and the Rams staff and players from what I saw with my own eyes were all in there just trying to break it up. I didn't see everything going on in the pile, but from the accounts I was told and the information I was given and with what I saw with my own eyes, that's what I saw was guys trying to break it up."
Tate has not spoken to the media since the end of Sunday's game.
