Joe Judge wanted Jason Garrett out as the New York Giants' offensive coordinator just months into last season.

The Giants moved on from Garrett last week. Garrett had strong support from Giants ownership as they valued his experience has a head coach.

According to sources, Judge was already displeased with the offense when he fired offensive line coach Marc Colombo last November, with some in that organization bracing for Garrett to be gone after the season, if not sooner.

"It was already bad between them then," the source said.

The New York Giants are unlikely to retain Dave Gettleman as general manager in 2022.

The Giants hired Gettleman to run the front office in 2018.

Gettleman will be 71 next season and may retire altogether. 

In the wake of Jason Garrett's firing as offensive coordinator, Freddie Kitchens will call plays for the New York Giants.

Kitchens joined Joe Judge's staff as tight ends coach in 2020. He was moved into a senior offensive assistant role this season.

He has taken over play-calling duties during the season before. Kitchens went from running backs coach to offensive coordinator with the Cleveland Browns after Hue Jackson was fired as head coach during the 2018 season.

The New York Giants have fired offensive coordinator Jason Garrett after less than two years on the job, the team announced Tuesday.

The move comes as a result of continuing offensive struggles for the Giants (3-7) and follows their 30-10 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Monday Night Football.

Joe Judge says the coaches are more to blame than the players for the New York Giants' struggles.

The Giants lost 30-10 to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Monday Night Football.

"You can put that down tonight. Got that?" Judge said after the loss. "You guys can write that tonight. Players have to execute. That is their job, right? It is our job to teach them. It's their job to go out and execute.

"But we've got to make sure we put them in position to have success. That has to be consistent, by the way. So, you can go ahead and write that down. I'm not going to debate that."

Saquon Barkley returned to practice with the New York Giants on Monday for the first time since injuring an ankle more than a month ago.

Barkley has been nursing a low ankle sprain that took longer than expected to heal. He has missed the Giants' past four games.

There is realistic hope, according to sources, that he could be ready by Monday night when the Giants, fresh off their bye week, play on the road against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Saquon Barkley has tested positive for COVID-19.

Barkley is being retested, but is not at practice with the team. Barkley is vaccinated against the virus. 

Barkley has missed the past three games with an ankle injury.

Joe Judge says the New York Giants had to use timeouts they didn't want to use against the Kansas City Chiefs on Monday Night because their headsets weren't working and they couldn't get their plays called.

"It's happened in every game so far," Judge said. "We deal with the league and they keep telling us there are different software updates, but we had to call two timeouts today because we're trying to send the deals in personnel-wise and we have half the headsets aren't getting any reception  ... Whatever the issue with that is, the people involved with that had better get it fixed fast."

Judge said he doesn't know if league or Giants employees are in charge of getting the headsets to work but that it "better be fixed fast."