The New York Giants will conduct their first “Blue and White” scrimmage at MetLife Stadium on Friday night. Since there are not preseason games this season, head coach Joe Judge decided to set up two intrasquad sessions to simulate game conditions. Depending on how well this one goes, there is another scrimmage scheduled for next Friday, Sept. 4.
On Thursday, Judge confirmed the format for the scrimmage would be offense versus defense to keep units together rather than split the roster up into two squads.
“We’ll have the special teams, it will be full offensive units and full defensive units,” he told reporters.  “But otherwise, it’ll be offense vs. defense. We explored the possibility of splitting the team into two teams. We felt it was really best for the offensive and defensive coaches and units to get used to the communication that they’re going to have on the sideline together, to keep all the offense and defense together. We can still accomplish everything we want to, but we’re just going to go one sideline offense, one sideline defense.”
That is the best way to do it, we suppose. It would make little sense to split the team in two. In a year where everything appears to be disjointed, keeping some type of cohesion and chemistry in place is the way to go. Judge explained what the team will be focusing on and how he plans to achieve his goals. He wants his tam to experience as many game conditions as possible.
“There are certain scenarios I want to make sure that we build in. At some point, I may want to see a two-minute end of half, two-minute end of game, a four-minute situation. I may want to see some low red zone work if that doesn’t come up. I have the freedom to kind of flex it and say spot the ball at a certain point. But I’m going to start with the mentality that we’re going to go out there and play ball. We’re going to simulate this game as much as we can and we’ll let it be natural. Start with a kickoff, kick return, wherever the ball lies, we’re just going to play it from there. It’ll be offense vs. defense. If they go three and out, we punt, we bring out the twos, they go ahead and play.”
There is no word on which players will be held out of the scrimmage at this time. Kickoff is set for 7:15pm  and highlights will be aired Saturday night at 6pm on NBC 4 NY.