Jermaine Eluemunor fires back at Bill Belichick over Giants O-line takedown

Jermaine Eluemunor wants his former head coach to watch.When the Giants face the Steelers in Week 8, Eluemunor challenges Bill Belichick — the longtime Patriots head coach who blasted Big Blue’s offensive line on “The Pat McAfee Show” Monday — to zero in on that same unit.Focus on Eluemunor’s matchup with star edge rusher T.J.

Watt at right tackle, even.Notice what Eluemunor sees in the Giants’ run- and pass-blocking: that the line, despite what Sunday’s blowout loss to the Eagles displayed and what metrics suggest, has been “pretty damn good.”“We’ll see what Bill’s saying after that,” Eluemunor said during an appearance on WFAN on Tuesday.Because following Sunday’s game, Belichick’s analysis consisted entirely of criticism.

Joshua Ezeudu, who started in place of the injured Andrew Thomas at left tackle, “shouldn’t be playing left tackle.” Evan Neal, a first-round pick in 2022, “doesn’t play.” The guards the Giants signed in free agency — Greg Van Roten and Jon Runyan Jr.— are “pretty suspect.” And in general, he said, “it’s a tough line,” one that surrendered eight sacks against the Eagles and has allowed the third-most sacks (22) in the NFL this season.Eluemunor respects the opinion and the coaching history of someone such as Belichick, but he doesn’t care about those thoughts.“Whatever Bill thinks is what Bill thinks,” Eluemunor said Tuesday.

“Everyone’s free to have their opinion.… I could care less what a coach outside the building who’s not even coaching right now has to say, and that’s not a shot toward him.

He obviously is a legendary coach, but yeah, I could care less about what someone outside the building has to say about a unit when we’ve been one of the best in the league.”Though that might have been the case at times this year, with the Giants allowing 14 sacks across the opening six games prior to their Eagles debacle, that outlook changed significantly when Thomas under...