{"id":158117,"date":"2025-11-25T03:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T03:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/158117\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T03:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T03:24:07","slug":"derrys-mcatamney-released-by-new-york-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/158117\/","title":{"rendered":"Derry’s McAtamney released by New York Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"

Derry’s Jude McAtamney has been released by the New York Giants.<\/p>\n

The Irishman had been with New York Giants as their designated international player and was handed a golden opportunity this season when starting kicker Graham Gano was injured.<\/p>\n

The Giants signed eight-season veteran Younghoe Koo as cover but opted to promote McAtamney to the main roster instead.<\/p>\n

After a promising start to the NFL season, McAtamney made the headlines after the side\u2019s loss to the Denver Broncos with the player missing two extra points, which have a 96% average success rate in the NFL, with the Bronco landing a last-gasp field goal to win 33-32.<\/p>\n

The Giants quickly cut him from the roster, but re-signed him to their practice squad as their designated international player \u2013 however that is now set to go to German tight end Maximilian Mang.<\/p>\n

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\nJude McAtamney is on the search for a new club<\/p>\n

In the aftermath of the Broncos loss, McAtamney received a torrent of abuse online and spoke to RT\u00c9 Radio 1\u2019s Inside Sport about the impact.<\/a><\/p>\n

“The social media aspect of it blew up, there was no blocking it out,” he admits.<\/p>\n

“[But] I felt like, if I was able to read messages about people that were messaging me to go kill myself, and not let it bother me, in a weird way, I was like ‘What’s the worst they can throw at me then?<\/p>\n

“That was nearly my way of dealing with it, was looking at the stuff and being like ‘Look, this doesn’t actually affect me. It doesn’t bother me because I don’t feel these things about myself and I know what I can bring to the table.<\/p>\n

“I would say, I think I took it better than what people maybe thought. I think it caught some people by surprise.<\/p>\n

“But as a professional, you’ve just got to accept that. That’s part of the bargain. If you’re willing to accept the good days and all the benefits that come with professional sport, I think when the bad days come around and the negative things happen, you can’t really complain about it because that’s part and parcel of the job.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Derry’s Jude McAtamney has been released by the New York Giants. The Irishman had been with New York…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":95708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-158117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}