NFL: How Dave Gettleman's Guidance is Dragging the Giants in the Wrong Direction
Feature - March 13, 2019
Just when the New York sports fan, especially of the Giants, thought it couldn’t get any worse, it did. Shortly after deciding not to tag star safety and team captain Landon Collins, allowing him to walk away and sign a big contract with the Redskins, Giants GM Dave Gettleman has made yet another move that is both unbelievable and surely leaving Giants fans everywhere disgusted, if not also questioning his sanity.
Per Adam Schefter of ESPN, the Giants have agreed to a deal to send star wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr to the Cleveland Browns in exchange for safety Jabrill Peppers, the 17th overall pick in the 2019 draft, and one of the Browns’ third round selections.
The trade comes nearly months after the Giants gave Beckham a new contract worth $95 million, $65 million of which was guaranteed, weeks after Gettleman told reporters at the NFL Combine that the Giants “didn’t sign Odell to trade him”, and days after the team sent defensive end Olivier Vernon to Cleveland.
Now, with free agency fully commenced and the Giants barely making a splash to fix the real problems within their roster, those in the Giants’ fanbase and the media are left to question whether Gettleman is the man to bring the Giants back to prominence.