New York Giants general manager Dave Gettleman is plugged into the NFL world and is well aware that he’s currently being viewed as a crazy person and having his unique style of roster building drug through the mud.
That culminated post-NFL Draft when Cleveland.com published a deliberate slam piece, cherry-picking a moment Gettleman misspoke following three days of no sleep and intense deliberation, implying he was incompetent.
Gettleman sees it all. He hears it all. And in defiance, he still believe he’ll be the man who laughs last.
“The bottom line is, I have confidence in what I do and who I am,” Gettleman told Peter King’s Football Morning in America. “I’ve been a part of organizations that had pretty good quarterbacks—Jim Kelly, John Elway, Kerry Collins, Eli Manning, Cam Newton. I’ve led a charmed life with the quarterbacks on the teams I’ve worked for. I know what good ones look like. The other thing is, résumés matter. Every once in a while, I wish the people taking the shots would take a minute to look at my résumé. I’ve been a part of teams that went to seven Super Bowls. I had a hand in some of them. But today, there’s no patience. And there’s no room for civil discourse in our society, which I find sad.
“In three years, we’ll find out how crazy I am.”
Whether you agree with Gettleman’s rebuilding plan or not, he hit the nail on the head here. Patience is gone and today’s society not only lacks civil discourse, but demands satisfaction instantaneously. It sets an unrealistic expectation for everyone, including a 68-year-old second-season general manager who just engaged in a vicious battle with an aggressive form of cancer.
If you’re a Giants fan, you’ve got to hope Gettleman does, in fact, laugh last. And if you’re a decent person who’s tired of personal attacks over personnel decisions, you should hope Gettleman comes out on top, too.
