Giants general manager Dave Gettleman speaks to the media during a news conference on Tuesday, Dec. 31, 2019. Credit: Kathleen Malone-Van Dyke
Dave Gettleman’s words have a way of being parsed right down to the syllable.
That hasn’t always been fair, but it has become a reality. Whether it’s his insisting that Eli Manning had years remaining in his career, his “didn’t sign him to trade him” stance on Odell Beckham Jr., or his meme-worthy dismissal of analytics when he drafted Saquon Barkley, there have been plenty of times in his short but impactful tenure as general manager of the Giants when the biggest obstacle to making his case has been trying to step over the case he made previously.