The Many Angry Exes Of David Gettleman
I wanted to make a comic about OBJ going into “trash his ex” mode about the Giants in the media lately, and then I remembered that Landon Collins has also been rather spicy about David Gettleman to the media recently too. So I was thinking about how to incorporate both of them into a comic, when I then remembered that there is an even more extensive history of former players who were cut or shipped off by Gettleman who now seem to publicly hate the guy. Namely Josh Norman and Steve Smith.
What’s interesting to me is that Gettleman clearly seems to hate big personalities, and he must be callous as hell when dealing with players. One way in which I’ll give the guy credit is he clearly has no trouble making difficult decisions and making moves he deems he has to make. He’s cold and calculating. Jerry Reese, our former GM, was pretty bad at being strong and decisive. Ereck Flowers was a terrible bust from the start, but Reese and McAdoo let the guy hang around kinda hoping he’d just improve. Last year, under Shurmur and Gettleman, Flowers was immediately shuffled around in an attempt to get it working and then promptly jettisoned. That kind of immediate decision making was never something I saw under Reese, and until it became obvious that David Gettleman might be senile and a moron, I was genuinely impressed. Gettleman might be a huge moron who is tanking the future with dumb moves, but I’ll give him credit for having the gumption to do it his way.
I also find it interesting how the personalities that he’s jettisoned line up. Steve Smith was clearly butthurt about how the Panthers didn’t seem to value him and his place on the team. I don’t think getting rid of Smith was a bad move. We praise Belichick for how heartless he is, treating players like currency, but it works. Smith was an over-the-hill diva who would take up too much salary cap. It was a tough move but it was probably the right one. Steve Smith is also a huge asshole. Josh Norman is also an asshole who, while good, wasn’t quite top tier good outside the one season, and the Panthers had more important signings to make. Letting him walk was a tough, but I think it may have been okay.
Landon Collins I’ve spoken about before and the more he talks the happier I am Gettleman let the guy walk. He just recently cracked a joke about how he’d level Gettleman on the sidelines if he got a chance. Classy. He got all “come on guys, it was obviously a joke” when the media ran with that quote, but frankly “jokes” like that don’t happen without starting from a place of honest resentment. There’s fire under that smoke. The more he yaps and bashes the Giants, the more I wonder if he was actually an asshole all along. Most of us fans praised him as a big locker room leader when he was calling out Eli Apple as a cancer but looking back now, maybe Collins was a douche all along. Lots of talk for a guy who had one good season and can’t cover for shit. “thehumble21” is very humble.
OBJ is the odd one out here. OBJ is a huge diva and loves attention, but unlike the other 3 he was worth the drama. Gettleman recognized it too, that’s why he paid the man last year when he was still (stupidly) under the impression the Giants were still close to actually competing. OBJ is kinda right in how he kept the team afloat during these past few seasons, he won several games by himself. He’s worth the headache on a team that can compete. I guess Gettleman decided he wasn’t worth it for a team in need of a major rebuild. Would have been nice to have a stud WR to help Daniel Jones (Jesus Christ fucking Daniel Jones) develop. But, like I said on Monday, it’s genuinely kinda nice to no longer have to jump through hoops to defend his diva bullshit.
Can’t wait to watch them all laugh at the Giants when we flop around like Magikarps this season.
Also OBJ cut his hair and I hate it
Cancer joke is too much tbh
I didn’t mind it. I didn’t take it as being serious. To me, it kinda fit in with the “bitter exes” bit.
I feel conflicted. You acknowledge these guys were probably d-bag jerkwads in the comments, but none of that comes into play within the comic. To a casual observer unfamiliar with Gettleman’s history, it looks like racist white dude has problems with outgoing black players who subsequently want to kill him. It doesn’t substantively deal with the fact that each of these guys were – or are showing themselves to be – petty and vindictive jackasses with valid reasons for being shipped outta town.
Also, this is a petty sidenote, but no way in hell would OBJ would sit there with puppy dog eyes and say “BUT WHY!?” After getting paid, he followed up their faith in him by fake urinating in the endzone, publicly trashing the qb, publicly trashing the coach, questioning the game plan, questioning how much he reallllllly liked being in NY, and then threw his hands in the air almost EVERY SINGLE TIME HE DIDN’T GET A PASS THROWN AT HIM. He knows exactly why they shipped his dumb ass out of town.
So I dunno, this comic didn’t land for me. Each of them had legit reasons for being dumped, and I’m with you, after the last few comments and petulantly refusing to say the team’s name, it’s becoming quite apparent Landon Collins is a nightmare and the Giants dodged a super huge bullet by dumping him. But it would be nice if that angle was pulled into the comic, and not sitting alone, off in the distance, almost as an afterthought.
I do love the premise, though.
The fake urinating thing was a direct response to the president comparing NFL players to dogs. It wasn’t directed at the Giants or anyone else.
Fair enough, let’s give that a pass, even though it’s still an idiotic gesture that reflects poorly on the Giants.
A sad “I thought you loved me!” is still one of the last things you’d ever hear out of his mouth. I know it’s a comic, bend the rules of reality, blah blah blah, but he’s an egocentric arrogant dude, and depicting him as a sort of sad homeless puppy is just… at odds with reality. It should be closer to what he’s actually been saying… “EVERYONE LOVES ME, @#*$&#@ YOU, I ALONE MADE THE NY GIANTS BRAND WITH MY AWESOME CATCH! I AM SINGLE HANDEDLY KEEPING THE NFL ALIVE!!” (pun intended)
Again, I’m aware this is possibly an overly detailed nitpick, but as a fellow Giants fan, I expect – nay, DEMAND – that the little details be observed! =D
I laughed way too hard at this. For anyone who hasn’t caught all the little remarks Dave has made here and there, this is basically the comic it was all building up to I guess. Also, just because Dave has an outlet to complain about his teams ignorance (at least the GM’s), let’s not pretend that we don’t all take the time to criticize our own beloved teams when they do something stupid. This comic was good. Dude let go of some good talent and hasn’t done anything to cover it up.
“Gettleman might be a huge moron who is tanking the future with dumb moves, but I’ll give him credit for having the gumption to do it his way.”
I’ll happily get on this bus going to hell, because the driver already has a route mapped out.
You’re totally off on cutting Steve Smith. He was a top 5 receiver in the NfL when the panthers cut him, he wasn’t crazy old, the panthers didn’t have a young receiver that they were trying to get touches to, and it actually COST them money to cut him. So they cut the heart and soul of the team, for nothing but a bunch of dead cap.
Ice up son.
As a Panthers fan, one of your points is absolutely false. Steve Smith wasn’t even top 15 in the NFL in receiving yards the year AFTER they cut him, which is was his big comeback year. The year they ACTUALLY cut him, he didn’t crack 800 yards receiving, he got hurt, and he was 34 years old. He was not a top 5 or even top 10 receiver. Saying such means you’re putting him ahead of:
Josh Gordon, Antonio Brown, Calvin Johnson, Demaryius Thomas, AJ Green, Andre Johnson, Jordy Nelson, Dez Bryant, and others.
Do you know where he ranked in terms of yards per game that season? 57th, with 49.7 ypg. The fact is, he was old and getting slow. Now, I absolutely agree that the panthers should have kept him around because he was, quite frankly, the best they had besides greg olsen, and he would absolutely have been a locker room presence for young guys. But calling him a top 5 WR in the NFL at the time is just absurd.
A tiny nitpick: Apparently Collins now wears #20 on the ‘Skins instead of the #21 he used to wear.
“Can’t wait to watch them all laugh at the Giants when we flop around like Magikarps this season.”
But if you’re flopping like Magikarps, that means there’s still hope, because you know that one day, someday, your useless gasping fish is gonna swim up the rapids and become a mother****ing laser-breathing dragon.
It’s flopping like a bunch of goddamn Goldeens you have to worry about. Marginally better than Magikarps, but no hope guaranteed.
So who’s the Magikarp then? The 49ers? Jaguars?
We finally get an offensive line that looks like it will block for more than half a second and we lose our receivers. I’ll take a season of flopping around as that’s better than dead
As I said, complicated relationship.
Anyone else think OBJ looks more like Zeke in this one?
Getting rid of Smith is a bad move when you have a QB that himself is a short gain threat with a massive cannon with more accuracy downfield than close up and your back up plan is….. Ted Ginn Jr. That said I’d love to have Ginn back….. “Bitter” is pretty accurate.