When Dave Gettleman drafted Saquon Barkley, he was asked about letting Sam Darnold fall right into the laps of the crosstown Jets.
“I don’t care,” Gettleman said.
He’ll care plenty if Sam Darnold proves to be better than Daniel Jones.
Because if you make decisions for the Giants, what you fear most is getting sand kicked in your face by your Little Brothers, the Jets.
Goes all the way back to Super Bowl III and to the Jets’ 37-14 preseason whipping of the Giants seven months later at the Yale Bowl.
By the same token, if you make decisions for the Jets, the last thing you want is to be mocked and ridiculed by the team with which you share the stadium on the site of the one that used to be called Giants Stadium.