There is no good time to learn about a diagnosis of cancer, and the news general manager Dave Gettleman will undergo treatment for lymphoma certainly shook up the Giants. That the news arrived late in the spring, after NFL free agency and after the NFL draft, allows the Giants to regroup during a down time, as far as front office activity.
“The fortunate thing for us with the timing of it is, if I can use a horse reference, the horse is pretty much in the barn at this point,’’ Chris Mara, the Giants’ senior vice president of player personnel, said on SiriusXM Mad Dog Sports radio.