Dave Gettleman used to bang his Super Bowl rings on the table here and there during his disastrous Giants tenure. But he inexplicably ignored what put them on his fingers.
One throughline connects the franchise’s four Lombardi Trophies: An elite pass rush.
Carl Banks, Leonard Hamilton and Lawrence Taylor wreaked havoc for Bill Parcells. Tom Coughlin had Jason Pierre-Paul, Justin Tuck, Michael Strahan and Osi Umenyiora. Yet Gettleman, on top of all his other misfires as general manager, never took the hint.
You can’t hammer Gettleman for trading Olivier Vernon and Pierre-Paul, and he may have gotten lucky at the end with Azeez Ojulari.