The dream scenario, for any GM and any franchise, is to hit the kind of grand slam the Chiefs hit with Patrick Mahomes.
Or, perhaps, to have Sam Darnold fall in your lap.
It is too late, of course, for Dave Gettleman to be confronting those enviable options.
Jerry Reese didn’t try to trade up for Mahomes or Deshaun Watson or Mitchell Trubisky because he still believed in 36-year-old Eli Manning.
Gettleman didn’t draft Darnold because he fell head over heels for Saquon Barkley, the best player in the 2018 NFL draft and future gold-jacket guy, and still believed in 37-year-old Eli Manning.