Very Bad News: New York Giants head coach angry and announced resignation immediately…

When the New York Giants hired Dave Gettleman to be their general manager, he vowed to fix the offensive line, which had not been good since the 2011 Super Bowl season.

Yet when faced with the opportunity to do so in 2018, his first draft in charge of the Giants, Gettleman famously fell in full-bloom love with Penn State running back Saquon Barkley to the point where months before the Giants selected Barkley with the No. 2 overall pick in the draft not only did everyone know that was going to be the team’s pick, but Gettleman reportedly refused to entertain offers to trade down for additional assets that might have otherwise helped the team rebuild after a 3-13 season the year prior.

So claims SNY’s Conor Hughes, who at the time was covering the New York Jets, recalled a conversation with then-Jets general manager Mike Maccagnan.

“I remember talking to [former New York Jets General Manager] Mike Maccagnan about this because you remember the Jets were drafting third,” Hughes said during a guest appearance on WFAN last Friday.

“I’m like, ‘Dude, weren’t you nervous that the Browns and Giants were going to go quarterback-quarterback?’ And suddenly, you’re landing the number three, which would have been [quarterback] Josh Rosen because after drafting Christian Hackenberg, they weren’t going to go with a project like Josh Allen again.

He goes, ‘No, because we had our sources that said the Giants were so locked in on Barkley at number two.