Dave Gettleman Basically Told His Other 1st-Rounder Dexter Lawrence That Duke Football is Bad

Well, this is awkward.

New York Giants' general manager Dave Gettleman has never shied away from contradicting himself. After all, he delivered perhaps the most laughable quote of the NFL offseason: "We didn't sign Odell to trade him."

Well, Gettleman was back at it again on Friday. Only this time he took a subliminal shot at the player virtually everybody within the league's landscape thought he reached on at No.6 overall in April-- former Duke quarterback Daniel Jones. And he (unsurprisingly) did so while trying to hype up his other first-round selection -- former Clemson pass rusher Dexter Lawrence.

'I tell Dexter [Lawrence] all the time, you’re entering a violent world. You’re playing against 28, 29-year-old men who wanna rip your lungs out. You're not playing Duke, or whomever.' -Dave Gettleman.

So...we're saying Duke football isn't the cream of the crop, eh?
— John Healy (@jphealy) July 26, 2019

Be honest, G-Men extremists: on a scale of 1-to-10 how startled are you by this particular quote? Well, if you've been paying attention, it shouldn't come anywhere close to a shock.

In our eyes, at least, we've just grown to expect it from the 68-year-old exec.

Why reach on a QB like Jones if you apparently don't even respect the college program that developed him?

Dave Gettleman claims that Pat Shurmur will ultimately make the decision on when Daniel Jones will replace Eli Manning. Here’s what Gettleman said today, and why that seems unlikely, given the #Giants’ history: https://t.co/QcwJlkPVcB
— Matt Lombardo (@MattLombardoNFL) July 26, 2019

Of the hundreds of schools in the nation that don't necessarily excel at football, Gettleman opts to slight the one that produced the prospect he plans to hand the keys of the franchise over to when Eli Manning calls it a career.

Giants Nation has been itching for a reason to feel good about their organization selecting Jones, and Gettleman did anything but reassure their skepticism.