Landon Collins Claims Giants Dumped Him and OBJ for Being Too Vocal About Wanting to Win

The New York Giants have been a circus this offseason, trading away or neglecting to re-sign key players before spending their sixth overall draft pick on a QB in Daniel Jones who many believed wasn't even necessarily a first-round talent.

All of this falls on the shoulders of their GM Dave Gettleman, who has been the one almost every fan has pointed the finger at this offseason. And now, it looks like some of the players Gettleman gave away are ready to speak up about his questionable decisions.

Landon Collins isn't the first to express their feelings about Gettleman, and he certainly won't be the last. The GM's entire reasoning for getting rid of these key players has been about deference to notions of team culture. After he dealt Odell Beckham Jr. to the Cleveland Browns, he claimed the "culture problem" was gone.

But Collins begs to differ, as he claims he wasn't brought back because he and players like himself and OBJ spoke up to loudly about their need and desire to win.

"I know myself, Odell, all we wanted to do was win, and we spoke up because we had to get them to listen to us," he said, via ESPN.

Well, it appears that the Giants did listen-- they just didn't agree apparently.

Creating a positive, winning culture is paramount in the NFL, as every successful team in the league has a solid foundation of leaders who create a championship culture. As we've seen with teams in the past, however, simply getting rid of players who are labeled as "locker room cancers" or "culture problems" doesn't always lead to wins. More often than not, the man responsible for getting rid of all the players -- Gettleman, in this case -- turns out to be more of a problem than any of the payers were.

Remember when Chip Kelly gutted the Philadelphia Eagles in order to create his own culture? He ended up getting fired before he had a chance to do much of anything else. The Eagles quickly changed course and ended up winning the Super Bowl two years later.

All of this will catch up with Gettleman, as it's not hard to predict how this will end. If the team struggles this season, he may not even be back making football decisions this time next year.