New York Giants general manager Dave Gettleman has said repeatedly that wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. is not going to be traded, but the rumors and phone calls have persisted regardless.

Earlier this week, it was rumored that the Cleveland Browns were making a hard push for Beckham and, at one point, speculation suggested that a deal was imminent.

We now know it was not.

While the Browns did make an offer, NFL Network’s Aditi Kinkhabwala reports that the Giants flat-out laughed at it.

“I had been told that Kevin Zeitler, Emmanuel Ogbah and another player had been offered for Beckham, [which was] run by a longtime member of the Giants organization, who laughed,” Kinkhabwala told 92.3 The Fan Cleveland.

Kinkhabwala continued by suggesting the trade discussions aren’t as serious as they are being portrayed across the league.

“I wouldn’t feel confident describing them (the rumors) as serious. I think it’s the time of year where there are lots and lots and lots of conversations,” Kinkhabwala added. “John Dorsey is not afraid to be aggressive. He’s not afraid to make bold moves. This is clearly a team that feels it’s on the precipice of doing something significant.

“Not just having a winning season but making the playoffs, making a run of some kind. He’s not going to be afraid to go out and do something like that.”

Even if Dorsey is just throwing things against the wall, the fact that the Giants “laughed” at the No. 6 highest-graded guard in the NFL, a young pass rusher and whoever else was in the offer tells you just how high the price tag on Beckham actually is.

As we at Giants Wire have said, Gettleman does not intend to trade Beckham and the only reason he won’t completely rule it out is that it will take a king’s ransom.