Odell Beckham Jr. Felt "Disrespected" by the New York Football Giants
If the Eagles are gonna win the NFC East this season, they’re gonna have to go through the New York Giants, a juggernaut of a team that has lost 9 of their last 10 games to the Birds.
But anything can happen in the National Football League. The Giants could be the SURPRISE of the season, with Eli Manning turning back the clock to throw for 35 touchdowns and 0 interceptions while fending off a ferocious push from draft pick Daniel Jones.
If they do it, it’ll be without Odell Beckham Jr., who was traded to the Browns. OBJ recently did a wide-ranging interview with GQ, and talked about feeling dissed by the team:
My initial reaction was not disappointment.… I felt disrespected. Like, after everything I’ve done for them. This is me being honest: This team has not been good for the last six years. Period. Even the year we went to the playoffs and everyone was talking about this and that. And we went there, and I didn’t have a great playoff game. Don’t get me wrong, I had a terrible game. But I left the game with seven targets, and I’m supposed to be your number one receiver. I left the game with seven targets. We lost. (Green Bay) scored 40 points. It’s just all bad.
Well, he’s not wrong is he? The Giants have not been good for the last six years. I think that’s the fact, Jack.
I’m also not sure if anybody outside of OBJ (and Saquon Barkley) were worth watching on that team last season, which Beckham sort of suggests here, after the jump:
I felt disrespected, because I felt like I was a main reason at keeping that brand alive. They were getting prime-time games, still, as a 5-and-11 team. Why? Because people want to see the show. You want to see me play. That’s just real rap. I’m not sitting here like, “It’s because of me.” But let’s just be real. That’s why we’re still getting prime-time games. I felt disrespected they weren’t even man enough to even sit me down to my face and tell me what’s going on.
Maybe Giants fans are reading those quotes and thinking that the team made the right move to trade OBJ. Is he a diva? Probably. Are a lot of NFL skill players divas? Probably. New York turned Beckham into three defensive players, so they did get a nice return for him, and we’ll see if the crop of Golden Tate, Sterling Shepard, and others can make up for his productivity on the offensive end.
I’m not holding my breath, but that’s just one person’s opinion.
Jan. 2nd: David Gettleman "We didn''t sign Odell to trade him."
March 12th: Odell Beckham traded to the Browns. pic.twitter.com/koW1GlsrkZ
— NFL on ESPN (@ESPNNFL) March 13, 2019