In 2018, the New York Giants prolonged Odell Beckham Jr. to a five-year deal, and then-general supervisor Dave Gettleman proudly proclaimed that they “didn’t signal Odell to commerce him.”
Nicely, a month after that season ended, he was despatched to the Cleveland Browns in a blockbuster.
However Beckham’s tenure in Cleveland wound up turning bitter as nicely.
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Odell Beckham Jr. is proven as a member of the Cleveland Browns in 2021. (Nick Cammett/Getty Photos)
The extensive receiver and his father had been upset together with his utilization, and he was finally launched in 2021 earlier than signing with the Los Angeles Rams and successful the Tremendous Bowl with them that very same season.
Beckham, now a member of the top-seeded Baltimore Ravens, has saved friendships with a lot of his Large Blue teammates and has continued to nonetheless present his love for the Giants group.
However contemplating Cleveland had lengthy been a laughingstock, even on the time of the commerce, Beckham nonetheless has a foul style in his mouth.
“There’s semi a little bit of me that feels just like the Giants despatched me off, I’ve mentioned it earlier than, despatched me off to Cleveland to die,” Beckham mentioned on the “Punch Line Podcast.”
Odell Beckham Jr. says the commerce that despatched him from the New York Giants to the Cleveland Browns “felt like a transfer that had a little bit of spite.” (AP Photograph/David Richard/File)
“I might’ve went to the [San Francisco] 49ers; I might’ve went to the [New England] Patriots; I might’ve went to groups that had an opportunity to be nice, and that’s not what their want was.”
Beckham was traded for offensive lineman Kevin Zeitler (mockingly, now a Ravens teammate) and two picks, one in every of which led to All-Professional defensive deal with Dexter Lawrence.
However Beckham says the Giants cared extra about screwing the receiver than what the return package deal was.
“You’ll be able to’t inform me that, ‘This was the very best commerce package deal we might’ve acquired for you.’ Your want was to type of f–ok me over a bit bit, is how I really feel,” he mentioned. “You are feeling like I made a idiot of you or the group, and that was by no means actually my intention. I’m simply that aggressive. I wished to win. I all the time wished to win.”
Odell Beckham Jr. was finally launched by the Cleveland Browns earlier than signing with the Los Angeles Rams, with whom he’d win a Tremendous Bowl. (Nick Cammett/Getty Photos)
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“It felt like a transfer that had a little bit of spite.”
The Giants made the playoffs as soon as whereas Beckham was there, dropping to the Inexperienced Bay Packers after the notorious boat journey in early 2017.
Beckham has an opportunity to win his second ring with a Ravens, a group that he lately referred to as the very best he’s ever been on.
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