Mike Golic Responds To Odell Beckham Jr. Comments - 'Don't Open Your Mouth'
In the court of public opinion, the case of Odell Beckham Jr. vs. Eli Manning has gone to the trial of talk radio, and the defendant appears to have the advantage.
Beckham, who went on ESPN Sunday to complain about playing with Manning, has been getting ripped apart by pundits and fans alike for his transgression.
Mike Golic, the former NFL player who works for the self-proclaimed “Worldwide Leader in Sports,” absolutely clobbered Beckham on the “Golic and Wingo” radio show Monday morning.
Did Odell Beckham Jr "galvanize" the Giants locker room?
@wingoz "I need to hear Eli Manning say that. [Odell] doesn't get to make that claim" pic.twitter.com/IJh35E0IXJ— UNSPORTSMANLIKE Radio (@UnSportsESPN) October 8, 2018
“I get it, people are emotional. But the only reason he had to go back up in front of the team and ask the coach to do that, because he said it was a miscommunication, because of what he said publicly. That’s why I say, don’t open your mouth!” Golic said.
“Don’t do that stuff. I mean, it’s great for our show and some players are going do it and I know three-quarters of the audience listening and watching are going to say, ‘Oh we want to hear the truth.’ That’s great. You can hear it and then you get a guy that says ‘It was miscommunication, I wanted to straighten it out.’
“You wouldn’t have had to straighten it out in the first place if you just took care of all this in the locker room in the first place and not gone public with it.”
For Beckham to insist that his temper tantrum “galvanized” the Giants locker room is to make a huge presumption that the team has lost faith in the quarterback, a statement that has no corroboration or basis in reported fact thus far.
Making matters worse, Beckham has criticized his teammates for not playing with enough heart, which on a 1-4 team sounds more like the malcontent who needs to be traded rather than the clubhouse leader who needs to make his teammates better.
Giants coach Pat Shurmur was ripping mad about those comments as well.
"Pat Shurmur was absolutely livid." @JayGlazer reports on the Giants' reaction to OBJ's negative comments this week pic.twitter.com/7RFJ2FNFax
— FOX Sports (@FOXSports) October 7, 2018
The Giants are a mess. No amount of angry coaches or mouthy wide receivers will make that any less obvious.
The team drafted a running back second overall in one of the deepest quarterback drafts in 35 years, deciding to roll with a 37-year-old quarterback with a 55.9 QBR so far this the season who calls signals for the ninth-worst offense in the league, and in the process proving why running backs never go that high in the draft anymore.
At 4-17 since the start of the 2017 season, the Giants are just two wins ahead of the 2-18-1 Cleveland Browns, a team that went 0-16 last year, for worst record in the league in that span.
They’re fast gaining on the Knicks for most insane, “what is wrong with you people?” sports squads in Gotham.
And now they’ve got a problem with media scrutiny as their breakdown in team chemistry on a team that went 11-5 in 2016 turns full Chernobyl on them.
Odell Beckham Jr. needs to be quiet, all right. And so do the voices saying anything other than the front office needs to blow up this team and start over.
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