Last week, Carl Banks was on with Joe and Evan, musing over Odell Beckham Jr. Banks, as sharp and insightful as anyone in this industry, didn’t think Beckham’s histrionics were hurting the Giants.
Most former NFL players echoed Banks’ sentiment. Until Monday night.
Now the tables are clearly turning on the electric, eccentric wideout, whose increasing volatility has stapled a target across his jersey, and is leaving teammates to clean up the carnage.
It started simply enough. Beckham lived in his bubble, a football nimbus we needn’t understand. As long as he kept racking up numbers and posterizing NFL secondaries, we wouldn’t violate his space, dismissing his moods as an adjunct of his athletic brilliance.