Transcript: Odell Beckham

WR Odell Beckham Jr.

October 20, 2014



Q: Why do you say that?

A: We just need to take a step back from football and get our bodies right and come back next week and get ready to work.



Q: What is the identity of this team offensively?

A: We are still trying to find it. We are trying to find exactly what we are going to do. We will get it together. It is something that just takes time.



Q: Is the bye coming a perfect time for you too because you didn’t start on time at the beginning of the season and now you are in a groove, but now you have to take a week off again… Would you rather just keep playing?

A: It doesn’t really matter. It is just part of the schedule. You have to go with it. Get a little bit of rest and make sure you get your body right. I am not complaining.



Q: Do you feel at all that you are completely caught up or close to caught up now from whatever you missed during training camp?

A: To an extent. I have three games under my belt, but that is no preseason or training camp so I am still trying to get my football legs underneath me.



Q: You come off this stretch where you lost your last two… You go into the bye week 3-4 and you have a tough schedule ahead… How do you view where this football team is at?

A: At 3-4, we just have to keep continuing to get better. Make sure we all do our assignments. I feel like a lot of games this year we have beat ourselves. Those are things great teams can’t do. We have to eliminate the mistakes and keep playing football.



Q: What was [Coach Coughlin’s] message to you guys as you go on the break?

A: Make sure you get your body right and come back next week ready to work. We are 3-4. It is a long season.



Q: You feel you have made a quick contribution, but do you feel like the best is ahead for you in this second half?

A: Definitely. There are things that I need to correct from yesterday’s game. It is little things that we all need to do better.



Q: What is different for you from game-to-game… From your first game when you got out there… Is anything slowing down for you or becoming more natural?

A: It is still all fast. It is the NFL. Everything is moving fast. I still have to catch myself from time-to-time telling myself to slow down. I think it is natural when you are young like that and you are coming onto a new level to just try and slow it down. It is a difficult thing to do sometimes.



Q: What happened on that play where there was too many men in the huddle?

A: You have to know the formations. It was a whole team assignment and we all messed up on it. Calling out the personnel. I will take the blame for it, but as a team we all have to communicate better.



Q: You do have young players in key positions, but in the second half of the season will you not look at yourself as a rookie?

A: They tell me each and every day that you are a vet now and you need to carry yourself as one and play as one. The whole routine as a [veteran player]. I am trying my best to step up and do whatever I can to help this team.



Q: Is it your coaches or teammates saying that?

A: Teammates.