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Friday Media Transcript: WR Odell Beckham Jr.

Eric from BBI : Admin : 11/9/2018 5:19 pm
WR Odell Beckham Jr. -- November 9, 2018

Q: What are you looking to accomplish, personally, over the last eight games of the season?
A: Win eight games. Go 9-7 and go to the playoffs. Giants been there before, 9-7 and got to the playoffs. I think they did pretty good, so that’s the goal. It’s not an easy task, but that’s the goal. We want to win every game, and do anything I can to help that.

Q: How does this team accomplish that?
A: I think doing what we didn’t do in the first half. We’re doing the opposite of what we did in the first half. Scoring points in the red zone, completing drives, all the little things that have held us back. We’ve lost a lot of close games that we just didn’t pull through. We know what situations we’re in when we are in those close games. We just haven’t found a way to pull them through. Just keep working. It’s easy to sit up here and be like we want to win eight games knowing that it’s very tough to do. You just got to pull it all together now.

Q: Do you feel any added pressure to be that spark for the offense?
A: Not any more than I ever have. Hopefully I can start catching some of these things and start taking them to the crib, making bigger plays. I put more on myself. I know that’s something over the bye week, it was good to be able to take a step back and breathe, and get back in it. You got to put your best foot forward for the end of the season. Whatever happens is what’s going to happen, but I know that my mentality is not going to be to quit. I’m not going to be out there not trying to go hard every play. Any chance that I get, that’s just always how I’m going to be. I know we’re not in a very good situation, but you just got to make the most out of that.

Q: Is there a desire to eliminate those red zone problems?
A: I’m with you on that. I think that any chance I get, and all of us – (RB) Saquon (Barkley), (WR Sterling Shepard) Shep, (TE) Evan (Engram), you get a chance to take something to the house, it’s time to go. There’s no more holding back, playing it safe, or waiting for the next play, because you don’t know if you’re going to have a next play, and that’s just the mentality we have to take. Any chance I get now, and I catch one of these slants, there’s no motion wasted. It’s just got to be somebody has got to come catch me. You trust your training, you trust your speed – somebody has got to come catch me. I’m trying as much as I can to make these plays, explosive plays, and we all need to do that.

Q: Why haven’t you all been able to get those big, explosive plays?
A: Not to say that the opportunities haven’t been there, but they’ve been limited. They haven’t been the same look. Like I said, I remember the one in Houston where I felt like I could’ve just hit it, and now it’s just time. I always have felt towards the, I don’t know statistically, but towards the back end of the season, I feel like I do better. As the season goes on, people’s bodies start to break down. I really try to maintain and I really try to be better than I was Week 1 at Week 10, and I feel a lot stronger going in towards the back end of the season. Now, it’s just time to do that really.

Q: You think it’s the shape you’re in?
A: Honestly, I feel like I’m in the best shape of my life. With the training and everything that I had, the rehab, the strength stuff I still do, I feel like as the season goes on, I get stronger, I get faster, or maybe I stay the same and other people are slowing down, but either way it goes, I feel almost an advantage towards the end of the season.

Q: You only say that after your birthday, right?
A: (laughter) If we would’ve had a game this week, I probably would’ve had the best game of my life, because every time it’s around my birthday, even in high school – high school, I played on my birthday, I had five touchdowns. When I was five years old on my golden birthday, I scored five goals in soccer. Around my birthday time, I don’t know what it is, it’s the universe, the energy, whatever it is, I just play better, I just do better. It’s still Scorpio season, so it’s time to turn up.

Q: Are you considering this your birthday game then?
A: I guess it is. I’m going to have to. It’s really (former Giants WR) Victor Cruz’s birthday. So, I’m going to have to do something for him. Hopefully I can score and do the salsa for him, or something, but it still is Scorpio season. It’s time for me to step it up.

Q: You said it’s not an easy task to get to 9-7. Is that a realistic task?
A: Anything is possible. You heard (former Boston Celtics Forward) Kevin Garnett when he won? Yeah, anything is possible (laughter).

Q: Are you going to do that for us?
A: No, my voice is going to crack. I don’t want to embarrass myself. It’s not impossible to win eight games. It wasn’t impossible to lose seven. Anything can happen, but the main focus is just this one game. Treat this game like this is your last game of the season. We want to go out with a win. Let’s say you win that game, alright, now you’re focused on the next one. This is the last game. You got to win it. Everything is a must-win for us. We want to win. That’s going to be the goal going forward, is to win.

Q: I think you and (Texans DE) J.J. Watt had something on social media last season in regards to Comeback Player of the Year. Do you pay attention to what’s going on around the league?
A: No, but I did watch the guys who did get injured. (49ers CB Richard Sherman) When Sherm went down, (Buccaneers WR) DeSean (Jackson), all these guys, because this a brotherhood that we have. In my mind, I’m not competing against them. I like their success. I like that Sherm came back and he’s playing at a high level. Excited to go against him. We went against each other my rookie year. This is a guy who I’ve been at the Pro Bowl with, a guy who’s big brother-ish, and he kind of gives me the advice and he showed me the ropes, and all those things. So, I keep close with those guys who did go down last season. I don’t know where I stand as far as the race with them, or anything like that. It hasn’t really been my concern. My concern was coming off an injury, or not coming off an injury to have the best season I’ve had yet so far this season. That’s still always going to be the goal. That’s what I’m working on.

Q: With all the goals that you’ve set for yourself, Comeback Player of the Year was something that probably wasn’t on your radar.
A: No, it never was, nor would it be Most Improved, or any accolades like that -- Super Bowls and MVPs, those -- but those I never really imagined being in a Comeback Player of the Year race, but if I get a chance to win it, I’ll take it.
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