NYG Postgame (vs. Bears) Transcripts: Wide Receiver Odell Beckham Jr. -- December 2, 2018
Q: How important was it to close this one out and come away with the win?
A: It’s just important to win. Close game, not a close game, like I said pretty much all year, we’ve been here before and recently in the last four weeks, we’ve pulled them off except one. So we know how to lose these games, we know how to win these games, it’s just a matter of what the outcome is going to be on that day. As a team, we put it all together and found a way to beat a very, very good team.
Q: Can you walk us through your touchdown pass?
A: Honestly, I addressed the team at halftime and I told them there’s just something I had to get off my chest. I love these boys. Every time I put on a helmet, whether it’s practice or it’s a game, I’m going to give it my all and I feel like I owed them more, to give them all of me and whatever that entails. So we drew a play up, I told Bennie (Fowler) I don’t care what happens, I’m going to throw it to you and they double covered him and this grown man from LSU who I’ve played with for a long time, I saw him down the middle of the field and I was like this can’t be real and I just launched it to him. It’s all good, he wasn’t supposed to do that, but he’s just playing football and he came up with a huge play for us. Very, very, very big play.
Q: Did you see him at the last second?
A: Yeah, I was about to take off running and like I said it didn’t feel real because I just saw him running down the field and it was never like that in practice or how we drew it up, nothing. I just saw him and I was like I’m just going to give him a chance, I’m going to put it in that area and he came up big for us.
Q: That’s two for two now for you.
A: You know.
Q: Take us through the onside kick.
A: It was a great kick. Honestly, when it took the hop, the guys on the front line kind of looked like we were in a position where we didn’t know if they were going to get it, if they wanted me to go get it and I was just so far back when they passed the ball, I was trying to run up there and get in the mix and I got to it late.
Q: Did you have a chance to dive for it?
A: It sounds like a question you’re asking just to ask kind of, you know?
Q: How did your touchdown catch unfold?
A: Just a play we drew up every single day and we just got down to it and we ran it, executed it.
Q: How did you get so wide open?
A: Scheme. There’s a lot of people crossing down at the goal line and it’s hard to cover. You don’t know whether to switch, swap, does he run with me? Does he switch it? It just worked out.
Q: On the onside kick…
A: It sounds like you’re asking a question just to ask a question. I’m not going to talk about that. Sorry. The game is over, we won.
Q: What improvements did you guys make today?
A: We just fought, that’s really all it is, we fought. Like I said we’ve lost games by three points, we’ve lost games by four points, we’ve won them by three, we’ve won them by four. We’ve been in this position and we fought. Everybody in here gave it their all to the final whistle. Tried to get a stop by the goal line and they ran a nice play, they converted it and scored. We get in on offense, we get a big run from Saquon (Barkley), we tried to push it to the end zone, we couldn’t get there and (Aldrick) Rosas hits a 57-yard field goal, puts us up three and the defense needs a stop, they made the stop and came up with a big play at the end.
Q: How can you get the fans to believe in you guys again?
A: It’s tough. That’s something that comes from inside the person that wants to believe. I can try to put all of the belief that I can speak, but words can only do so much. It has to be in your heart to have hope for us, to believe in us to do any of those things.
Q: Did you decide on the way into the locker room that you were going to address the team?
A: No, it was just something in my heart. In a way, I feel like I let them down. When I came into the building today, it was just a different feeling and I didn’t know how to shake it. I was just trying to find a way and I see these guys out here who were battling and I tried to give it my all. So when I talked to them, I’m emotional. I’m very in tune with myself so as I’m speaking to them, it’s just flying out. It’s whatever thoughts are coming out. I feel like they took the message well and we’re in this locker room with a good feeling.
Q: What was your message?
A: Go out there and lay it all on the line no matter what the situation is, no matter what play, no matter anything. Go out there and give it your all.
Q: What would your response be to people questioning your effort on the onside kick?
A: It was a great kick. Sometimes somebody makes a better play than you do. I could dive in there and still not get the ball. So it was a very tough call. Nobody should ever question my effort or my heart. That’s the last thing you can do. You can question me as a person, as a man, whatever you want to do, but my heart and my effort can never be questioned, ever.
It’s pretty much “please Odell, give us a sound bite. We need more clicks.”
It still doesn’t excuse OBJs effort.
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What a disgrace. The guys who fucked up that on-side kick were the forward players who were supposed to block for those behind them.
It still doesn’t excuse OBJs effort.
Dep, you used to be an okay dude.
When the fuck did you become so insufferable?
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What a disgrace. The guys who fucked up that on-side kick were the forward players who were supposed to block for those behind them.
It still doesn’t excuse OBJs effort.
Dep, you used to be an okay dude.
When the fuck did you become so insufferable?
I am not shitting on the game he played. Hell, I am not even laying blame on the INT when some posters are.
But that effort wasn’t good. It could have cost us the game. It doesn’t mean he sucks, it didn’t mean he played poorly. But he definitely didn’t do what he had to do in the onside kick.
He hesitated either due to not playing ST enough, think like some of his other errors on punt return, or he simply does not want to mix it up nasty diving for balls. I do not know what it is, I hope it is not a business type decision but who knows?
The Giants won and they are starting to look like a real NFL team. That is what matters, Beckham's unreal throw on that option pass was a great play as well.
On the onside kick...
Thank you for the rational post. It’s not all or nothing with these guys...OBJ overall has played hard and been a team player. Looked like shit effort on the onside kick. Followed by great effort on Saquon’s OT run.
And in other news, Serby’s a twerp.
On the onside kick...
Newton pussying out on that fumble in the Super Bowl and than admitting he did it to save his own health is one of the most unbelievable things I have ever seen in football. That was the Super Bowl and to give up like that, to give up on your teammates in that game is staggering and speaks to the type of man Newton is. I hope he never wins the big one and he likely never will. I don't even know how he faced his teammates after that one and years ago someone might have lit him up in the locker room.
Disgusting.
Beckham's play yesterday on the kick has shades of that, but he also seems to lack awareness on specials in general. If you won't sell out to get the ball, don't be on the the hands team.
It doesn't mean you think that OBJ had a bad game.
It doesn't mean you hate OBJ or that you're a shitty Giants' fan. It simply means that you can view the game objectively and not make excuses for a player's poor effort.
And OBJ should have answered the presser question too.
Don't put the diva on the 'hands team' anymore, it's obvious he doesn't want to do it, simply don't do it.
That's how you show you leadership to your teammates,
in case you didn't know, which you don't!
It doesn't mean you think that OBJ had a bad game.
It doesn't mean you hate OBJ or that you're a shitty Giants' fan. It simply means that you can view the game objectively and not make excuses for a player's poor effort.
And OBJ should have answered the presser question too.
"It was a great kick..."
The kick was perfect.
OBJ made a bad play.
It's a risk for OBJ to go diving headfirst into oncoming traffic, but thats what it takes to win.