ESPN- In the spring, when the Giants were listening to trade inquiries — the Rams and 49ers were the two teams reported to be interested, but there were others — one curious club hired a private investigator to track Beckham. The Paris video had introduced drug-use rumors that teams wanted to run down, even if recreational drug use falls below his surgically repaired ankle on most teams’ list of concerns. The PI’s report set off no alarms, but despite the Giants being “50-50″ on their willingness to trade him, according to a league source with knowledge of the situation, no team would meet their asking price, which was believed to be a pair of first-rounders.
-------- Yup, I think that is where I draw the line. I understand the need for educated investments when deciding on something as frowned upon as giving a wide receiver quarterback money. Hell, I even understand that due diligence reaching crazy ex, online stalker status when said wide receiver is just as prone to being a needy, high maintenance attention whore of a distraction as he is to take a run-of-the-mill slant pattern 77 yards to pay dirt...
If only for a second, however, let's set aside the fact that professional athletes are, in fact, people that deserve what little privacy they are privy to, even if the player in question typically doesn't take advantage of it. Regardless of that privacy being breached in this instance, I just think you're too highly inclined to have your biases confirmed when you're so paranoid about someone's personal life that you make the decision to have him/her professionally pursued. Perhaps sampling from those featured on a white trash, before-its-time reality show taints my personal "study", but if Cheaters taught me anything it's that the results of a private investigation are more likely to lead to some sort of stabbing than they are to lead to a healthy, long-term, and mutually beneficial partnership. Even if it was only in a baseline business sense, the New York Giants had to trust Odell Beckham Jr. to guarantee him $65 million dollars. Me thinks that Sherlock Holmes would have had to find himself parked outside of a homeless shelter, a children's hospital, or a monastery for a month straight for the franchise that hired him to reach the level of comfort required to trade at one-two 1st round picks for the right to negotiate a market resetting deal with a demonstrative diva that keeps both his employer and defenses up at night. More importantly, desperately trying to catch Odell Beckham Jr. engaging in questionable behavior is just a gross mischaracterization of the main problem plaguing Odell Beckham Jr., which is that all of his questionable behavior gets circulated throughout the internet in about 10 minutes time anyway. We're talking about a monster created by millennials, so Dick f'n Tracy wasn't about to report back anything that couldn't have been found by checking in on OBJ's SnapChat or searching his name on Twitter. The following is coming from someone who has been highly critical of the personality in question for quite some time. Aside from one short video in which recreational drugs made an appearance, Odell Beckham Jr. isn't some shady, criminal minded scumbag who is lurking in the shadows looking for trouble. He's just an insatiable narcissist, which means every precarious situation he finds himself in will be under the brightest of lights. Therefore, it probably would have been best to just save the type of money that a Private Eye commands now-a-days, for his findings would have been merely as helpful in deciding whether to take on the occasional headache that accompanies the most transcendent of talent for full price (and then some) as a YouTube deep dive. I know this may be tough for a half-dead generation of GM's to understand, but - with someone like Odell Beckham Jr. - you don't have to literally have him followed to follow him.
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