At this point, it's very clear that Odell Beckham Jr. does not enjoy playing wide receiver for an Eli Manning "led" team, and the truth is that no one can really blame him for that. The Giants are unbearably awful, and - as bad as they are - the offensive line isn't entirely to blame for rendering inept a unit that has no shortage of top-end talent. The aging quarterback, whose best days are both far behind him and were never really better than slightly above average anyway, is killing his team's ability to be even mildly mediocre offensively, and frustrations have boiled over as a result. I just can't understand how the main source of those frustrations, who has now somehow made an actual habit of fist-fighting intimate objects, still can't comprehend that every one of his episodes takes the negative attention away from the person he wants replaced. The truth is that Eli Manning owes Odell Beckham Jr. a "thank you". Obviously it wouldn't be for showing him up by screaming on the sidelines, or for being in such desperate need of hydration that he sulked off the field shaking his head while under his own power with two seconds remaining in the half and his team on offense, or for delivering a three-piece combo to a mechanical fan. Rather, it would be for intentionally doing dumb, dramatic shit that makes just as many headlines as the piss poor quarterback play that instigates them. Odell Beckham Jr., though he doesn't realize it, might as well be extending an olive branch to Eli Manning every time he engages in some infantile bullshit that even slightly lessens the load of the scrutiny that he's sure to face. The fact is, Odell Beckham Jr. is a distraction. He's most certainly not the type of distraction that is costing the Giants football games, as he could have simply sat down Indian style with his arms crossed in anger during every one of his routes and it wouldn't have effected the outcome of the game. He is, however, the type of distraction that is detracting from his own Lil' Wayne supported message. Even one second that's wasted talking about the antics of an attention whore of an All-World wideout is a second that wasn't spent talking about the failures of the player that's leaving him comically underutilized. As the Giants are currently misconstructed, Odell Beckham Jr. is just about the furthest thing from the problem, but the guy who signed on the dotted line for tip-top dollar knowing damn well who his quarterback was going to be this season certainly does have an uncanny way of making it more difficult to focus fully on the actual problem.
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