A month after the Giants’ playoff loss to the Packers, wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. finally addressed the hole he put in a wall outside the visitors’ locker room at Lambeau Field.
“Honestly, I’ve learned my lesson about that,” Beckham said during a guest appearance on ESPN’s Super Bowl pregame show. “I didn’t sit there and punch a wall. It was literally a piece of paper, sheetrock and it just happened.”
Co-host Steve Young quickly changed the topic by joking that he put holes in the wall at Lambeau Field during his career. Former Jets coach Rex Ryan, who was also a guest on the panel, said Beckham isn’t perfect, “but you can come play for me any time. I got to get a job first.”
Beckham’s postgame action wasn’t laughed off by head coach Ben McAdoo or general manager Jerry Reese, who said the 24-year-old needs to grow up. Beckham wasn’t asked about those comments in the light setting.
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The other hot topic Beckham addressed was the infamous trip to Miami with teammates Victor Cruz, Sterling Shepard and Roger Lewis six days before the Giants’ Wild-Card round game against the Packers. Cruz expressed regret about the trip in interview earlier this week.
“I talked to him about it and I think what he was saying was all the extra attention and distraction it caused for our team and our organization, I don’t think any of us wanted that,” Beckham said. “That’s where regrets may lie. But as far as going back on it, you live and you learn. You make decisions and you have to live with the consequences. You have to be willing to do that and that was case. It’s something that I’ll be able to look back on in life and you just grow from it. That’s all you can do. You have to take it and move on. I can’t sit back and keep continuing to dwell on it otherwise I won’t really be living life.”
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