All of the Giants in the locker room on Wednesday said they have Odell Beckham Jr.’s back.
But on Sunday, it was hard to find evidence of that.
While Beckham and Josh Norman of the Panthers were trading haymakers, body slams and, eventually, a helmet-to-helmet hit, few of the other Giants players on the field stepped forward to intervene. Here was their best player in altercation after altercation, after being threatened that the Panthers planned to end his career, and he couldn’t get the muscle to back him up and possibly prevent a one-game suspension?
There is no way Brandon Jacobs, Ahmad Bradshaw, Rich Seubert or even the much-maligned Preston Parker would have allowed those skirmishes between Beckham and Norman to go unchecked.