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Giants need Saquon Barkley to be what Odell Beckham was not

As training camp approaches next week, Post NFL columnist Steve Serby looks at the biggest characters in the world of the Jets and Giants.

So much changed for Saquon Barkley on March 12, the night Dave Gettleman traded Odell Beckham Jr., the mercurial wide receiver Gettleman didn’t sign to trade.

Gettleman gave up on the tantalizing vision of Beckham and Barkley terrorizing defenses together for years, gave up on Beckham because he was not his idea of a Stepford Giant.

So now he hands the ball and the offense to Barkley, his dream Giant, touched by the hand of God and a gold-jacket guy and all that.