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Sports psychologist: Odell Beckham Jr. needs to learn “emotional control”

After an emotionally filled 2016, New York Giants wide receiver Odell Beckham Jr. seems to be letting his emotions get the best of him as his career goes on. Especially after punching a hole in a wall at Lambeau Field.

Sports psychologist Dr. John F. Murray chimed in with his thoughts on Beckham while speaking with Metro.

“A diagnosis is never appropriate from afar and if I were working with him clinically I would certainly keep it confidential,” Dr. Murray told Metro. “There are many popular and usually erroneous notions about erratic behavior in sports in which that behavior is connected to bi-polar disorder, borderline personality disorder or some other mental instability.