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Victor Cruz: Giants Intentionally Tried To Keep My Production Down

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Victor Cruz has a beef with the Giants.

The veteran wide receiver, who was released this offseason following seven years with Big Blue, has hinted that his former team purposely didn’t throw the ball his way in 2016, adding the reason for it was to make his departure easier.

“I felt it all year long,” Cruz told the nationally syndicated radio show The Breakfast Club on Thursday. “Halfway through the year I’m ballin’, the other half I’m not getting the ball. And you’re just like, ‘what’s going on?’ It was like, ‘OK, I see what’s happening.