Odell Beckham Jr. still has a big problem with the Big Apple.
Specifically, the Browns top wideout has an issue with the guy who traded him to Cleveland, New York Giants general manager Dave Gettleman.
Beckham, who has gone off on Gettleman and the G-Men in the past, said in an interview with GQ that he”felt disrespected” by the deal that sent him to Cleveland earlier this offseason.
“My initial reaction was not disappointment. … I felt disrespected. Like, after everything I’ve done for them,” Beckham told the publication. “This is me being honest: This team has not been good for the last six years. Period. Even the year we went to the playoffs and everyone was talking about this and that. And we went there, and I didn’t have a great playoff game. Don’t get me wrong, I had a terrible game. But I left the game with seven targets, and I’m supposed to be your number one receiver. I left the game with seven targets. We lost. They scored 40 points. It’s just all bad.”
The 26-year-old also said that he considered retirement before the trade even went down because of all the media scrutiny he received while playing in New York.
“All the time, bro. Literally every day. Especially on those days I’m down,” Beckham said of his retirement thoughts. “I could’ve done any sport in the world. Not many people know, but I used to talk to my momma and I’d be like, ‘Ma, if I was done doing this now, would you still be proud of me?’ And this was a couple of years ago, about two or three years ago.”
Still, don’t expect Beckham to retire anytime soon as he’s only in the second year of $95 million five-year contract extension he signed last August
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