ON HIGHWAY TO TERRELL!

Giants must save Beckham before he becomes next Owens

Grow up, Odell. It only took three years, but the Giants have finally tired of Odell Beckham Jr.’s, diva act and are ready to hold him accountable for his destructive actions that are trending towards T.O.-ville.

GM Jerry Reese has an excellent relationship with Beckham, but when he called him into his office Monday, he didn’t hold back.

“We all have had to grow up in different times in our lives, I think,” Reese said. “I think it’s time for him to do that.”

Reese’s talk with Beckham came at least one year too late, but it’s not too late to set up precautions so he doesn’t implode and screw up a potential Hall of Fame career. Reese should arrange for Beckham to meet with Derek Jeter and David Wright and go to school on how they’ve navigated their celebrity athlete status in New York without creating negative headlines.

Eli Manning has tried to help OBJ — they have the bond of attending the same private high school in New Orleans a generation apart — and said some harsh things Monday. He admitted his attempt at humor last week about the Miami trip was designed to deflect attention away from it.

But Beckham has not listened to Manning. Now he needs an intervention from outside the locker room before he implodes.

“I see a guy who needs to think about some of the things that he does,” Reese

said. “Everybody knows he’s a gifted player. There are some things that he’s done that he needs to look at himself in the mirror and be honest with himself. I think he’ll do that. We’ll help him with that, but he has to help himself. We believe he will do that. He’s a smart guy but sometimes he doesn’t do smart things.”

That’s about as close as Reese will ever come to criticizing one of his players, even though he would not publicly criticize him for the Miami trip. Beckham, who did not make himself available to the media on baggie day one day after the Giants were eliminated 38-13 by the Packers, put a hole in the wall down the hall from the Giants locker room in the bowels on Lambeau Field after Sunday’s game. It was curious Reese and Ben McAdoo would not specifically answer whether Beckham did any damage to his hand. The wall-crushing blow came after Beckham held his post-game news conference in the interview room and he was fully changed and out of uniform, so it was not likely he made the hole with his helmet.

Reese is ready to present Beckham with the bill once the team completes its own investigation and he gets a bill from the Packers.

“He has been here for three years now and is a little bit of a lightning rod because of what he does on the football field, but the things that he does off the football field, he’s got to be responsible for those things,” Reese said. “We’ll talk through it. I know he’s a smart guy. I believe he understands that he has a responsibility being one of the faces of this franchise and I think he’ll accept that responsibility.”

It’s easy to connect the dots between Beckham’s ridiculously timed mini-vacation to Miami last week six days before his first playoff game and the worst game of his career in Green Bay.

Anybody who condones Beckham flying to Miami last Sunday night with Victor Cruz, Sterling Shepard and Roger Lewis, partying with Justin Bieber and pulling an all-nighter before hanging out on a yacht where drugs were reportedly around, has little idea how a locker room works and simply wants to join the long list of Beckham enablers. Beckham is not a locker room cancer, but it doesn’t take much to get there if the nonsense continues.

He dropped an easy third down pass on

We all have had to grow up in different times in our lives, I think. I think it’s time for him to do that. JERRY REESE

the better of the team, those are the teams that somehow find ways to win games.

“I thought we had guys obviously committed to getting better last year, we didn't win in the end but I didn't think it was a lack of commitment,” Manning added. “We've got to keep that hunger, keep that commitment.”

Manning said he is not worried about Beckham's maturity but did insinuate Beckham was among plenty of Giants with a lot to learn.

“I don't have concerns,” Manning said. “I think Odell does ... he's passionate. He is passionate and he wants to win. This was important for him. He wanted to go out there and have the best game of his career. And maybe put too much pressure on himself or emphasis.

“Going to the playoffs is different,” the QB added. “It's different for everybody, and we didn't have a whole lot of people who had been to the playoffs. And you hate to say it's a learning experience for a group - and I hate to say that when I'm in my 13th year - but sometimes guys have got to go through what it's like to understand that they can't make it bigger than what it is. You've got to have a calm mindset and just go out there and play football. Relax and bring out your best. Don't try to play your best, you've got to trust the training. But I think Odell's gonna be fine. Every year is just a learning experience for him.”