Banner day of 1-handed
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Odell Beckham Jr. was the perfect Giant to point up at one of the franchise’s four Super Bowl banners on Monday and guarantee a fifth one before his time is up with Big Blue. Beckham will need to carry the Giants at some point to deliver on his promise. His play this season largely will dictate whether Ben McAdoo’s team sets foot in Minnesota’s U.S. Bank Stadium on Feb. 4, 2018. So he might as well have been the one to set their course publicly on Aug. 14, 2017. “See that banner?” Beckham said Monday, pointing to the enormous Lombardi Trophy along the wall above the words ‘Giants 2011 World Champions.’ “That’s all I care about. Honestly, there’s one, two, three, four in here. I don’t know where they’d put the fifth one, but they’re gonna have to make room, ’cause we need it.”
Speaking confidently isn’t enough, though, and Beckham undoubtedly understands that. He seemingly has embraced the reality more is required of him despite a recordbreaking first three NFL regular seasons.
Beckham admitted how poorly he handled his first career playoff game in Green Bay in January.
“I wasn’t able to capture the moment and did it in a horrible way, in a way that I woke up out my sleep to (and) didn’t think it was real,” he said.
He opened up about how he has turned the “pain” of that disappointment “into positive energy.”
And he reflected most poignantly on the process of catching a football: Drops were his downfall in Green Bay, but a one-handed catch against Dallas in 2014 made him famous, and Beckham’s one-handed catches the past two camp practices were more reminders of how routinely electric he can be.
“It’s really crazy,” Beckham said. “Any time the