Eli Manning may be getting up there in age, but he is certainly not too old to deliver a good burn.
Earlier this week, Odell Beckham Jr. made a claim that he kept the New York Giants relevant even though they kept losing games.
“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,” Odell said to GQ.
“I felt disrespected, because I felt like I was a main reason at keeping that brand alive. They were getting prime-time games, still, as a 5-and-11 team. Why? Because people want to see the show. You want to see me play. That’s just real rap.”
He continued … “I’m not sitting here like, ‘It’s because of me.’ But let’s just be real. That’s why we’re still getting prime-time games. I felt disrespected they weren’t even man enough to even sit me down to my face and tell me what’s going on.”
New York Giants QB Eli Manning was asked about those comments on Thursday and his response was one of the smoothest burns we’ve read in quite some time.
“I don’t think they bothered me,” Manning said of the quotes … “You just kind of shake your head and laugh.
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“I won a few games before he was here,” the QB said.
He’s not lying. He only won two super bowls before Odell came onto the scene. Since his arrival, the Giants could only muster one playoff appearance that was marred in controversy after Odell took a few teammates
