Welcome back. It's the big blue banter New York Giants football podcast. I'm Dan Schneier.

Joined as always my co-ist Nick Falado.

And Nick, I went back. I watched some tape this week.

And I decided, Odo Beckham Jr. at 33 years old, could really help the New York football

Giants and more importantly, the development of Jackson Dart as early as this season. And I hope that the Giants give him a workout. I hope that the Giants get serious about this thing. And he's a player that I really want to bring in here. And the reason I believe that is because I went back and watched the tape. And now I'm going to show you guys in a moment a cut up I made of Odo Beckham Jr.'s all-22 tape with the Baltimore Ravens of 2023. Obviously, it's the 2025 season. He had tape with the Dolphins of 2024. I did not choose to include that. I could have, and you could kind of see it from there. The reason I didn't include it is 10fold. First of all, the quarterback situation was an absolute mess. About half of those snaps weren't even with Tua. They were with Tyler Huntley. And once Tyler Huntley came in, the Dolphins ran a just complete shit system where it was just no real routes, no real forward passing game, just manage a game with Tyler Huntley as quarterback. In the games with Tua, the offensive line was a mess. Tua was a mess.

And the routes that Odo Beckham Jr. ran, Nick, were really not the routes that A, he ran with the Ravens in 2023 and B, the routes I would expect him to run with the Giants if they do sign him based on one, what Brian Dable has shown us in the past from a route concept standpoint, and two, what he's shown us in the present with both Dart and Russell Wilson.

If you go back and watch that Dolphin State, you can see some good things from Beckham, but everything is short in breaking routes. Everything is kind of a round line scrimmage. And he wasn't really involved in the offense in any kind of vertical fashion. Now, this Ravens tape is from 2023, but man, everybody says this guy's

washed, Oda Beckham Jr. And I just don't really understand where that comes from. Is it because no team has signed him? Maybe, I guess, but it's certainly not because of the tape in 2024, because he looked fine with the dolphins. And it's certainly not because of the tape, as we're about to see in a moment from 23. Now it's two years later, but he's only 33 years old,

and players like DeAndre Hopkins, DeFonte Adams, these older veteran receivers are still winning at the NFL level despite not being as fast. And the reason is they win with their route running. They win with their savvy, their release package off the line of scrimmage. And for those two players and Odo Becum Jr., Nick, it's with their strong hands. Odo Beckham's always been a player who attacks

the football with his hands and has great grip strength. And you'll see that in this film breakdown as

well. So Nick, I don't think he has the same speed. I don't think he's the same breakaway player.

And I'm not expecting to get some kind of wide receiver one that can replace Malik neighbors. But I think there are a lot of reasons why Odo Beckham Jr. can help the Giants right now win and Jackson Dart. And so before we do any of that and get into the tape, I do want to get your overall thoughts on this potential idea of the Giants signing O'Do Beckham. I'm open to it. Now, there's so many questions that I can't really answer. I don't know the feeling about

Odell Beckham Jr. in the Giants organization, how ownership views him with the departure.

I don't know if O'Dell Beckham has antipathy towards the Giants organization from a, from a management

perspective, or if that went out the window with

Dave gettelman and that regime I have no idea so let's say that this is an this is an

amendable situation and odel be amenable to returning to the giants on a not of that minimum

but a very cheap like a cheap deal a very modest deal just to play with the new York Giants and the young guys and to be, dare I say, even a leader, because as much as people do not like O'Dell Beckham Jr.'s personality for one reason or another, and he had his antics here, which I thought were ludicrous a lot of the times. Yep. Players like him, right? Like players view him as a leader, it seems like, right? A lot of players have a lot of high respect, a lot of respect for O'Dell Beckham Jr. And I think that can go a long way in this locker room that just lost number one. I think the veteran presence of an O'Dell Beckham Jr. Who has had success at a high level could still go a long way.

So I would fully support it if it's on a cheap deal and if the Giants feel like this would be for the best of their locker room. And I just, it's hard for me to really weigh in if that's the case or not. Everyone has an opinion on it, but I'm not in the locker room. And it does seem like if I could glean the information,

players do like him a lot.

So I think there's value there.

Yeah, I agree with you on that.

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