Stop us if you’ve heard this before. Odell Beckham Jr. has been fined, and this time it’s for his criticism of officials after the New York Giants’ 24-14 loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers on the road. The NFL docked him of $12,154, according to ProFootballTalk.
Odell Beckham Jr. fined for criticism of officials in Week 13
Beckham said that “Stevie Wonder could see” the missed calls.
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Beckham told reporters after the game, “Like I said, everybody knows what’s going on, on the field. Everybody can see it. Even Stevie Wonder can see it,” Beckham said via NJ.com. “It just, it is what it is. You can’t do anything about it. There’s no point. I don’t know why, I shouldn’t have even brought it up. It’s always a lose-lose situation, bringing something up.”
He also said that officials weren’t the reasons the Giants lost. He added that Terry McAulay’s crew shouldn’t work Giants games, and said that an official didn’t like when Beckham approached him about an OPI call.
Statistically, the Steelers were called for more penalties than the Giants. The Steelers were called for 12, in comparison to the Giants’ four, but Beckham’s gripe appeared to be with no-calls.
Plays like this one, Beckham felt, should have been called for penalties against the Steelers:
Beckham and the Giants have had the same officiating crew in Week 3 earlier this season, when he claimed referees gave him a warning beforehand.
“They came up before the game and said, ‘if you do anything, we’re throwing you out of the game,”’ Beckham told reporters, via USA TODAY. “That was before the game. There was, ‘no, you get a warning.’ There was not any of that.”
It was the same officiating crew from last season’s heated matchup between the Carolina Panthers and Giants, when Beckham and Josh Norman got a little too physical.
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