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The Giants’ Season Is Over—and Odell Beckham Jr. Has a Point

It seems like so very long ago that I sat down to innocently watch an NFL pregame show and was confronted by the harrowing words COMING UP: ODELL SOUNDS OFF ON THE GIANTS in the corner of my TV screen. After all, so much has happened since that moment: There have been two New York Giants losses, each one painful in its own way. There has been a sprawling seven-part Instagram video series from the rapper Lil Wayne (“Little Wayne” as pronounced by Eli Manning) addressing topics like Frank Isola, an incarcerated uncle, and Manning family workouts. There has been a heated encounter with a cooling fan, a possible institutional cover-up involving dehydration, the sparkling performance of perhaps the most exciting element of the Giants’ future, and the brutal demise of the franchise’s core. And yet somehow, all of this has taken place in less than a week, as if the Giants are aging in dog years, which would be fitting, because everything about the team lately is extremely woof. Odell Be...