Odell Beckham Jr.’s mind-boggling stats through 25 career games
For context, when a quarterback throws a pass away the player registers as a 39.6 passer rating, so teams are nearly better off just giving up completely on the play rather than testing Norman in the secondary.
Beckham, after a slow start to his sophomore season, now has six successive 100-yard receiving games and five touchdown catches in his last five games. Landry is tied with New York Jets wide receiver Brandon Marshall for the league lead in receptions amongst wide receivers with 89.
They wouldn’t have done it without another virtuoso performance by Manning. He only threw four incompletions and completed his passes 27 times for 337 yards along with four touchdowns. The former mark of 84.6 percent (22 of 26) was set by Kerry Collins at St. Louis on September 15, 2002. Beckham returned and caught two touchdown passes, both very different and altogether spectacular, to turn a 24-17 Giants deficit into a 31-24 victory Monday night that saves the season and allows the Giants to stay in contention in the wacky NFC East.
The 300-yard game was Manning’s fifth of the season and the 38 of his career. But of all people, his coach dissed that hypothesis today on a conference call.
“I hope it’s nothing more than just the re-aggravation of that injury”, Coughlin said on a teleconference with local reporters. “We connected on a big play at a crucial time”. If either of those two wins out, that team wins the division. He caught 7 passes for 166 yards and two touchdowns.
While formidable, the Panthers defense has allowed at least one opposing wide receiver to score at least 10 fantasy points in a handful of recent outings.
That resulted in Beckham Jr. making play after play.
“Actually it helped”, Coughlin said. He was a big play threat every time he touched the ball.
After the game, Beckham said at his locker that the Giants prepared for the Dolphins like a playoff game and must continue to do so over the next three weeks as they push for the post-season. “I think that’s where it all came from”.
They were the ones where quarterback Eli Manning took a knee to run off the final seconds – the so-called victory formation. They scored 31 against a Dolphins team that has tried to make defense its calling card the last several offseasons. In discussing that, he paraphrased the message his teammates said he had delivered to them. “We’ll see what guys really like football, and find the ones that don’t, and we’ll get them out of here”. “I was just trying to make a play”.
“We thought it would be a big play”, Manning said, “but I didn’t think he would be that open”.
“Anytime you have that kind of confidence, there will be a certain measure of accomplishment”, Coughlin said.
Fortunately for them, it’s also the way they emerged from it. They still face a daunting challenge. In 2012, he started all 13 games and was a consensus first-team All-America selection, while totaling 85 tackles (57 solo) and 12.5 sacks, which ranked ninth in the nation. In Week 12, a couple of fluky interceptions cost them, despite Manning converting 9 of 18 targets to Beckham for 142 yards and a TD. “To me, that’s how you get motivated to win because you get exhausted of losing and it stinks”. It’s going to be tough.