I Don't Know How I Am Supposed To Feel About News That Odell Beckham's Injury Is A 6-8 Week Injury
ESPN- Odell Beckham Jr. returned to practice in a limited capacity Thursday, revealing that he’s dealing with a six- to eight-week injury timeline for his ankle that has already cost him the New York Giants’ season opener against the Dallas Cowboys. It has been 24 days since Beckham went down following an ugly preseason hit that bent his left leg inward on a Monday night against the Cleveland Browns. The Giants play the Detroit Lions this Monday night, exactly four weeks since the injury.
Beckham, despite testing the ankle before the Giants’ 19-3 loss to the Cowboys, wasn’t really close to playing Sunday because he hadn’t practiced all week. “I don’t really know how realistic it was,” Beckham said. “As bad as I wanted to play, it just wasn’t there. It had been three weeks after the injury. It hasn’t even been a month since it happened. This is a six- to eight-week thing. Unfortunately, as much as I was trying my hardest to get there, it just wasn’t enough time.”
So this injury is just going to be a roller coaster of emotions, huh? When I saw ODB go down on that awful night in that awful city, I immediately thought the worse. His knee was spaghetti and the Giants season was toast. Rock bottom. Then reports started to trickle out that it was an ankle injury and the knee was fine. No longer rock bottom. In fact, I was downright thrilled that our best player was in the clear outside of any type of break. Then it came out that it was an ankle sprain and there was a chance Odell could play Week 1 in Dallas. WE ARE GUCCI!!! Obviously Odell didn’t play, but it seemed like the Giants were holding him back so he didn’t aggravate the injury right at the war of attrition known as the NFL season. We figured he would be back by Monday night against the Lions with words like “optimism” being floated around all willy nilly.
But then this report dropped from the clouds and people on Twitter are running around like the sky is falling. Gifs of Tommen Baratheon jumping out of the window and that dude drinking bleach were everywhere. It appeared that we are no longer gucci because Odell dropped some timeline numbers on our ass. And I know timelines don’t mean shit. High ankle sprains are basically the devil because you think your player is coming back soon, but he either stays on the shelf or comes back a shell of himself. So Odell coming back 100% a mere 4 weeks after an injury that usually takes 6-8 weeks to heal seemed like a decent leap of faith. Especially from a guy who doesn’t have the best track record for recovering from injuries. Again, if that injury was as bad as it looked, we aren’t even thinking of Odell playing another game. We are hoping his surgically repaired knee is ready for 2018. Which is what I keep telling myself while thinking about having to watch the Giants “offense” potentially play without it’s best player again on Monday night. I don’t know if I have it in me to read the tweets of the other 31 fan bases belly laughing at the Giants on Twitter during prime time two weeks in a row.
And for the people wondering how I feel about Odell reportedly having a dance battle with Russell Westbrook on Monday, let me answer it by saying I have no problem with it at all. Odell Beckham is a great dancer first and foremost and a football player second. He is just an entertainer. Let the man live. You think he is going to tweak his ankle pulling a moonwalk or a spin? No way. Dude’s a professional. There is a difference between having a good enough ankle to dance and a good enough ankle to play professional football. Here’s to hoping Odell’s ankle is good enough for both sooner rather than later so I can stop freaking out about this. I think I may just avoid all this Beckham noise by going with the Hyman Roth nap strategy and sleeping until Monday Night Football. When I wake up, if Beckham is in pads, I’ll know I have a superduperstar receiver on my team that can win a game on offense by himself. If he isn’t, I’ll know I don’t.
Not gonna lie though, this spinzone from heaven made me feel a whole lot better.