New York Giants: Why Apologizing For The Miami Trip Isn’t Enough

The New York Giants wide receivers apologized for the Miami Trip prior to their Wild Card game against the Green Bay Packers; is an apology enough?

New York Giants wide receiver Victor Cruz came out with a statement this week saying that if he could do it all over again, he wouldn’t have gone to Miami.

News flash Victor, no one should’ve gone to Miami.

The sports world gave the Giants wide receiving corps tons of backlash for their trip to the “Magic City”, but let me be perfectly clear; Giants fans don’t give a s*** about the trip. What Giants fans care about is the fact that the team played so poorly in Green Bay.

Giants fans are a very special breed. They take everything the team does very personally, and when something stirs the pot like this, there is going to be controversy. To Giants fans everywhere, the mini-vacation seemed like another Odell Beckham Jr. stunt, and they loved it.

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They got behind their receivers and believed that it was setting Beckham Jr. up to have an immaculate game against one of the NFL’s most storied franchises. Fast forward to about 10 minutes into the Wild Card game against the Packers, and the controversy just continued to build.

Beckham Jr. and Sterling Shepard both drop touchdown passes and suddenly the opinion began to switch. The trip meant everything to this game, and Joe Buck and Troy Aikman especially couldn’t let that go.

The Packers go up 14-6 at the half, and the rest is history, but the trip to Miami is still in the news. If any other fans reading this were like my father when Beckham Jr. dropped the touchdown and started screaming “What was that? Catch the damn ball,” then that person should agree with what is about to be said next.

Victor Cruz, Odell Beckham Jr., Sterling Shepard, and Roger Lewis all shouldn’t have been on that boat for one reason. Not because it took their mind off the game, but because it gives Giants fans another reason to put huge pressure on them going into next season.

This should be one of the best wide receiving groups in the league, but when something so childish happens, the fans that love these players so much will very quickly turn on them. Yes, these are 20-30-year-old guys that play a sport for a living, but they are under the biggest microscope that any person could be under.

They are professionals, not kids, and now they are going to hear from Giants fans about it. A football player’s career is one of the most short-lived careers any person could have. There is only a certain number of years a player has to win and win at a high volume.

Cruz has a Super Bowl ring, but the other guys around him don’t have any sort of a legacy. If each of their careers ended tomorrow, they’d be remembered for the boating trip (and Odell had that catch against Dallas of course).

So yes, the Giants wide receivers should be very apologetic about what they did. They should realize that after going on this trip and playing so poorly that they insulted Giants fans all across the nation, but they all have a chance to make it right.

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Beckham Jr. is slated to cover the Super Bowl for ESPN, but after the roller coaster he and the rest of the receivers put Giants fans through this season, he should focus on helping the team suit up for the Super Bowl, not watch it.

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