Coughlin: Unfair to depict Beckham Jr. as only one wrong

"The 100 Yards" Staff Report

Tom Coughlin

New York Giants coach Tom Coughlin gave a press conference during the team's practice session early Wednesday at the Quest Diagnostics Training Center.

Coughlin said that Odell Beckham Jr. was not at the practice session earlier on Wednesday. Beckham was recently suspended by the NFL, and also has his hearing on Wednesday to determine if he will play this Sunday's game against the Minnesota Vikings.

Coughlin gave his opinion of if Beckham was wrong with his actions or not.

“To depict this as Odell Beckham being wrong, and the only one wrong, is not right,” Coughlin said. “It’s not fair, it’s not justice, it’s not the way it was. If you’re naïve enough to think that way, then you better do some soul-searching yourself. Beckham certainly was wrong, and we said he was wrong from day one. But there were factors involved, starting in pregame, which are well-documented, which indicate that there was an attempt to provoke him. He was provoked, he was out of control, he was wrong, there’s no doubt about it. You’d like that that didn’t happen. But the fact of the matter is, if you know that, the situation pregame with the baseball bat (which a Panthers player carried onto the field during warmups), and if you know what occurred at the very beginning of the game, you can understand that there was two sides to this and not just one. And that’s the only thing I’ll say about that incident."