 But once the Giants selected Saquon Barkley with the second pick of the NFL draft, Odell Beckham Jr. was golden, other than if he did something stupid. And he's done nothing stupid. He's done everything right. He's been at everything he's supposed to be at. He's worked hard. He's gotten healthy from the injury from last year. He's kept his nose clean. And for the most part, the stuff that he's done, even in his first couple of years in the league, has been all Nutnick stuff. Right. Nothing criminal like a lot of people do. He's been just nutty, but certainly not bad. And I think the Giants realized that. And once they took Barkley, they were announcing to their team, to their fans, to the rest of the league, we're trying to win now. We're not taking Sam Darnold, who's gonna take a couple of years to mature and get to be the quarterback we think he's gonna be. We're staying with Eli. Eli's going to be our quarterback for the next couple of years. We're taking Barkley to give him a running back compliment. And obviously we need Odell Beckham Jr. to give us what we expect to get from the wide receiver position. And with all of that done, through nothing that he did, he got this leverage that was unquenchable to the Giants. They had to get him signed. They had to have him ready for the first game. Pat Shermer's done everything right, has not used him in any of the three preseason games, will not use him in the fourth. He's practiced hard. He's been there. He's studied. He's been the perfect teammate. And all of his teammates always loved him anyway. Don, they had to give him the money and they finally did. Yeah, once they decided their role and you can't be all in without Odell Beckham Jr. Now, SportTrack, which does a great job of literally tracking contracts around sports, is a verified account on Twitter, says that the Giants actually will save $3 million this year on the cap with this deal. Right. So when I look at the structure of the deal, Michael, obviously in latter years of the contract, it's gonna affect their cap. Further evidence that it's all about now. If they don't win now, your aging quarterback is gone, your running back will start to get a little older, and your wide receiver may be more of a burden financially than he is right now. So the Giants are all in, guaranteed money, quarterback money for the first three years of the deal. So the Giants are all in to try to get another championship in the next two, three years, but it couldn't work. I don't care how good Barclays, you could tell me that Barclay was going to be the next Adrian Peterson times two. How is that gonna lead to championships if you don't have a wide receiver as dynamic as Beckham? Well, that's why you squeeze more out of your 37-year-old quarterback. That's why you invest with draft picks and money in the left side of your offensive line because you're trying to get more out of your quarterback. You now have the weapons to be an explosive offense, but it begins and ends with your wide receiver. Both sides, I don't know if you agree with me on this Don, could claim victory here. All right, so Beckham gets paid $60 million in the first three years. That's $20 million average per year. This is according to Josina Anderson. The new money average is 18 million plus. That's the new money average. The total average per year, because he's gonna make 8.5 this year, that's a deal that he's gonna live up to, is 16 million over the life of the deal. Yes, the new money makes him the highest paid wide receiver, but if you put in the 8.5, the Giants can claim victory, and also the Giants can claim victory and say, he wanted to be the highest paid player in football. That was never happening. So the key here is the three year 60 million because that makes him the highest paid wide receiver by plenty. And I will tell you what, if he's still a great player in three years, he's not gonna play years four and five. He'll sit out. Yeah, they'll redo it. They'll redo it. But I would think in three years, the complexion of the Giants will be completely different. Right. I mean, you might have to have a new quarterback. So you might, he might be gone because you just might be, that's when you just blow it up because that Eli is gonna be 40. So that's gonna be a completely different situation. But right now, I don't think the Giants are thinking about that. All right. Again, I know age is just the number, but when you have a 67 year old general manager, right? They're all in right now. I don't think anybody's thinking about even next year. It's about this year, trying to see if you can't win a championship and then you have next year because the fact that Eli still has another year left on his contract. You had Odell locked up. You don't have to pay Barkley anything for a little while. Same thing with Ingram, Sterling, Shepard, all those guys, you don't have to worry about them for a little while. But three years, nobody cares. They're thinking about now and maybe next year of trying to get another championship because that's gonna change ever. One more championship changes so much. That would be five for the Giants. That would be three for Eli. So that changes, one more is huge for this organization. And certainly that's the end game here over the next couple of years to try to get that. And when they hired Gettelman, which is what the Mets are gonna get into too, if they hire LaRocca, I think that's how you pronounce his name. He's 65 years old, you're gonna hire him as a GM. You are not going into a long-term thing because these guys are probably GM until their 70s, but early 70s, that's about it. So once they hired Gettelman, Gettelman was not gonna start a rebuild. He thought that what was there was doable. They improved the offensive line still, not dissatisfaction that running game has been zero. Other than that big breaking run by Barkley when he first touched the ball, Don, they, Stewart's been terrible, terrible. And you have to wonder if he has anything left in the tank. The offensive line hasn't been great. So all of these moves won't mean anything if the offensive line doesn't gel, but that's another story for another day. Well, once they hired Gettelman and decided to keep Eli game over, they had to keep Odell. Yeah, and I think the two years is it, right? Because honestly, Michael, if you're a betting man, how much are you gonna, what are the odds that Eli is gonna be on the two years left in this contract? He'll never sign another contract with the camp. I wouldn't think so. So it's about in the next two years that you've got Eli secured financially that you're gonna try to get another kick at the camp. That's what you're hoping for. And then when that's over, then they'll figure out the quarterback. They'll still have Barkley to build around. Odell will still have a time left on his contract. So I'm not saying they're gonna completely throw on the towel, but right now, this is to me all about Eli, it is. We all know how good Odell is. And from all the reports, Barkley is gonna be a stud, all right? So the question is, will all this help Eli? Because we've had a lot of excuses. I'm a big Eli guy. I could tell you about no running game. I could tell you about a battle offensive line. I could tell you about no weapons. That no longer exists anymore. You've just locked up your wide receiver, arguably the best wide receiver in the game. There's a good possibility that Barkley, by the end of his rookie year, might be in conversation, the best running back in the game. You just went out and got one of the best available left tackles in the game. There's no more excuses. Gotta go out there and get it done. Now, the defense may hurt you. Special teams may hurt you, but we cannot come on here on a Monday on the Michael K show and talk about how Eli or the offense failed them this year because they've got no excuses. This offense should absolutely pop. And this is also a positive with the Giants making this announcement today. And then you worry about Olivier Vernon, who, his ankle kept him out four weeks last year. And now it's the same ankle. High ankle sprain, which takes a long time. They're going to hope that he gets back for the first day. And this giant defense has not made any great strides during the preseason. So that was a negative coming into today that we would have talked about. But now it's going to be all about Odell because the offense is set, especially if the offensive line can gel. And that's a question that, I don't know if there's a sure answer, Don, who's not. But we know what Odell Beckham Jr. can do. While he's played, he's done stuff that no wide receiver has ever done in the history of the game. He is a special, transcendent talent who's a little wacky. But I think that Pat Shermer probably is the right coach for him. Number one, Koffman was probably too tough and ignored things that ate him up. McAdoo was clueless. And I think that Shermer's a little bit of both. He's got an old school mentality, but he has gotten to know Odell. He's said all the right things. Odell has done all the right things. And boom, he gets his money now. So he's a giant.