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Giants coach Coughlin defends Beckham Jr

UPDATE: ESPN’s Ron Jaworski wrongly tweeted about Beckham Jr.’s suspension, and as it happens, Beckham Jr.’s suspension was upheld in New York City today.

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Before Wednesday’s hearing on his appeal, Beckham used Twitter to apologize for his on-field behavior last week. I told him he can’t let stuff that people say get to you. I work hard to be great and accepting the Blessing of having the physical skills to play at this level brings the responsibility to conduct myself in a certain way on and off the field. “This is an important social issue”, Rivera said yesterday, in reference to the slur allegations.


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Beckham Jr. was assessed three personal fouls during the teams’ Week 15 matchup following multiple scuffles with Panthers cornerback Josh Norman, who reportedly was fined ,044 for his involvement in the scrums.

Beckham and Norman, who the Giants said had taunted the receiver, were involved in several skirmishes during the game in a showdown match-up of the two Pro Bowl players.

Beckham will miss the game Sunday night at Minnesota.

Kubiak said Manning will workout in the morning but won’t participate in practice.

Coughlin said he would not discuss Beckham and the Panthers further. He was wrong. There was no doubt about it. You’d like that didn’t happen. “For the purposes of this policy, “foreign objects” broadly encompasses any item that is neither intrinsic to the game nor necessary to conduct pregame drills and treat and prepare players for the game”. Since then, there has been a lot of talk about Panthers players (including Norman) menacing Beckham with bats before the game and taunting him with gay slurs, which puts his on-field meltdown into a slightly different light. The player never swung the bat, Wing said. They’re probably going to send me something about that… but I’m going to appeal it, and I’m going to get my justified case about the whole situation.

Wing said that during the pregame warmups, he saw a Panthers player, who according to various reports has been identified as Panthers defensive back Marcus Ball, a practice squad player, cross the 50-yard line, baseball bat in hand, and approach Beckham, though never swinging the bat at the receiver.

In his apology from the Giants’ website, Beckham made it clear that he was not trying to make any excuses, he just wanted to apologize for his behavior.

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The Panthers counted 12 Beckham-related incidents during the game in which he was the instigator, including 10 involving Norman.

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