Odell Beckham Jr. and Tyler Boyd still have a lingering debate from Super Bowl 2022 to settle.
In an interview with NBC, Beckham claimed that if he didn’t tear his ACL against the Bengals that night, it would’ve been a game “where I catch 15 balls, maybe 250 yards.”
“People have no idea what I was actually gonna do that day,” Beckham told NBC.
“The game plan was for me. We would’ve beat ‘em 42-17.”
Boyd, though, replied on X with a simple three-word tweet: “Woulda coulda shoulda.”
Beckham offered a rebuttal on Instagram and wrote about how he has “the ring u coulda woulda shoulda had,” according to Yahoo! Sports.
That Super Bowl, which the Rams won, 23-20, in February 2022, and the ACL injury Beckham suffered, altered his career trajectory.
At the time, he’d found some stability with the Rams after a messy divorce from the Browns, which had acquired him from the Giants in March 2019.
Through the final seven games of the 2021 regular season, Beckham caught 27 passes for 305 yards and five touchdowns.
In the Super Bowl, Beckham opened the scoring with a 17-yard touchdown reception in the first quarter.
But with less than four minutes remaining in the second quarter, Beckham cut across the middle, dropped a pass from Matthew Stafford and crumpled to the ground.
Following knee surgery, Beckham missed the entire 2022 campaign, though he visited with the Giants, Cowboys and Bills near the end of the year — with a possible return for the playoffs looming.
Nothing materialized, though, and Beckham instead signed a one-year deal — with $15 million guaranteed — with the Ravens in April, selecting Baltimore as his destination ahead of a looming visit with the Jets.
Boyd, who caught five passes for 48 yards in the Super Bowl, and the Bengals have their sights set on another title shot this season, having faced the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC Championship Game in each of the last two years.
Boyd enters the 2023 season in the same spot he finished last year: as Joe Burrow’s No. 3 passing target, behind wideouts Ja’Marr Chase and Tee Higgins.
The 28-year-old Boyd pulled down 58 receptions on 82 targets last year, which was good for 762 yards and five touchdowns.
