EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. -- Another week, another game with an Odell Beckham Jr. one-handed catch and touchdown. Another week in which he sets team and league records.
Beckham iced the New York Giants' 17-6 victory over the Detroit Lions on Sunday with a one-handed touchdown grab in the fourth quarter. He finished with six catches for 64 yards and the score, and now has 10 touchdown catches in his last 10 games.
Beckham has at least 10 touchdowns in each of his three professional seasons. He is the first player in NFL history with 80-plus catches and 1,000 yards receiving in each of his first three years.
And he expects more.
"I hate saying it like this and I hope it doesn't get taken wrong, but I'm very greedy with myself," Beckham said. "I expect more out of myself, no matter what it is. It's almost never enough. It's unfair for me to do that, but it's just how I've always been. It's never going to be enough for me, in a sense. I just need a way to find that balance."
When the Giants needed Beckham most Sunday he came through with his two biggest plays of the game. With 8:12 remaining in the fourth quarter, on third-and-10, quarterback Eli Manning hit Beckham for a 25-yard reception on a deep out pattern.
It wasn't a highlight-reel play, but it was the "biggest play" of the game, according to Beckham. It kept the drive alive with the Giants holding a tenuous 10-6 lead.
Moments later, Beckham reached out with his left hand near the goal line and the ball stuck like Velcro for a 4-yard touchdown.
"It just kind of happens," Beckham said of the one-handed grabs he's made famous ever since his catch against the Dallas Cowboys during his rookie year in 2014. "You practice it and practice it. That's why you practice right-hand layups and left-hand layups. It's just kind of -- I don't know."
These kinds of plays from the Giants star wide receiver may seem normal to him. They leave everyone else in awe, including his own quarterback.
"Yeah, it was a great catch," Manning said. "One-handed, that is what he can do, so that is not uncommon, but a great job going down and making that catch. It was a huge play. Getting seven points right there was obviously big, making it a two-score game -- so he made some big-time plays for us today, and it was good to get the touchdown right there."
Beckham and Manning have something working between them. Beckham has caught more touchdown passes from Manning (34) than any other player who has worked with the QB. The third-year receiver passed Plaxico Burress (33) on Sunday afternoon.
More important to Beckham, the Giants (10-4) are winning. They went 6-10 in each of his first two seasons. The team could double that two-year victory total and go from 12 to 24 after this year.
The Giants are on the verge of a clinching a playoff spot. A victory Thursday night in Philadelphia would do it.
"That's what you play for," Beckham said. "If I'm not mistaken, I mean I know I don't come here to play ... at the end of the day, each and every game you're going to get paid no matter what your performance was. But that is not OK with me. All of that stuff, I feel like I want to play enough legendary Sundays and the rest is going to take care of itself.
"I'm not here for anything else but to win games and be on a team full of ballers, everybody doing their thing. It's a great thing, a great feeling when it's that way."