"It bothered me because they never built around him and we were just drafting, but we were just drafting and not building an organization and a franchise. My frustration grew because it was another 5-11 and 5-11 and we were just never good. Even the year we were 11-5, the defense was holding teams to 10 points a game and we were only good because of the defense. My frustrations grew and I felt like they weren't growing and I had wanted more."

The Giants made the playoffs just one time during Beckham Jr.'s five years with the team, losing in the Wild Card Round to the Packers after the infamous boat photo came out.

In those five seasons combined, the Giants went 31-49, with over a third of those wins coming from that 11-5 season in 2016.

"I wasn't winning and I hated losing that bad. I was having great seasons, but I hated losing. I hated it, I hated it, and I feel like that's where I ran into the problems," Beckham Jr. said.

"I used to text Eli all the time, 'Bro, you're seventh on the list for greatest of all-time. Let's ... do it.' I would come to work every day and giving them everything that I had and then I felt like when I was the one pushing. ... I just felt like I was coming to an end of the road and I was pushing for something that wasn't really tangible. That was where it all just kind of went haywire for me."

The Giants had three coaches — Tom Coughlin, Ben McAdoo and Pat Shurmur — during Beckham Jr.'s tenure in New York, the last of which rubbed him the wrong way.

“I felt betrayed in a sense that this coach (Shurmur) tried to turn me against my brothers and my coaches and was telling the young guys to stay away from me because I’m not a good person or not a good team (player) or role model or this and that," Beckham Jr. said.

After a number of sideline incidents and off the field issues, the Giants traded Beckham Jr. to the Cleveland Browns for a first-round pick, third-round pick and Jabrill Peppers, despite having signed him to a five-year, $90 million extension the offseason before.

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