“We have to talk about the elephant in the room: You know who you’re coming after,” Newton said of his celebrated predecessor during a roundtable discussion on Odell Beckham’s YouTube channel.

“You’re getting a dog.

You’re getting one of these ticked off dogs, too.

And I’m looking at the schedule and I’m like, ‘Who we playing.

“I had to count the days how long I was unemployed,” Newton said between cigar puffs?

“It was 86 nights — that’s almost three months — and I’m going through it and I’m like early on, people are going and getting signed and I’m looking at them and I’m like, ‘You can’t say I’m old because people older than me [are] getting signed.

You can’t say it’s about injury because people who were more injured than me are getting signed.

Newton, 31, has battled multiple injuries throughout his nine-year career, including an ankle injury that has lingered since college and was surgically repaired in 2014, concussions, a torn rotator cuff on his throwing shoulder that has required surgery twice and, most recently, a Lisfranc fracture he suffered during the third preseason game in 2019, the surgery from which he is still recovering.

“But there’s other people who put out s–tty film out there that are getting picked up

“I feel vindicated to some degree but I’m searching, I’m aiming at necks all year because at one point, I did feel and I still do feel like a part of me is left because I gave an organization everything,” he added

Odell Beckham nearly retired after gruesome Giants injury

Odell Beckham nearly retired after gruesome Giants injury